Exactly. Explosive athletes are nice and we might need to look into amping up recruitment and not limit ourselves, but “grinders” usually takes on an unnecessary negative stigma in college football recruiting evaluations. Just in reading BuckeyePlanet’s message boards, it seems there was some uneasiness about Homan receiving such an early offer when there are obvious parameters to his athleticism*. But like you said, I’m all for having hard-working kids whose academic eligibility I’ll never have to question. That, and I love having people on the roster who aspire to play for Ohio State.

* To their credit, BP’s recruiting board is never negative and they never bag on a recruit. They’ll pose questions about dilemmas but they never rag on the recruit in question. I don’t want to devalue their effort in keeping it clean in their recruiting discussions.

On Boyd, though: I’m aware of the conversation that his decision not only cost us one recruit (himself), but two (Boucher). But in anticipation for Terrelle Pryor committing somewhere else (unlikely as I thought it was), I consigned myself to a nonchalant mentality of it ultimately being their decision of where they want to grow/mature for the next 4 years. It’s their life, not mine. If anything, Boyd saved me from writing a helluva long BKAB featre

One more comment, in passing, about QB recruitment. I wasn’t too surprised that Boyd committed to where he did, I think it was a matter of geography. Of course, as a young lad, he was throwing commitments arouind like confetti. I’m not disappointed that the OH kid turned down tOSU to stay with Miami commitment; he made a decision and stuck with it. Good for him.