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By tj wilkins

July 30, 2008 5:43 PM | Link to this

jim tressel takes 3 star athletes and makes them all americans! pete has the warm weather and hot girls in his corner and he comes away with 5 star athletes year after year, but has he taken a 3 star athlete and turned them into an all american, or a 1st round draft pick? i can’t think of anyone. AJ hawk was a 3 star linebacker coming out of high school and by the end of his junior year with the buckeyes he was the best linebacker in the nation. And its the same way with jenkins and Laurinaitis

By tj wilkins

July 30, 2008 5:04 PM | Link to this

jim tressel takes 3 star athletes and makes them all americans! pete has the warm weather and hot girls in his corner and he comes away with 5 star athletes year after year, but has he taken a 3 star athlete and turned them into an all american, or a 1st round draft pick? i can’t think of anyone. AJ hawk was a 3 star linebacker coming out of high school and by the end of his junior year with the buckeyes he was the best linebacker in the nation. And its the same way with jenkins and Laurinaitis

By tj wilkins

July 30, 2008 5:04 PM | Link to this

jim tressel takes 3 star athletes and makes them all americans! pete has the warm weather and hot girls in his corner and he comes away with 5 star athletes year after year, but has he taken a 3 star athlete and turned them into an all american, or a 1st round draft pick? i can’t think of anyone. AJ hawk was a 3 star linebacker coming out of high school and by the end of his junior year with the buckeyes he was the best linebacker in the nation. And its the same way with jenkins and Laurinaitis

By tj wilkins

July 30, 2008 5:04 PM | Link to this

jim tressel takes 3 star athletes and makes them all americans! pete has the warm weather and hot girls in his corner and he comes away with 5 star athletes year after year, but has he taken a 3 star athlete and turned them into an all american, or a 1st round draft pick? i can’t think of anyone. AJ hawk was a 3 star linebacker coming out of high school and by the end of his junior year with the buckeyes he was the best linebacker in the nation. And its the same way with jenkins and Laurinaitis

By ROB BOYER

July 16, 2008 1:22 PM | Link to this

There is a great tendency to comcoursepare records for great college coaches. The natural course of action,however home field advantage is always condsidered,so that leaves out any bowl games as judgement, because USC never leaves home or a warm climate for one of theses games where great powers like MICHIGAN AND THE OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY always travel thousands of miles and must prepare for a completely type of climate than they have grown used to. COME PLAY IN OHIO JANUARY 8TH and we’ll see.

By Mick

July 15, 2008 9:11 AM | Link to this

JT has neerly stoped the traders from Ohio to that state up north. Only 8 on the roster, and one of them may be transfering. OH

By Mick

July 15, 2008 9:10 AM | Link to this

JT has neerly stoped the traders from Ohio to that state up north. Only 8 on the roster, and one of them may be transfering. OH

By Victor

July 12, 2008 10:40 AM | Link to this

These guys are all good recruiters, The majority of these commemts are moot. None of us wrighting comments know the first thing about the ins and outs of recruiting.

By Jeff

July 10, 2008 8:52 PM | Link to this

JT. is doing an outstanding job recruiting across the country. What we should all recognize is what the program is doing with the kids once they arrive. Turning 3 star athletes into 1st round NFL picks tells us all the coaching is far above the rest. Including Pete’s program.

By Kelly

July 8, 2008 9:00 PM | Link to this

Anyone ever heard of Terrelle Pryor?

By Blessed Buck

July 8, 2008 3:08 PM | Link to this

Tressel isn’t just a great recruiter, he identifies talent that others do not identify. Examples: Hawk, Jenkins, Laurinaitis, all were considered 3 stars or less. To me that makes him heads above all others, 3 cheers for him & his staff.

By Jeff

July 8, 2008 1:12 PM | Link to this

Tressel is hands down the best recruiter. Kids come from all over the country to play for the Scarlet & Gray for good reason. Coaches are nothing but a class act and they expect nothing less of their players. Any problems that have occurred have been relatively minor and have been dealt with by Tress. This program is nothing but a class act and gives the kids the best opportunity to pursue careers either in football or through their education.

By RBrown

July 8, 2008 12:14 PM | Link to this

Where Tressel has an advantage over USC’s better climate and coeds…In Columbus you are the celebrity (even the 3rd string kicker)and at USC you are only a celebrity if you’re one of the best on the team. Also scheduling teams like Youngstown State and Ohio U might help.

By OSUeyesFan

July 8, 2008 11:17 AM | Link to this

Hey John if you can look at rosters and determine who is better you must be a genius. Why don’t you look at the number 1 draft picks during the tressel-carroll era? My guess is the NFL is better evaluator of talent than you.

By Joe

July 8, 2008 10:50 AM | Link to this

Tressel is better and that will be proven Sept. 13

By stelz

July 8, 2008 10:30 AM | Link to this

I would include Georgia and Alabama with Notre Dame, USC and Florida in the recruiting wars.

By Rick

July 8, 2008 9:21 AM | Link to this

Not only can Tressel recruit as good as any coach in America, I recently read where his team has an average GPA of 3.2 Comparisons of Tressel & Carroll can only be assessed in relative terms.

By d-town

July 8, 2008 8:47 AM | Link to this

For Tressel to get the recruits he gets at a cold weather school, he IS the best. Carroll and Meyer have the warm weather and honies working for them. Carroll does do a good job out of state, look at McKnight and NFL draftee Fred Davis, hes from TOLEDO!!

By Chuck

July 8, 2008 8:27 AM | Link to this

No…He’s the biggest crook.

By kurt

July 8, 2008 7:35 AM | Link to this

Pete Carroll—-isn’t he a stunt man for Richard Gere ? Just another “pretty boy” With UCLA in the dumps,Carroll ought to clean up on the best picks ALL the time

By Bob540

July 7, 2008 11:05 PM | Link to this

Context, everyone. Recruiting in Florida or California should be a no-brainer. Texas is close behind. Then, Pennsylvania, Ohio and a few other big football-talent states. If Tressel coached in CA or FL, no question he’d get even better talent than he has now because of in-state advantage. Texas likely has more talent, year-in-and-year-out, but Tressel matches or exceeds. Tressel and company do an OUTSTANDING job locking down Ohio and getting top talent from across the country. He is great

By jsam

July 7, 2008 8:55 PM | Link to this

We will find out on Sept 13th that Jim Tressel is by far the absolute best.

By Priestman

July 7, 2008 8:05 PM | Link to this

“OSU” is the best recruiter, any coach who coaches OSU gets the cream of the crop. From Woody, to Cooper to Tressel. Only problem is they can’t win the big one, with those recruits. With that said, at least they are playing for the big one, not many programs can claim that. Better to play the big game and lose then not play the big one at all.

By Rob

July 7, 2008 7:03 PM | Link to this

Yeah, and if Jim lived in California he would have just the same, if not more

By VegasBurk

July 7, 2008 6:29 PM | Link to this

Hey slurpeeman,

Not sure if you forgot, but Clarett’s stories were pretty much all shown to be lied. OSU did not get into any trouble because of Mo. Mo got into trouble himself - making excuses, taking cars and money from boosters and then the inevitable decline into booze, potentially drugs and of course, robbery.

I don’t recall Tressel getting ANY NCAA recruiting violations since he started.

By John

July 7, 2008 6:24 PM | Link to this

I haven’t seen where USC has been found guilty of any thing. Much the same way OSU was never found guilty over all that crap MC said

By chandler

July 7, 2008 6:04 PM | Link to this

Jim Tressel is hands down the best. I live in So Cal and if you check the roster for USC they are mostly home grown kids it’s not like Carrol is cleaning up around the country. He (Carrol) gets the ones he is supposed to get, Tressel gets the tough recruits.

By slurpeeman

July 7, 2008 5:11 PM | Link to this

Hmmm. Tressel isn’t as dirty a Carroll? He operates with “honor and integrity”?

Wonder what Maurice Clarett would say about that?

By Dan

July 7, 2008 4:40 PM | Link to this

Well it’s pretty easy to see that Jim Tressel is the best recruiter in College Football. Pete Carroll has violated NCAA rules and regulations several times (Reggie Bush, Matt Leighter, Etc.) Jim Tressel is the only coach in NCAA football that has kept the high standards, and honor at his school. Ohio State is known as The School to play for, compete fairly with honor and integrity and win championships.

By Kurt Amen

July 7, 2008 4:20 PM | Link to this

It’s pretty easy to recruit by throwing wads of cash and new cars at high school athletes

By Scott

July 7, 2008 4:09 PM | Link to this

The best judge of who is a better recruiter is record. It’s not about who has more guys in the NFL because that’s not a college coach’s job. It’s about winning games. Carroll is 76-14 at USC with a 5-2 Bowl record and 6 Pac-10 titles. Tress is 73-16 at OSU with a 4-3 bowl record and 4 Big 10 titles. I’d say that’s pretty darn close. And the fact that Tress can’t use the weather and climate as a draw gives him a slight edge.

By Bill

July 7, 2008 3:51 PM | Link to this

If you base it purely on high school rankings than yeah, Pete has been doing better. However, there isn’t a team in the nation with more NFlers on it than the Buckeyes right now. Tressell is dominating right now.

By Andrew

July 7, 2008 3:50 PM | Link to this

If you go off of who is where then yes Carroll and maybe Meyer are better, but where would you rather go to school in So Cal, Florida or in Columbus, Ohio.

I would say that Tressel is the best recruiter because he is getting kids to go to the land of frumpy sweaters during the winter instead of So Cal or somewhere warm.

By John

July 7, 2008 3:42 PM | Link to this

NO check out Pete Carroll and USC roster then look at OSU you will see that Pete is alot better