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February 4, 2012On Friday, Ohio State Athletic Director Gene Smith responded to comments made by Bret Bielema and the Michigan State staff this week about Urban Meyer’s recruiting. Later, Meyer himself issued a statement on the little dust-up provoked by the Wisconsin coach. In that statement, he vowed that he and his staff will be “relentless” on the recruiting trail.
“We had an opportunity to discuss a number of issues with each other and conference staff, including those that have arisen this week. It should be noted that my coaching staff is in full compliance with our recruiting efforts, and no one on this staff did anything illegal or unethical. We will continue to comply with NCAA rules and recruit with relentless effort, especially the great state of Ohio. I want to thank (Big Ten commissioner Jim) Delany for his insight and leadership, and at this point we all look forward to moving past this week and getting ready for the start of spring football.
You’ve got a responsibility to your home state. Absolutely. There is not a coach in America who’s not going to do that, not going to check on his own state.”
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2 national championships, bowl wins, etc. It’s not that hard for him to recruit after you look at his career. Does anyone else feel like Wisconsin is becoming Ohio State’s other rival now? Quit crying Bielema.
Hey Wisconsin, Deal With It!
I feel like the Big Ten has a rival square with UW, UMich, MSU, and OSU. OSU and Michigan hate each other, Wisconsin and Ohio State are trying to get in fights, Wisconsin and Michigan State have the whole close, important games thing going on, and MSU/UMich have the Little brother/little sister thing.
Well, Wisconsin is in our ‘half’ of the conference, possibly our biggest obstacle to a B1G title game. Penn St. is on a downturn, and Indy, Purdue, and Ill. have been pretty bad for a while. Then add to the fact that Mich. is our rival (hence, The Game and longest rivalry in college sports but they ain’t cryin’ since their class was right behind ours). And Sparty just has sour grapes because they lost to Wis. in title gm.
It would be great if we ran the table in conference, then had to sit out the B1G title game and “allowed” Wisconsin to go as the 2nd place team….almost making it seem like we gave Wiscy permission to go on our behalf….probably the best “diss” we can muster next year with the sanctions.