Classof61.....I have a question for you

Flipper · Post by **Flipper** » Fri Feb 09, 2007 9:40 pm

Screw ESPN...they aren't any more valid than any other service.

I think Brown, Dodge, Geter, Hodges, Stanley, Ransom and Hodges will be really good players here. The DB from NJ by way of harmony Prep has some nice tools also.

Lord_Byron · Post by **Lord_Byron** » Sat Feb 10, 2007 7:32 am

Flipper wrote:I'm not saying OH=FL as much as I'm saying that the competition for players is such that we cannot afford to view ourselves as a Ohio only school. (I'm not suggesting that you think that either). We need to go wherever we can find athletes that will help us compete in the MAC.

We lost on a number Ohio kids we wanted. We got a some Florida kids that we wanted. Maybe next yearwe'll get more Ohio kids than Florida kids...

I think about it as the psychology of an 18 year-old kid who wants to feel important. Their friends are being recruited by tOSU, FSU, Miami, Urbie U.

Do they stay in-state and play at what they may perceive as a "2nd tier" D-1A program, or go a thousand miles away to a school that recruited them "nationally"?

It may work both ways for Florida or Texas kids coming to Ohio, and Ohio kids going to schools outside the MAC.

Schadenfreude · Post by **Schadenfreude** » Sat Feb 10, 2007 10:29 am

Warthog wrote:(I am not advocating one over the other. Just interested in other's thoughts on this issue)

Well, I don't think Bowling Green goes to Florida with any intention of standing in line behind Florida International and Florida Atlantic.

So that's two down, five to go.

Moreover, I don't think it's out of the question to get kids down there who could have played at Central Florida or South Florida.

Ask yourself: Can we land kids in Ohio who could play at Cincinnati? My answer: Hell, yes.

Stir in the fact that Florida probably produces more talent per capita, and that it's a bigger state, and I like the fact that we are poking around down there.

Flipper · Post by **Flipper** » Sat Feb 10, 2007 10:44 am

Per Brandon...if there's a Florida kid that UF people don't want but think is a player...they'll call BGSU.

jg4242 · Post by **jg4242** » Sat Feb 10, 2007 11:05 am

Warthog wrote:
Flipper wrote:The same is true for Ohio...there are 8 division 1A programs and a fairly succesful div 1AA school in Youngstown State.

So, we need to get players where we can get players.
But their is only one major (BCS) school in Ohio. Florida has four plus a Conf USA school. From a recruit's view, you might say that is five schools higher in the pecking order than us. In Ohio there is just one, then all the other MAC schools on the same level.

Not true. Cincinnati is now in the Big East. Though who knows where their program will go with Dantonio gone to Michigan State...