Ohio Pete

Somehow... Zook's ability to bring in great recruits to a historically bad program makes me suspect that he's not being 100% clean. Hey, I didn't know Loyd Carr was on this board. Welcome to the board Loyd.

If he's your lab partner in Biology, I'm pretty sure you are allowed to talk to him. I'm sure this is just CYA to prevent the appearance of impropriety.

Committed to Michigan according to SI.com:

Committed to Stanford: (from SI.com)

I imagine your post here answers this question. Supporters of college programs may be violating recruiting rules by emailing or texting or otherwise communicating (myspace, facebook, etc.) with recruits. It might also be a little weird for 50 year-old man to ask to be a 17 year-old's friend.

Ha ha, is that bad editing or is that some stinky bait like on the old rsfc newsgroup days? About once a year there'd be a post like "Hokies - Are They Still the best West Virginia Team?" and every time someone would earnestly explain that Virginia Tech was in Blacksburg, Virginia not West Virginia:

Perhaps it is based on how they did in the game against WVU. We could speculate for days, or someone could RTFA: By John Antonik for MSNsportsNET.com July 2, 2007 ESPN.com’s Ivan Maisel recently offered us his version of college football’s 100 iconic moments, rolling out 138 years worth of history in five days. Recruits are ranked. The History Channel has the show The Most. If they can come up with lists, why can’t we? Over the next three weeks we will reveal the 50 greatest college football players, the 20 greatest coaches and the 25 best teams West Virginia has faced on the gridiron. Of course many of the choices are obvious. Pitt’s Tony Dorsett abused the Mountaineers for four years. Same goes for Larry Csonka. Joe Paterno, Jock Sutherland, Tom Osborne and Bobby Bowden rank among the greatest coaches in NCAA history. Miami, Pitt, Nebraska, Syracuse and Penn State all won national championships during years it faced West Virginia. However, some of our picks weren’t quite so obvious. Our criteria were simple: the players, coaches and teams had to not only achieve fame but also perform well against West Virginia. That eliminates many great players like Franco Harris, John Mackey, Michael Irvin and Barry Sanders who had exceptional playing careers but had ordinary games against West Virginia. Is this a definitive list of the very best players, coaches and teams West Virginia has faced? Probably not. We’re sure you’ll come up with many more. So without further delay, let the arguing begin!

Oh, thanks for clarifying. I was confused on this too. But here are the folks from Scouts Inc

No, he'll be getting that awesome NFL pension.

What do you mean by that? Get out of his schollie for family reasons and then conveniently go play for USC? Could that be what he means?

Funny, I just came across a similar thread on one of the Ohio State boards wondering why it seemed like all of the assistants are just hanging around for a cup of coffee before moving on. The consensus was just what you said; you can't begrudge an assistant moving on to a head coaching job. It is certainly better than no one being interested in hiring them. Oh, and curiously this guy popped in the GIS: William Myles, Jr., Associate Athletic Director, came to Ohio State from the University of Nebraska in 1977 as an assistant football coach to Woody Hayes. At Nebraska he coached both the offensive and defensive line, and linebackers. He also represented Nebraska in Ohio for recruiting football players.

Psst, Wrestling.

This kid is camping everywhere. After the Ohio State camp, he went to Penn State and got an offer from them as WR. AFAIK Ohio State still has not offered and still wants him as CB. Supposedly Tressel told him he was the #1 CB prospect in Ohio. Anyway, whatever position, the kid looks like a stud: Pitt Combine pictures Might pick up another star or two by the end of the year.

Carr is due to retire soon and from what I have heard, the more time spent with him the less you like him, so maybe that extended Michigan visit will have a different result than expected.

Here is the old thread on the topic: Recruiting vs Success on the Field

Year to year it is a low correlation, but a correlation none the less. I have the spreadsheet somewhere and there is a thread about this from the fall, but I could not find it just now. I did come across this interesting post from ETR last year: Recruiting matters; just not enough for me to pay to read about it.

An article on Scout this morning: http://michigan.scout.com/2/655961.html He will probably be a Wolverine within a week. FROM ARTICLE: "As far as announcing a college decision, McGuffie said: "I'll be ready to say something when I get home." When asked for a timetable, he said: "I'll probably get something set up for next week." So I can get a close up view of him getting Waterboy'ed then?

Well maybe the player had 3 NT rings.

I guess so. For some reason that was the nickname used when I read about him. No one else saw that? Does someone named Buddy really need a nickname?

I may be a little obsesive. No worries. You should see MY recruiting spreadsheet.

They don't seem like the type of coaching staff that would put up with too much crap regardless of skill level. That being said, I think Vondrae will be just fine.

It may actually help. Southern Cal can only take 20-30 guys a year. A guy who isn't recruited by Southern Cal might not be too interested in the other local schools if he's totally enamored with them. For instance, what Southern Cal fan would want to play for UCLA? Anyway, just a thought.

Sounds like this guy's strategy for coaching football. With limited time and talent, it becomes awfully difficult to do much more than that.

I think they (and most other schools) over recruit and then worry about it when/if all the borderline guys make it so he might not be using a spot until he actually qualifies.

That's a pretty good trick if you can pull it off.