I think your statement is a little incorrect. In the age of the 85 scholarship limit you really think people were offering Saddler just to get to Hale? You think all the other schools that offered only offered because they wanted Hale, but OSU was the only one to say no? That is just not true...schools can't afford to waste a scholarship like that. You think if Saddler tried to verbal to Virginia and Hale chose Pitt that Virginia wouldn't have taken him? Saddler had an impressive offer list because he is an electrifying player...both recruiting services had him as a 4-star (likely what will Brown will be too) and he had offers from the likes of Pittsburgh, West Virginia, Michigan, Virginia, Michigan State, Louisville, Purdue, Wisconsin, Oregon, etc. The kid probably had 30 offers to choose from. Sometimes we think OSU is some sort of rarified territory where they are the only staff that can afford to say "We offering you but not your friend." Plenty of schools evaluated Saddler and decided he was worthy of an offer. OSU already had their RB for last year and even after that had kids they rated higher than Saddler. He obviously did not fit the mold of what they were looking for. Whether or not Brown will is yet to be determined, but like Saddler he will evaluated on his own merit...regardless of what his situation is with Dorian Bell.
Sorry for the tangent...felt the need to respond to that...