As with all these rant type posts that say rant at the front. If that isn't your bag, you probably best move along. No harm meant, but some sentiments can't be contained in traditional King's English.
Maybe you're a recruitnik. I used to be, I used to be more worried about making sure we had the "best" players coming in the door than about winning football games. Maybe you're not interested in recruiting at all and all that matters to you is that we have players and coaches who can win games. I've gravitated to this philosophy over the past couple of years. I don't care how many offers a kid has. Can he play winning Big Ten football, this is the paramount question.
Either way, there's some hot, steaming bullshit in Columbus this weekend. You see, while Luke Fickell and his staff are preparing for the Urban Meyer bowl against Florida on New Year's Day. Urban Meyer and his staff are out hitting the recruiting trail. The below is a list of official visits taking place this weekend, shamelessly stolen from the Ohio State rivals site.
Maybe you're a recruitnik. I used to be, I used to be more worried about making sure we had the "best" players coming in the door than about winning football games. Maybe you're not interested in recruiting at all and all that matters to you is that we have players and coaches who can win games. I've gravitated to this philosophy over the past couple of years. I don't care how many offers a kid has. Can he play winning Big Ten football, this is the paramount question.
Either way, there's some hot, steaming bullshit in Columbus this weekend. You see, while Luke Fickell and his staff are preparing for the Urban Meyer bowl against Florida on New Year's Day. Urban Meyer and his staff are out hitting the recruiting trail. The below is a list of official visits taking place this weekend, shamelessly stolen from the Ohio State rivals site.
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| If this was a whole recruiting class you'd be set to win a Big Ten title. |
I don't fault Meyer for this, as a football coach your job is to win football games. To do that it is your responsibility to leverage every advantage available to you. However, if you may recall, this is a program on probation for fucking cheating. Where is the oversight? This is like Meyer calling up and being all "Hai guyz, since I cant use drugs, cars or tats as recruiting tools anymore, what if I had extra coaches instead?" The answer should have been a laugh, long and resonant, with perhaps some guffawing. This, followed by a click and a dial tone in Urban's ear.
None of this touches on the fact that Meyer IS the coach of OSU now. While Meyer has not coached a down in the Big Ten, it does seem fair to suggest that Meyer will be an upgrade. So, here's the lesson to be learned. Build your program up by combining success with cheating, lie about the cheating, fire the coach who knew about the cheating and lying, hire a better coach and then allow them to temporarily have TWO staffs. That's crap.
Am I jealous? Are these sour grapes? You're damned right. Anything that causes me to side with Dave Brandon is a powerful evil indeed. So a mock congratulations to OSU, may your Urban Meyer tenure be an adventure.
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