Archives for February 2012

Flipping recruits has become a pastime for OSU coaches as they have had to make up serious ground since taking over after the regular season ended. When Coach Meyer hired his asst. coaches one of the biggest skills each of them needed was to be a good recruiter and to have a passion for recruiting. Coach Withers was hired as Co-DC and has already impressed in helping to land Armani Reeves and now he also has brought with him a recruit who was once a verbal to his old school North Carolina.

Jamal Marcus is a 6’3″ 245 lbs OLB/DL 4 star recruit from Durham, NC. Marcus is a one time commit of the tar Heels but opened up his recruiting after they named a new HC and Withers moved on to OSU. Marcus is ranked as high as the 16th best recruit at his position but all the sites agree he is a solid football player who could play either LB or DL depending on how his body continues to mature and grow. Marcus becomes the 26th commit in the 2012 OSU recruiting class.

Often it is said and rightfully so that a new coaches 1st recruiting class isn’t until they have had a full year on the job recruiting all of their own players. Urban Meyer is not just any coach though and in 2 months on the job he has done more to shape a recruiting class then most guys do in a full year. Today Coach Meyer and his staff will receive the fruits of their labor as many verbal commits will send in their letter of intent and go from recruits to members of The Ohio State University Buckeyes. Of special note today for the first time ever every Buckeye will sign a 4 year agreement instead of the usual 1 year renewable the SEC chose not to do the same shocking!!!

So as the day goes along we here at MOTSAG hope to keep a running tally of signed recruits and keep you all appraised of any shocking or not shocking commits who sign with or don’t sign with OSU. So check back here all day long for up to date info and all your Buckeye recruiting Info. We might also give you some other B1G news if any of it is news worthy.

Picture via Tony Gerdeman @GerdOzone

* 6:45 A.M. – Early signers already enrolled are Tyvis Powell, Josh Perry, Bri’onte Dunn, Michael Thomas, Jaboby Boren, and Cardale Jones.

* 7:00 A.M. – Ann Arbor Community College stole a verbal commit from Cincinnati Bearcats in Dennis Norfleet a 5’7″ 170 lbs Running Back. So much for wanting big RBs in Brady Hokes Pro-Style system.

* 7:10 A.M. – Armani Reeves and Camren Williams and Blake Thomas LOIs have been received via @markPantoni

* 7:14 A.M. – Pat Elfein is a Buckeye per @MarkPantoni

* 7:40 A.M. – Warren Ball, Taylor Decker, and Riquan Southward are all officially Buckeyes per @MarkPantoni

* 7:46 A.M. – Luke Roberts and David Perkins are Buckeyes per @MarkPantoni

* 7:51 A.M. – Noah Spence is 100% a Buckeye per @MarkPantoni

* 7:57 A.M. – Najee Murray is a Buckeye per @MarkPantoni

* 8:09 A.M. – Tommy Schutt is a Buckeye and scUM fans are mad per @MarkPantoni

* 8:15 A.M. – Frank Epitropoulos is a Buckeye per @LoriSchmidt

* 8:26 A.M. – Devan Bogard is a Buckeye per @MarkPantoni

* 8:34 A.M. – Adolphus Washington has an awesome name and is a Buckeye per @MarkPantoni

* 8:51 A.M. – Se’Von Pittman is a Buckeye and Pat Narduzzi just exploded via @MarkPantoni

* 10:04 A.M. – Joey O’Connor becomes the 23rd verbal to fax in his LOI and last of the known recruits to do so per @MarkPantoni

* 10:46 A.M. – Jamal Marcus a 4 star LB from North Carolina just committed to OSU will have a post on him later per @MarcGivlerBG

* 12:48 P.M. – Kyle Dodson a 4* OT from Cleveland has flipped from Wisconsin to Ohio State I will post on him later as well per @SYRmotag

That takes the class to 25 players fully committed with Coach Meyer and Ohio State still chasing 2 big time WRs in Stefon Diggs and Davonte Neal. Rumors are swirling he may land both of them and since he has landed every other player he has gone after who are we to doubt him. At this point this is a insanely great class that 2 months ago was poor at best. What this staff has done in 2 months in unimaginable. We will have more later on the entire class as well as write ups on Dodson and Marcus. We will keep you updated on where we are with Diggs and Neal as well.