Ohio Pete

After last night, I'm pretty sure he could help the basketball team too, even if that isn't one of his sports.

I'll be interested to see the combine numbers for T. Pryor and the safety from USC (whose name escapes me) in a few years. When they were hyping that USC-OSU game last year, they kept talking about how both of those guys run 4.2-4.3 40s.

BTW aren't these the same reporters who said the Rams would definitely be trading to get Michael Vick as their QB?

There are a few examples I can think of: - Julius Peppers played in the Final Four for North Carolina. He quit his senior year to focus on football, but was an important part of one of the best teams in the country for a couple of years. - Charlie Ward did the same thing, won the MNC, and then ended up in the NBA. I guess the question will be if he actually has the talent (and desire) to do it. For the best athletes it is certainly possible.

4.63 number was from the US Army National Combine at which he had the 3rd fastest 40. He also had vertical leap of 35" at the event which tied for top 10. A lot of the top athletes do not have 40s listed which likely means they ran and were disappointed with the slow track so they chose to not have the time reported.

It has been this staffs MO to not encourage that type of spur-of-the-moment decision. Obviously the Nebraska kids (and maybe Dylan Admire) are different, but guys from other States who get caught up in the moment and try to commit have been told to take some time to think it over. So I wouldn't expect too much this weekend but maybe a few within a week.

Yeah that would help the Rams, but which team is going to give them 2 players for the right to pay one player $40 million dollars? Basically the pay scale for the top picks is broken right now, and that's why you rarely see those picks swapped. Too much of the team's salary cap number gets tied up in one guy and if that guy isn't a QB or a OT, they're screwed. The other scenarios: - They take Suh, stink again and get Jake Locker next year. (This gives them the 2 best players, but also costs the most money.) - Draft a QB and get a DT at the top of the 2nd round in a draft that is loaded with DTs (another reason no one's trading up). I could see them going either way, but drafting entirely on need and giving a mid 1st round talent (Bradford or Clausen) #1 pick money is going to bite them in the end.

Good grief, Too Tall Jones was 6'9". The tallest players currently in the NFL are around 6'9". Quite correct to note that any growth jeopardizes his chance of playing football much longer.

The time listed is whatever the kid reported. They could literally tell them anything. However, there are several combines and camps at which many players get their time record electronically. You can find this information for a lot of kids. Here's NIKE Combines pitch:

It is amazing they haven't pulled this off yet. I get that there aren't as many TV screens, but I think it would be a more popular add outside of the Big 12 than the Big 10 network is.

Is Lee even playing this Spring? Not according to this: So yeah, green jerseys will be off this Spring because no one has proven anything, but lets not read too much into that.

This has been widely mis-reported (Northwestern grads). The Big 10 is largely made up of graduate research institutions. UNL fits in quite well. It's actually Notre Dame which does not meet the academic profile (but the Big Televen will compromise their principles for that cash). And another thing, a lot of the speculation has been based on adding a team in a population center which the reporters believe would get the Big 10 Network channel added to the base package on the local cable channels. Well, the Big 10 Network had trouble getting added to the base package in Columbus, Ohio. Why the heck would St. Louis and Kansas City be slam dunks if Missouri was added?

I expect the offense to reflect the talents of the QB who is operating it. If it doesn't it might be time to re-evaluate just exactly what we are doing. In the late 90s Tenn competed for a national championship with drop-back QB (Manning) and won one with a dual threat guy (Tee Martin) so this thought that we have to have a certain type of QB is flawed.

Sounds like there are some issues between the helmet and chin strap. (There are also some issues in Miami.) I wouldn't be surprised to see him re-surface at KSU.

Seems like you could go to a good used book store (Antiquarian in Omaha) or search online (eBay?) for the old recruiting newsletters and magazines. Good luck.

The reasoning may be faulty. He says he expects them to be on the field together for the Wildcat, but I think T Mart takes those wildcat snaps next year.

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Anytime you have a 5'11" WR with 4.85 speed fall into your lap you got to take him.

As far as bias, he had Texas guys jumping all over him for linking to an article which noted that Texas didn't recruit Seantrel Henderson. Apparently they're a little sensitive down there.

I think he was far better than the usual Mark May/Lou Holtz crap.

Here is a pretty decent article on Texas' needs for 2011: http://www.statesman.com/sports/longhorns/early-look-at-horns-recruiting-needs-for-2011-214879.html Basically 1-2 RBs and a lot of OL and S.

Did the Rivals story have much more to add?