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Recruiting targets - Why not offer the national top 50?

Written by Duane Long | 27 May 2009

[quote=Ron Krumm]I understand the we have limited scholarships this year, but if we want Ohio State to be the best, we have to recruit the best. You don't go into a state that you may or may not get many recruits from, and offer the second or third best player at a position. If your not going to recruit the best at a position, why waste the time, money and effort. Why doesn't Ohio State have offers out to evry kid rated in the top 50 in the country. Aren't WE worthy of consideration. I have said it for years, and I will continue to say it, If Pete Carroll can recruit New Jersey, Maryland, DC, why doesn't Jim Tressel. Why can't Ohio State get the same number of early commits as Texas. If a kid doesn't want to come to Ohio State, find as good a player that does want to come. This year is a good example of a down year in Ohio high school football. If Ohio State type talent isn't here, Don't offer them. If you only have 16 scholarships, offer the BEST players available to fill those scholarships.[/quote]


It is a time problem. They do not have the time to put into recruits that are not showing interest. That has been good part of the problem with the recruiting effort this year. The staff pursuing players who are not coming this way. Look at how the recruiting board has changed since we started on the class of 2010. Too much time spent on players who were not seriously considering us early on. Look at tight end. We have a couple of national level kids in Ohio. We did not get into the fight for one, Alex Smith, and waited too late to get involved with Welch. I don't know if we could have gotten Welch. I think he was Notre Dame all the way. I think we could have made an impression Smith. We sat back and let UC convince Smith that he wanted to play in that offense. We never even made a pitch. If a coach is spending any time on the phone with a kid that is not interested when he could be on the phone with a kid at least open to the conversation, it is a wasted opportunity to help this football program. There are limits to how much time there coaches can spend with recruits. We want them to be ones we have a legitimate shot at.
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