There is a good bit of chatter out there about Urban Meyer and a posible future at Ohio State. I have argued that Ohio State is the one job that he would leave Florida for. Home state, first coaching job was in this state, first college job was at Ohio State. I think it is possible. I now would say it was possible.

I think he could be done. With what is not coming out about his heart condition I think he is odds on to never coach again. It is now coming out that he has had more visits to the hospital with chest pains since the first one that we are aware of. Before you ask, yes, the first visit was chest pains. You have to believe that cutting it back was considered. As much as this guy loves coaching you have to think options were explored that would allow him to keep

Now that I have recovered from the shocking news that Urban Meyer has resigned, my thoughts go to the Buckeyes. I doubt any program outside of Florida itself is more impacted by this decision than the Buckeyes.

We have always heard about Texas with Jordan Hicks. My own sources say that Florida is the team the Buckeyes were most likely to lose Shaw to. Charlie Strong leaves, now Meyer leaves. Don't tell me this kid is still going to Florida. If he was that committed to Florida that

It is game week. Not to mention I have to get back to posting daily and stopping in several times a day as there are mischief makers out there that can't be allowed to get away with controlling the flow of information.

I want to touch on something that gives you some insight into just how important recruiting close to home is. Just how basic it is but how important. If you are not aware of the Cordale Scott situation, he has left Illinois and transferred to Toledo. For those that don't remember, he was the big athlete from Glenville who is the only Glenville player in the Tressel era to have a scholarship offer from the Buckeyes and chose to go elsewhere. I am going to go out on a limb and based on his current situation I bet he would make a different decision today. One of the etched in stone rules of recruiting is, recruiting is local. Most players come from instate.

Is there anybody in Buckeye Nation who is not happy see the back of Ray Small? Once again this kid has put this football team in a bad spot. He is suspended for the Rose Bowl game. I have said time and time again that you will not find a more likable kid than Ray Small but this continued inability to do the right thing, to always always always make the wrong decision has left such a bad taste in my mouth that I cannot bring myself to smile about the personable young man that I remember from when he was being recruited.

The question now is, what does the staff do about replacing a solid third receiver, one with the potential to be star, and more importantly a top drawer kick returner?

We started the season with Taurian Washington as the slot receiver because of another incident of bad behavior from Small. That lasted a short time as Washington dropped more balls than he caught. He was given another chance later in the year where he again dropped an easily catchable ball. I have not seen him on the field since. Some are adamant that he will leave the program. Others say he is staying. The same can be said of the next guy on the list, Lamaar Thomas. I cannot recall the last time I saw him on the field other than special teams. With Duron Carter not an option, one of the two is going to be the third receiver in any set. A good game means he is likely to return, whichever one it is.

I wonder what is going to happen with Keith Wells. You have to believe the staff is ready to see him off too. They made a commitment to him. Redshirted him to put some distance between him and the stacked defensive end depth chart. I think they expected the arrangement to be a two-way street. Wells never had grade problems until he came here. He

We have a new Buckeye. Columbus Marion-Franklin quarterback Verlon Reed made it official with a verbal to the Buckeyes. Notice I did not say athlete. Reed is coming in as a quarterback. I think we will see him stay there. I have taken some time this morning to look over Reed. You can take a look yourself at ScoutingOhio.com:  http://scoutingohio.com/index.php/view-profile.html?task=userProfile&user=1656&name=Verlon.Reed

I will tell you what I see. I see a player who is clearly a pass first quarterback. Unlike so many athletic quarterbacks, Reed is as comfortable in the pocket as he is outside of it. In fact, when getting adequate protection he is content to sit back there. That means he is setting his feet and throwing the ball. Another thing I notice about him is the accuracy. I was looking at the much overrated Devin Gardner this morning too. He is not an improved player mechanically and his accuracy is mediocre at best. Another thing, Buckeye fans. The number

It has been awhile since we have talked about the size of this class. The immortal Holmes said, ".....when you have excluded the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth." I made the point months ago that you can't recruit on maybe. They have to know, and I am going to show you why. First, I want to note that we are looking at a mimimum of 19. We have one announced transfer. There has to be at least two other players leaving the program to get to 19.

What we re seeing at three different positions shows why you have to know. Look at defensive tackle. We brought Hankins in. We would not bring him in right now knowing he is likely to verbal with Floyd still out there unless we could take both. The same goes with James and Henderson. There has been this buzz for the longest time that we would only take two OLs in this class. That boggles the mind, but that is not what this post is about. Henderson is more highly prized than James and things look good with Henderson. With Norwell onboard, if there was no chance to take three, the staff would try to push James until as late as possible. Get as good a read on Henderson as possible before bringing James in.

LaMarcus Joyner shocked the recruiting world, more specifically the Ohio State Buckeyes recruiting world, by issuing a verbal commitment to Florida State on the very day Jim Tressel was supposed to be making an in-home visit. Ironically, it was a visit that prompted speculation that it would be the Buckeyes who ended the day with a verbal from Joyner. What happened?

If you have been coming to this blog regularly, you will recall that until recently I was a skeptic. One of the etched in stone recruiting rules is, recruiting is local. Look at the rosters of any college in the country and you will see that most of the players are from instate, and the vast majority from inside the region. Out of state recruiting is a very hard thing to pull off. Look at how few top players from the state of Ohio leave the state. When I offered skepticism about Joyner, fans countered with Joyners own words, that he loved Ohio State. My response was yes, but he loved Florida State too and Talahassee is a lot closer to home

This has been as turbulent a recruiting season as I can remember. The board has changed so many time. The way it looks right now any Buckeye fan has to be looking forward to National Signing Day.

Who we have already qualifies as a top 15 class. I don't care where anybody else ranks us. I don't think several players are getting their proper respect like David Durham. I don't know how anyone can watch his film and not see a four-star player. How we finish this class should push us into the top ten for sure and I think there is an argument for top five should this class

What a weekend. I will talk about the games if I see enough interest from fans but I want to focus on the talent from this weekend.

The best player I saw this weekend was Dominique Brown. Before the season I said the best athlete in Ohio was Deron Brown from Akron North. He was the freak of freaks in Ohio this year. He is in such a bad situation gradewise that you have not heard much about him. I think we may have another contender. I saw Brown late in the year and was very impressed. Seeing him again showed a player that was even better. What he is can be, the sky is the limit. Big powerful kid with explosive speed and the attitude of a warrior. They were showing shots of him on the sidelines. The intensity of his smile was something that sent chills down my spine. Kinda like those Lawrence Taylor sidelines shots we see every now and then. Makes you wonder if someone should call security. He loves to play football. I see a safety who

The state finals are here. Two days of high school football nirvana. That has never been more true than this year when there are so many great match-ups.

The headline game for Friday is the division three championship game between Youngstown Cardinal Mooney (14-0) versus Columbus St. Francis DeSales. Some are not as excited about this match-up as I am especially after seeing Mooney run roughshod over a talented Steubenville Big Red team in the state semifinals. For a smashmouth guy like me it was a thing of beauty watching Mooney put on a clinic in offensive line play. They are big and have a great back heaeded to West Virginia in Braylon Heard. He lit up Steubenville last week. It was over 200 yards rushing and it might have been over 300. He picked up alot of it behind outstanding senior tackle Eric Franklin, a player I would not mind seeing a late offer to should