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I think that the quotes by Tressel definitely carry weight with regard to the perceptions of signing day decisions. Notice how OSU went down dramatically on the "recruiting websites", rivals and insiders respectively- not even top ten on insiders, yet Lemming, for all his faults still kept us in his top 5.
It's almost as if they were assuming we'd get Bryant, Anderson and Jarrett all along. But something is definitely rotten in the state of Denmark -- err-- make that the state of my residence, Florida, more specifically, South Fla. These kids are too smart about recruiting as it has become a huge part of their way of life. Football is their way out of poverty and the path to prosperity and they know it all too well. They've got the recruiting game down and it just seems to me that kids all across the nation know that if they take their time to decide their stock will rise continually; ie what if Mitchum, Ginn, and Freeman had waited until NLOID to make a decision how much more press would each of them have gotten? Probably lots.
I've got a pretty well thought out article here: He can play, so who needs character? about Willie Williams who waited until NLOID and it pretty much made me think that I'd much rather have a kid in the OSU program who did anything but wait until signing day to pick the Bucks.
If you don't want to read the link, let me just suffice it to say that he's a delinquent and there is a reference to K2, the "solja" in a not-so-positive tone (at least in my estimation). This is rare ink for Florida since the papers are usually UM's lap-dogs, IMHO.
It's almost as if they were assuming we'd get Bryant, Anderson and Jarrett all along. But something is definitely rotten in the state of Denmark -- err-- make that the state of my residence, Florida, more specifically, South Fla. These kids are too smart about recruiting as it has become a huge part of their way of life. Football is their way out of poverty and the path to prosperity and they know it all too well. They've got the recruiting game down and it just seems to me that kids all across the nation know that if they take their time to decide their stock will rise continually; ie what if Mitchum, Ginn, and Freeman had waited until NLOID to make a decision how much more press would each of them have gotten? Probably lots.
I've got a pretty well thought out article here: He can play, so who needs character? about Willie Williams who waited until NLOID and it pretty much made me think that I'd much rather have a kid in the OSU program who did anything but wait until signing day to pick the Bucks.
If you don't want to read the link, let me just suffice it to say that he's a delinquent and there is a reference to K2, the "solja" in a not-so-positive tone (at least in my estimation). This is rare ink for Florida since the papers are usually UM's lap-dogs, IMHO.
