I've seen the five year span on a few of those teams and the trend seems to hold true. Please note that I'm not trying to turn this into an oversigning discussion. I am not.

I think it shows more how different teams target and recruit. Some (Michigan) throw a big pile of offers at the wall and then filter them. Others are more discriminant with their offers. I can see plusses and minuses to each side. Ohio State usually has very few irons in the fire when national signing day is approaching. This has backfired a few times when prominent recruits chose other schools despite the feeling that Ohio State had a serious shot. Other schools seem to have hats on every table out there. The other fact as noted is that schools like Ohio State and Texas have a pretty solid fence around their states.

It's a lot more than paper, a stamp and an envelope. Recruits seem to be much more savvy now and they want to "feel the love". They expect heavy contact IMO.

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Posted by dgnx6

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Posted on 2/10/11 at 5:56 pm to VABuckeye

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Targeting and efficiency. As noted schools like Ohio State and Texas are usually going to do well as they own their states. LSU should be in this category as well IMO as they have Louisiana locked down.

You cant fill a whole team with LA talent alone. Even this year we had to go oos for qbs and lbs. While Texas, OSU, USC dont have to.

So we have to throw around more offers to entice kids to move to Baton Rouge.

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Posted by ottothewise

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Posted on 2/10/11 at 6:26 pm to snow517

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Michigan 175 20 11.42%

This just seems awful.

there are few local recruits. so Mich are recruiting Ohio and Western Pa first, and then anywhere there is a nibble.
recruiting Ohio means vs tOSU.
recruiting Western PA means vs State Penn, Pitt and WV and tOSU.

its not easy being Michigan in the present time.

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