OSU CB Gareon Conley, Florida CB Quincy Wilson, and Florida OT David Sharpe all declare for NFL Draft

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Title says it all.

Conley is the second OSU DB to declare in the past two days after Malik Hooker. OSU is still waiting on decisions from DB Marshon Lattimore, LB Raekwon McMillan, DE Tyquan Lewis, HB Curtis Samuel, TE Marcus Baugh, and QB JT Barrett. All but Barrett are probably leans to go pro, with many OSU fans thinking Barrett will either go pro or follow Tim Beck and Tom Herman to Texas.

I'm not nearly as familiar with Florida's roster, but they do have projected high picks in Teez Tabor and Caleb Brantley who are good bets to go pro. Florida will have to replace a good bit on defense next year, will return most of their anemic offense and still need a new DC to replace Geoff Collins. They've also been pretty underwhelming on the recruiting rail under McElwain, with the 21st ranked class nationally his first year, the 12th ranked class last year, and they currently have the 19th ranked class with no 5 stars and 8/15 3 stars.

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BursleyBaitsBus

January 3rd, 2017 at 8:08 PM ^

If anything people should be more concerned with who's leaving Florida since that's the 1st game of the season next year. 

 

OSU's replacement dudes will be playing like seasoned vets by the time they reach us at the Big House. It's just standard for them to ball out against Mich even if they're young. 

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BursleyBaitsBus

January 3rd, 2017 at 8:58 PM ^

Veteran teams figure out how to win the tough ones. Michigan lost every tough game this year. 

OSU should have been a double digit victory. The only people who cling on to the "buts and what ifs" are Michigan fans. At the end of the day, it's still another loss to OSU. 

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Ghost of Fritz…

January 3rd, 2017 at 8:19 PM ^

This is a blog about Michigan.  OSU is the main rival.  Michigan's first game in September is against Florida. 

We talk about college football.  And we talk about the schools Michigan plays. 

Seems completely valid to have some concern about which Florida and OSU starters are leaving for the NFL.

 

 

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Ghost of Fritz…

January 3rd, 2017 at 8:12 PM ^

very probably going to decide to go the NFL.  The reality of the financial equation cannot be ignored.

But I believe his tweet about being torn and it being a hard decision.  He likes being at Michigan.  Likes his teammates.  Likes the culture in the Michigan program.  That is why he is torn. 

In contrast, these OSU guys don't seem torn at all.  They had their minds fully made up long before the playoff game.  No need to think on it more. 

The same financial pull that is working on Peppers is operating on them too.  But, unlike Peppers, there seems to be little in their program that tugs them towards staying. 

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Danwillhor

January 3rd, 2017 at 8:18 PM ^

They don't go there to play school or be a college student in any way we'd relate to. Sure, players at UM live a life we can't really relate to but they recruit on the notion of "this is a factory, a stop for 3 years, 4 years should you get hurt". Most kids don't go there to give a damn about anything but football. I both hate and reapect that level of honesty.

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Double-D

January 3rd, 2017 at 9:24 PM ^

have been staying in the program. It says a lot about the culture he has built. The players often talk about how close they are and how much they enjoy playing at Michigan. You can contrast that to many other schools. It also casts a big shadow on the "Harbaugh wears you out" crowd. I think Harbaugh wears you out if you are his boss and you are an idiot.

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buckeyejonross

January 3rd, 2017 at 9:59 PM ^

You're also ignoring the OSU kids who have been jumping early have accomplished their goals at OSU. The 2015 and 2016 EEs have all made the playoff twice, won the B1G, won the national title and are 3-0 v. Michigan. They have nothing left to prove. Contrast that with guys like Butt, Lewis, and any of the other potential EEs from Michigan in 2015 and 2016 and none of those kids have ever beaten OSU, won the B1G, made the playoff or even won a bowl more important than the BDubs one.

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buckeyejonross

January 3rd, 2017 at 10:36 PM ^

How is reality trolling? I made a legitimate point. What more do OSU class of 2014 guys have to accomplish? What more did OSU class of 2013 kids have to accomplish?

You can spin it that Michigan kids loved their experience/program/culture more (and I'm sure they did love it!), but that implies kids like Conley, Hooker, Bosa and 'Zeke didn't like their OSU program/culture/experience and wanted to flee asap. Which, c'mon.

Don't you think it seems likely the OSU kids all said "I've already won everything I could win here, I'm gonna go get paid now" whereas the Michigan kids said "I'll run it back to try for more team success because all we've done here is underachieve relative to our rivals."

After all, you do have the indignity of being the team that lost to the team that got blown out 31-0 on national TV.

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ThadMattasagoblin

January 3rd, 2017 at 10:55 PM ^

The fact that you come on a Michigan website and say that Butt, Lewis etc. have all lost to OSU, haven't won the big ten, and haven't won a bowl game better than the Bdubs Bowl etc. You're a good poster and but if I went onto a MSU website and said something like "you guys went 3-9 and lost to a Jeff George led Illinois team while Michigan went 10-3 and came a few plays away from going 12-0" I'd expect pushback. It is all factual but you are trying to get a rise out of us by posting stuff like Bdubs bowl instead of Citrus Bowl which makes it sound less prestigious.

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buckeyejonross

January 3rd, 2017 at 11:20 PM ^

It's not like I said what I said unprompted. I gave opinions in the context of a discussion about why OSU players seem to leave early while Michigan players seem to stick around for their last year. I feel like the facts I listed are more relevant to my opinions than pretending there's an intangible culture problem at OSU which is pushing out star players because they hate being there.

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xtramelanin

January 4th, 2017 at 5:48 AM ^

or dumped by your boy/girlfriend.  normally your posts are engaging, not trolling.   you make it worse when you offer up stupid rationalizations too.  stop.  keep your otherwise-welcome online persona here with us.  or not.  your call, man.  

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xtramelanin

January 4th, 2017 at 5:54 AM ^

your fans poop in coolers and make sparty fans look positively peachy, anybody that can fog a mirror gets into that joke of a school they call ohio, etc.   that would be trolling.   most of us never engage you like that and wouldn't.   please go back to your normally pretty cool self.  

EDIT:  this post should be a few posts higher up, but thanks to drupal, it's not.  oh well.  

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Ghost of Fritz…

January 3rd, 2017 at 10:28 PM ^

there was a comment by Meyer after the Clemson game.  It was not part of the press conference.  It was an interview outside the locker room. 

He said that "some guys made an uncommon commitment to this program; some guys didn't."

That is a big thing to say.  The fact that he stated that publicly indicates that there was a bit of a locker room problem.  Maybe not a huge problem.  But a problem.  Enough of a problem for him to put it forward as a reason for the blowout.  He would not say it if it were not true. 

Usually, even if there is a problem, coaches do not discuss it publicly.  Seems like he was saying that some in the program were not fully committed to the team. 

 

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buckeyejonross

January 3rd, 2017 at 11:21 PM ^

I don't disagree there may have been some people uncommitted to the program. I'm sure that happens everywhere. I would counter, the only two guys who have declared early so far, Conley and Hooker, were the two best players on the field for OSU against Clemson, and they've been fantastic all season. If they were distracted by their own individual agendas, then I shudder to think how good they could have been, because Hooker was All-American and Conley was All-B1G. 

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Ghost of Fritz…

January 3rd, 2017 at 11:42 PM ^

that my take on the possible culture/locker room problem is speculation, but it is based on that comment that Meyer made. 

What I saw that I was really shocked.  Coaches rarely make that kind of statement in public.  He was offering it as one reason for the 31-0 shut out.

So there must be something serious enough there to mention it in a post game interview. 

It may be nothing.  But I doubt it,  Otherwise Meyer would not have mentioned it. 

 

 

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buckeyejonross

January 4th, 2017 at 1:39 AM ^

Ehh, Beck doesn't call the plays, so I doubt that had much of a game-day impact. But I could see Beck already being halfway out the door to Texas on December 31, and thus a target of Meyer's answer.

Besides, Fickell was also out the door after the Fiesta Bowl, and his defense played well against Clemson. That game is 60-0 if the defense doesn't play out if it's mind for 3 quarters before finally quitting at the end.

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