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Welp, no waiting after all. Slade went ahead and signed his LOI for OSU...lolwut.

Damn Stoops Bros. Both have now signed. So everyone is in. Just wait and see with Slade on 2/16 but people seem confident that will be OSU as well. Pretty weird.

OSU now just waiting on LOI's from Jamarco Jones (whose mother tweeted pictures of him shoveling snow to get her car out - probably to go fax the LOI) and Kyle Berger who just tweeted he's having some technical difficulties (probably the snow as well). Funny those two will also be roommates at OSU.

And McDowell signs with MSU as he wanted. Got pops to sign the LOI too. Could be sleeping on the couch for a while judging by the fact that mom is pretty much nowhere to be seen.

Doesn't have anything to do with McDowell although I don't think he's going to OSU. Slade was trying to get an OV set for this past weekend or the weekend before that (I forget) but couldn't get the logistics in order. This is an LJ Sr. thing all the way though. Apparently Slade lives with Jared Odrick's dad in NJ. Odrick was a great DL for PSU under LJ Sr.

Yeah, wrong word choice there. Under 21 = parent/guardian sign LOI. But he says he's going with/without them. I guess he can just stroll on over to East Lansing in June or whenever their freshmen will be enrolling and have a scholarship waiting IF MSU wants to do that. I don't think I've ever seen that happen though. Someone's going to cave.

Apparently Malik is saying he's going to sign with MSU with or without his parents. Should be an interesting announcement ceremony tomorrow morning. Holding onto Jamarco was obviously priority #1 unless Malik was willing to play OL which I don't think he is. So I'm all for the most entertaining scenario now with regards to Malik.

Yeah, that was 6ish hours ago. Bill's was within the last hour. We'll know for sure tomorrow morning. Like I said, could get interesting if his parents, especially his mom, aren't on board. Jamarco has confirmed with Scout that he's sticking with OSU. Good shit.

Bill Greene saying McDowell will go MSU somehow. Should be interesting. His parents seem staunchly against it. Jamarco Jones should make his decision official tonight but he just tweeted O-H within the last 10 minutes or so which I'm hoping is a good sign.

So obviously since my last post the Jamarco visit happened and McDowell did end up visiting OSU. Most of the stuff I've read seems to be leaning Jamarco = MSU and McDowell = OSU. If Malik were open to playing OL (people think he could be an incredible OT) I'd be happier with that exchange. Even still Jamarco is probably a guard so it wouldn't be the worst loss ever. People seem more confident now that OSU has their starting tackles for a couple years in Decker and Lisle but they need to start stocking up behind them and fast. If they have another underwhelming OL class in 2015 then there's a problem. Interesting thing happening this weekend though. Shelby Spence, an athlete in the 2014 class, will be visiting OSU. Obviously it's after signing day but that's not the interesting part. He's the QB for Jamarco Jones' HS team. I don't see any way that OSU would offer him a scholarship (he has 0 offers reported on 247) but it's interesting that he might get some kind of preferred walk-on thing. A bad sign that people were talking about earlier today was that Jamarco stopped talking with Mark Pantoni (OSU's director of recruiting or whatever his title is) and other OSU recruits. Now, he may have shut everything down entirely and may not be talking to MSU people either. Obviously though if he were talking to one and not the other it would tip his hat a bit. Pretty funny I made a comment on r/cfb a week or so ago about OSU having a reporter from ESPN on campus for signing day and how it didn't look like there would be any real excitement or drama. Now we've got a kid who's been committed since summer possibly flipping to the team that just beat OSU in the B10CG and a 5* from Michigan whose parents want him out of the state who may announce for OSU Wednesday morning. :lolguy::dumb::fuuuu::no:

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Mom is definitely on OSU's side though and, as far as I can tell, she's a single mom so Jamarco will have plenty of reason to listen to her. She had a great tweet tonight after various sites were saying their sources were saying the visit was over hours ago, etc., etc. She just tweeted a picture of Jamarco with LJ Sr., Drayton and Warinner with this text... According to "my sources" Drayton, Johnson, and Warriner were in Chicago until moments ago...#Itookthepic Everything does point to the visit still being on and that's never a great sign but we'll see. His coach seemed to think it's just going to be a "making sure" kind of visit. Some people have changed their stance on the whole "if he visits MSU he's going to MSU" thing and think he could go and stick with OSU. And it sounds like McDowell may end up visiting Ann Arbor this weekend instead of Columbus. Mom would be chalking up a W in that scenario if that's the case.

David Njoku's visit this weekend canceled, his offer no longer committable. People saying it's a numbers thing. A player who was previously thought too hurt to continue their career is now going to continue. Some speculating Christian Bryant (he lost his B1G appeal but could file with NCAA after that) but I doubt that. My guess would be Blake Thomas since he's actually a TE.

Michigan moved their in-home visit with McDowell to tomorrow morning, just before he heads to Columbus. Really strange recruitment for McDowell but Bill Greene says he's got OSU #1 right now with FSU in 2nd and MSU/UM being basically out due to the parents wanting him at UM and him wanting OSU/MSU and the parents being more receptive to OSU thus far. He's pretty much universally considered overrated (composite 5-star on 247) so this wouldn't be a great, giant coup. Lots of people think he'd be an incredible OT if he'd be willing to do that in college though.

From Bill Greene on Scout... So the Vrabel stuff doesn't really matter after all. Will be interesting to see how the parents fare in both cases.

Articles all over the place about Herman's trek now. Pretty funny.

Ended up spending 19 hours in his car, ditching it and started walking 4 miles to the airport to catch a flight to Dallas with all his luggage. From what I can tell the guy who helped him the final bit of the way, Terry Spiller, works for Delta. CBS national news tweeted at him asking if they could use his pictures as well. :lolguy:

On a weird note, Tom Herman has been stuck on the freeway outside of Atlanta trying to drive a total of 50 miles for over 13 hours. Judging by his twitter it seems he's on the verge of leaving his rental car and walking a couple miles to his hotel.

God help us all.

lol... you seem very irritated over this. The kid hasn't even de-committed yet and there's a chance OSU will keep him from ever going on the visit. And yes, I do remember Aundrey Walker and Seantrel Henderson. Walker flat out told people he was going to USC and no one believed him because he was Glenville and they thought he was just doing what Glenville kids do. No idea what has gone on with Henderson but I remember him. I think he'll be drafted this year? Not sure.

You can call bullshit all you want but I distinctly remember within days of the Orange Bowl Jones' mother tweeted how excited/happy she was to see Vrabel visiting them at like 6AM. Then during the in-home Vrabel was playing with Jones' siblings the whole time. The OSU move is pretty public at this point so here it is... Warinner and LJ Sr. will be at Jones' house Thursday after MSU's in-home on Wednesday. Obviously Meyer used his in-home already but assistants also have an available in-home. It's usually a desperation move and that's what this is to try and keep him from visiting East Lansing.

Gotta love the SEC West... http://www.rollbamaroll.com/2014/1/27/5349996/2014-roster-lookahead-the-number-crunch Alabama basically has to cut 9 guys if they sign 27. They're at 24 right now so they need to cut 6 regardless.

MSU's in-home is Wednesday. OSU has a little trick up their sleeve to try and stop the official visit this weekend despite Meyer's in-home already having been used. But yeah, if the visit happens people are saying he'll end up at MSU. I had kinda forgotten that OSU was doing their permanent lights and new seats for THIS season. Article on that... http://thelantern.com/2014/01/9m-ohio-stadium-project-add-seats-lights/ $9m for 2,500 more seats and permanent lights. I hope VT, Cincy and Rutgers are all night games.

It's all about comfort and relationships and he and his family were real tight with Vrabel. Vrabel leaves and Jones starts thinking about options, he's got 2 friends who are freshmen on the MSU hoops team, etc., etc. Worst thing in all of this is that Urban already used his in-home (with Vrabel and probably Warinner). MSU will be in to see Jones this week then we'll see what happens next weekend. On another note, Knox's UCLA visit is off according to him on Twitter. So that looks done. Hopefully Jones ends similarly.

Vrabel was very close to Jones and his family so that's part of it. He was tweeting back and forth with Kyle Berger tonight. Some MSU guys think now that the visit is public knowledge it may not happen.