Ohio State

[ShahHouman]

good but how many of them drafted the last few years are NOT linemen? again OSU is doing much better than the rest of the big 10

2006 NFL Draft selections Round Pick # Team Player Position

1 5 Green Bay Packers A. J. Hawk Linebacker

1 8 Buffalo Bills Donte Whitner Safety

1 18 Dallas Cowboys Bobby Carpenter Linebacker

1 25 Pittsburgh Steelers Santonio Holmes Wide Receiver

1 29 New York Jets Nick Mangold Center (best center in the NFL right now)

3 70 Buffalo Bills Ashton Youboty Cornerback

3 76 New York Jets Anthony Schlegel Linebacker

4 121 Carolina Panthers Nate Salley Safety

4 128 Seattle Seahawks Rob Sims Guard



2007 NFL Draft selections Round Pick # Team Player Position

1 9 Miami Dolphins Ted Ginn, Jr. Wide Receiver

1 32 Indianapolis Colts Anthony Gonzalez Wide Receiver

3 18 Indianapolis Colts Quinn Pit**** Defensive End

4 107 New Orleans Saints Antonio Pittman Running Back

5 138 Oakland Raiders Jay Richardson Defensive Tackle

5 169 Indianapolis Colts Roy Hall Wide Receiver

5 174 Baltimore Ravens Troy Smith Quarterback

6 198 Atlanta Falcons Doug Datish Center



2008 NFL Draft selections Round Pick # Team Player Position

1 6 New York Jets Vernon Gholston Defensive Line

7 214 San Francisco 49ers Larry Grant Linebacker

7 247 Chicago Bears ***k Barton Offensive Tackle



2009 NFL Draft selections Round Pick # Team Player Position

1 14 New Orleans Saints Malcolm Jenkins Cornerback

1 31 Arizona Cardinals Chris Wells Running back

2 35 St. Louis Rams James Laurinaitis Linebacker

2 36 Cleveland Browns Brian Robiskie Wide receiver

4 102 Kansas City Chiefs Donald Washington Defensive Back

4 108 Miami Dolphins Brian Hartline Wide receiver

5 154 Chicago Bears Marcus Freeman Linebacker



2010 NFL Draft selections Round Pick # Team Player Position

4 18 Pittsburgh Steelers Thaddeus Gibson Defensive End

7 35 Pittsburgh Steelers Doug Worthington Defensive Tackle

7 37 Philadelphia Eagles Kurt Coleman Strong Safety

7 45 Miami Dolphins Austin Spitler Linebacker



31 NFL draft picks, and of them 9 are linemen.

[rugs]

^ ey val

[tehran ajibe]

that was a hell of a game against Arkansas

[ShahHouman]

www.oversigning.com


$EC at it's finest

today's entry

Alabama with Verbal Commitment #22 and #1 Recruiting Class
Alabama picked up verbal commitment #22 last night from Xzavier Dickson and they now have the #1 ranked class according to Rivals.com. http://rivals.yahoo.com/ncaa/footbal...011/Alabama-73

That commitment seems to have ushered in the departure of another commitment as one of the 22 is now headed to JUCO. http://alabama.rivals.com/barrier_no...tid=&mid=&rid=

It cannot be stressed enough how much of an advantage it is for Saban to not have to work withing a projected recruiting budget like he would if he were recruiting in the Big 10 conference. With a senior class of roughly 8-10 players and no more than 4 Juniors jumping to the NFL early, the reasonable recruiting budget for Alabama should be somewhere around 14-15 players, which is what you would expect when a school has such a small senior class. If you go back and look at schools such as Ohio State, you will occasionally see a small class of 15 or so recruits. That is the normal cycle of recruiting when you are not allowed to oversign.

Ohio State signed 16 recruits in 2003, 15 in 2007, and 19 in 2010. See the pattern there; every three or four years you have a small class if you are not oversigning every year.

Alabama on the other hand going back to 2005 has had 32, 23, 25, 32, 27, 29, and is at 22 this year.

Alabama is not done recruiting yet as there are still a few players on their board and national signing day is not here yet. The good news is that at least the SEC will stop them at 28; even though they are already way, way over their projected budget.

Must be nice to just go out and get 25-28 new players every year, despite what you have room for, and never get so much as a phone call from the conference office asking where you are going to put everyone.

Mike Slive and the University Presidents of the SEC should be ashamed of themselves for allowing this to continue, but to them, maybe this is just a way of life...after all, this has been going on in the SEC since the days of Bobby Dodd and Georgia Tech being an SEC member institution. At least they had the dignity to take a stand and leave.

[mkbf2]

Houman you gotta admit this is funny:

http://deadspin.com/5727680/tcu-bill...-best-comeback

[ShahHouman]

I think it proves our point. They're a small team playing a bunch of nobodies and now they gotta say somethin about it. Do you see us making a billboard in $EC country about our sugar bowl win? No, because we've been there. It's like having sex with a girl and calling all your boys to tell em lol