How does OSU do it?

ajk4st8 · 04-06-2007, 07:08 PM

http://scout.scout.com/a.z?s=145&p=9&c=8&cfg=bb&yr=2008

psyclonebill · 04-06-2007, 07:10 PM

$$$$$$$

You think Callaret's deal a few years ago was really an isolated incedent?

Cyclone62 · 04-06-2007, 07:11 PM

My guess is booster money to the recruits. It seems to be a common theme at tOSU.

ajk4st8 · 04-06-2007, 07:13 PM

Haha they didnt get a SF! Only a 5 star PG, SG, PF and C

isu_bub · 04-06-2007, 07:14 PM

I've always had the inkling of dirty work at OSU....

Wait, it's not an inkling. They are dirty.

ajk4st8 · 04-06-2007, 07:15 PM

Its pretty apparent that their slap on the wrist for recruiting violations in the past hasnt changed much.

travman23 · 04-06-2007, 07:32 PM

Oh come on, Thad Matta is a heck of a recruiter. He got Oden and Conley last year. If you can land the country's top recruit it sure will help you in future classes. Plus making the championship is not going to hurt either...

ajk4st8 · 04-06-2007, 07:33 PM

What makes him a good recruiter if you think he is?

Cyclone62 · 04-06-2007, 07:34 PM

Originally Posted by travman23

Oh come on, Thad Matta is a heck of a recruiter. He got Oden and Conley last year. If you can land the country's top recruit it sure will help you in future classes. Plus making the championship is not going to hurt either...

Yes, he may be a good recruiter. That doesn't change the fact that boosters from tOSU are commonly found visiting with recruits and things of such ilk.

travman23 · 04-06-2007, 07:38 PM

OSU has a large athletic budget, big fan base, nice facilities and a great coach. Why wouldn't a top recruit at least consider going there?

You can play the boosters card all you want but I'm sure that stuff happens at some level even here at ISU as it does at other schools. I just mark this down as a jealous post. I'd love to get a recruiting class like that too but don't you think that people at other schools would say the same thing about us as you guys are "oh they have to be paying these kids under the table to have that good of a class."

Cyclone62 · 04-06-2007, 07:42 PM

Originally Posted by travman23

OSU has a large athletic budget, big fan base, nice facilities and a great coach. Why wouldn't a top recruit at least consider going there?

You can play the boosters card all you want but I'm sure that stuff happens at some level even here at ISU as it does at other schools. I just mark this down as a jealous post. I'd love to get a recruiting class like that too but don't you think that people at other schools would say the same thing about us as you guys are "oh they have to be paying these kids under the table to have that good of a class."

"Some level" and "at the same level" are two completely different things. I'm not saying that haven't earned getting to the level they are at, just that there is a lot of murmuring about booster/recruit interaction throughout the year for all sports at tOSU. If it happened at ISU, I wouldn't really feel good about the class if I knew we had to bend/break rules to get that class.

travman23 · 04-06-2007, 07:46 PM

Until any violations happen as far as any of us know they play by the rules just like the rest of us. You can rumor all you want on this but the fact is the same crap would be said about us probably if we landed a class like that and you would all be here defending the integrity of the program just like OSU fans would do if they read some of this stuff.

Sorry but for some reason this thread just hit a nerve because I hate when people try to downgrade other school's success and acuse them of being dirty when they have no solid, fool-proof evidence to back it up.

Cyclone62 · 04-06-2007, 07:51 PM

Sorry but for some reason this thread just hit a nerve because I hate when people try to downgrade other school's success and acuse them of being dirty when they have no solid, fool-proof evidence to back it up.

Just out of curiousity, how are you going to have that kind of evidence for boosters talking to a recruit? The recruit sure as heck isn't going to come forward with that kind of information.

Look, I'm not saying they can't get a class like that, just that it is rumored an awful lot about tOSU. I don't hear much about the Aggies or Texas doing it... What that means, I don't know. I just know that tOSU is more linked to booster/recruit interaction more than pretty much any other school.

CTAClone · 04-06-2007, 07:57 PM

Originally Posted by travman23

Until any violations happen as far as any of us know they play by the rules just like the rest of us. You can rumor all you want on this but the fact is the same crap would be said about us probably if we landed a class like that and you would all be here defending the integrity of the program just like OSU fans would do if they read some of this stuff.

Sorry but for some reason this thread just hit a nerve because I hate when people try to downgrade other school's success and acuse them of being dirty when they have no solid, fool-proof evidence to back it up.

Well Said.

arganbright2 · 04-06-2007, 11:13 PM

It also doesn't hurt that the athletes at Ohio State are treated like gods. I've heard stories of kids at the dining halls eating their dinner on the floor so the football players could sit in the seats.