This came across the wire yesterday, but the Monkey and I were unable to get it up in a post for various reasons. I’m sure you’ve seen it already, but here it is again: J.B. Shugarts and Mike Adams, future anchors to the OSU offensive line, were in a bit of trouble.

Operative word being were. That’s the way it looked earlier. Now, as details emerge, it looks like much ado about nothing. Adams’ charges were dropped yesterday and Shugarts, who has his pretrial tomorrow, should have his charges dropped as well.

Phew.

In other news, the Monkey pointed me to this late last week. We do have a rather strict rule of not mentioning HWSHBN, but this was interesting. I don’t know the full story about this site, but the Monkey claims it’s legit. Does anyone else have any more background here? Don’t worry about being censored for mentioning his name, but we do prefer to that your refer to him as HWSHBN.

Tim May mentioned this yesterday, Ohio State is going after another football scion, Nick Montana (the son of Joe Montana).

Currently unranked by the major recruiting sites, Nick is drawing interest from schools all over the map. He’s scheduled to be in Columbus this weekend.

The possibilities are limitless — Montana to Carter never happened in the NFL. Could it happen in 2011? Has a son of an NFL QB ever thrown a pass to the son of an NFL WR?

If that wasn’t already obvious.

Alex Boone arrested in California

Boone, 21, was taken into custody late Sunday for investigation of resisting arrest after Orange County sheriff’s deputies responded to a disturbance call outside of a home in Aliso Viejo.

I guess we can’t have good news without some bad news.

I feel a little weird doing this, but I figured I’d throw up a quick post as we all prepare to see a teenager make the most important decision of his athletic life. Does he choose suicide or happiness? Stay tuned!

We don’t do a lot of recruiting posts here at MotSaG, but it’s something I follow somewhat regularly. Is this something readers are interested in? Would you be interested in reading more than just the high profile recruiting news (like Boyd’s announcement)?

While we wait for the announcement, I’d like to point everyone to this article on The Cleveland Fan (h/t podux) on Terrelle’s performance in the Fiesta Bowl. It should shed some light on some of those times he pulled up and went out of bounds on a few of his runs when he had clear running room ahead of him. I think most people (us included) noticed something seemed “off” about the way he was playing. This makes more sense.

In fact, this gives me even more encouragement about what kind of player Pryor is and is going to be.

Update: 10 TV is reporting that Boyd has decided on Clemson. Dom Tiberi is “shocked.” Of course, this is like his 23rd commitment, so he could always change his mind on signing day next week.

Life goes on (covered in snow)…

Brian Hartline has announced he’s going pro and Ray Small and Kurt Coleman are not.

My initial thoughts are that if the rumors of Hartline discontent with Pryor are true, then that’s the only choice he had. Being best friends with Todd Boeckman and seeing him lose his starting QB job to an upstart freshman certianly could strain a relationship with said freshman. As to Coleman staying, I’m happy. He was definitely coming into his own at the end of the season and played a whale of a game in the Fiesta Bowl. With Small, I’m guess I’m ambivalent at this point. We’ve seen the flashes but not the consitency. I guess we get to have one more year to see what he’s got.

What are your thoughts?

Update: As ahoops pointed out in the comments, Donald Washington has also declared for the draft. I was gone all day yesterday and didn’t get a chance to post anything. I’m not sure Washington made the right choice, an extra year of playing would have benefitted him. I think someone gave him some bad advice. Good luck to him, he’s going to need it.

And in a somewhat OSU related tidbit, Mark Sanchez declared for the draft as well, setting up an interesting story if Mustain wins the starting QB job come next September. He’s not exactly the biggest OSU fan.

ESPN is reporting that Beanie Wells has declared his intention to join the NFL draft.

More details and commentary later.

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