Can we start a keyboard fund for Vico!? His must be burning up with this verbal storm!

I still read MGoBlog, even though much of Brian’s posts don’t interest me. It’s no fault of his own for covering michigan hockey or other stuff on michigan football (like recruiting) with some enthusiasm, but I’m just not his audience in that regard. I think Brian is at his best for a wide audience in ripping apart something or someone else. His deconstruction of Charlie Weis last year was, I think, the post of the year of any blog I’ve read for the 2007 season. Further, his back-and-forth with the Alabama blogs was epic. Basically, Brian called attention to how RichRod gets labeled duplicitous in his recruiting while Nick Saban oversigns by 7 or 8 players and gets rewarded as a “national recruiting champion”. Basically, the Alabama blogs bitched, but the broader story was, as follows: Brian is right and the Alabama blogs are petty and resorting to ad hominem attacks. It was comical how Brian kept putting forward evidence and facts and the Alabama blogs’ best response was to resort to vulgarities and name-calling. A few of my coworkers read that and looked to me for titty on the story knowing how much I hate michigan. My only response after (re)reading it (I knew about it from my own personal reading) was to tell them “Why would you look to me for support? He’s 100 percent right.”

I think the one non-Buckeye blog that I don’t miss a post of is Lake the Posts. High quality blog that is. Everyone else likes Sunday Morning QB. I like it just fine, but with my weird, region-centric interests and busy schedule, it’s not a regular of mine.

Sadly, their content had diminished over the past couple months, and they weren’t that “funny” anymore.

I used to follow Brian’s blog as frequently as mZone, but his blog has become increasingly “obtuse” to me, and reading it is laborious. Not to mention hundreds of comments for the most mundane of posts.

But in michigan’s current “Twilight Zone” of uncertainty, what can they say? While we in the Buckeye Nation have a bright and tangible football future, up north, they don’t even know what it means anymore. No attempt at empathy on my part, just reiterating: It’s good to be a Buckeye!

Any recommendations for replacement non-Buckeye blogs?

1) Amazing success, building on amazing success. Good gets better, better gets amazing. Kinda what everybody strives for, but rarely achieve.

2) Are earlier commitments better commitments? Pro’s and Con’s
Pros:
* Students are better able to focus on athletics/academics their senior year of HS.
* Coaching staff better able to focus on tasks at hand, instead of scrambling to fill roster.
* No sloppy seconds.
* Buckeye fans, such as myself, get really excited, and repeatedly wet themselves.

Cons:
* Something bad can happen. Decommitment, or worse, and at the worst possible time.
* Recruit actually defocuses during his senior year. Now what?
* A “late-bloomer” is boxed-out by a filled roster.
* Coaching changes can create instability amongst the committed recruits.
* Buckeye fans, such as myself, get really excited, and repeatedly wet themselves.

As an optimist, I am really liking the current state-of-affairs. As a pragmatist, I expect something will upset the applecart. We’ll see how it all plays-out, and hopefully deal successfully with any unexpected perturbations.

The Buckeyes should place a JV team in the MAC to help train them up. I want to see them all play. One team is not enough! Neither is just one beer, so …

:beer: :beer: :beer:

It’s good to be a Buckeye!

Honestly, Buckeyes or Pitt? Tough choice? That’s not playing very well, is it? It’s almost like being offered a knighthood, then telling the Queen you may need to wash your hair instead.

Corey Brown, a teammate of Dorian Bell who you might remember as holding an Ohio State flag and waving it in the background during Dorian’s presser, will be deciding this week and, apparently, choosing between the Buckeyes and — get this — Pitt. Can we count this one as a lock? Apparently the presser might come as early as tomorrow.

I’m counting this one as a lock, though I don’t have much credentials on the matter. For the record: Scout is too. Scout’s curiosity is not necessarily if he will be a Buckeye, but if he will be Buckeye commit no. 21 or if someone beats him to the punch and makes him no. 22.

Oh, a thought occurs: I’m pretty sure, at least with current rankings, that Jordan Whiting and Justin Green are Kentucky’s two best players (Rivals 100 #s 57 and 67 respectively). That has got to suck being a Wildcats fan and know that you have almost no chance with your state’s top players.

That might be my favorite trend in Ohio State recruiting now. Not only are other schools not entitled to Ohio’s best players, but Ohio State is making it to where other schools are not even entitled to their own state’s top players anymore.