Eleven Warriors

Barrett, Bailey, Chapman, Trubisky

Two of the four. 

Chapman seems pretty determined to earn an offer at camp. 

I really have no idea, but if I had to gues it would be Barrett and Chapman....again, a total guess. 

Hate to say 'I told you so', but just had the sense that this kid was headed to ND. Not sure him not having a committable offer even mattered.

Interesting that rivals is so high on Chapman but Urbz has offered several lower ranked QBs. I trust him though, I'm just hoping we land Barrett after that I'm okay with either of the previously mentioned 3

ESPN has zaire's 40time listed as a 4.92.  That can't be right...or is it?

I'm more excited about Barrett who outperformed Shane Morris this weekend and earned an invite to the Elite11 finals (Shane didn't, lul).

Absolutely cannot believe it...

I'm a bit confused? ND has a nice young crop of talented QB's including Gunner Keil who I've seen play and agree that he is gonna be a good one. Zaire will most likely never see the field anytime soon at ND (IMO). I was pretty confident that he was gonna be a Buckeye and from what some are saying he would still take an OSU offer. Big time surprise IMO.

I agree DMC. No doubt we will continue to have great classes and I have high expectations for tOSU, but I definitely don't suscribe to the notion that "Urban will get whoever he wants". If this were true, we'd have a few of the linemen that already commited to Mich and Dymonte and a few other guys elsewhere. Urban isn't the God that he's made out to be. I think he will do amazing things here and I wouldn't want any other guy (other than Tressel), but he'll make mistakes and swing-and-miss every once in awhile like any other coach.

EDIT: @Thirdleg- I'm entitled to my opinions and Zaire was the guy I wanted first. Other than Barrett, I'm not too impressed with the QB's we have on the board.

I think we all get caught up in recruiting a little too much though and analyze who we get and who we miss...I just want it to be September!

With Braxton only being a Soph, and guys like JT Barrett, Bailey, etc seriously in the mix for OSU, Zaire likely would not have seen the field at OSU either, @AdAman

Read the other day that ND would have a four-way battle for the QB position. Adding another one to the mix may be fine for them. Don't think Meyer wants to add any depth that is not an absolute home run. Especially at qb with 3 less schollies per year as I mentioned earlier in the thread.

I have to be honest, I'm a little shocked at this as well. I hope all of us who are "worrying" at the moment are proved wrong as this recruiting class moves forward.

Not worried at all.

Many good QBs still left that we either lead for or have as good a chance as any at.

And like others said, if Urban really wants him, he'll get him. Like we saw last year, no commitment is official til signing day.

ThirdLeg, I'm not saying the sky is falling or woe is us, but it's apparent that we aren't steamrolling through the other Big Ten schools like we were when Urban first came on board and wrapped up the 2012 class and started the 2013 class. Our momentum has been stalled by Michigan, Penn State, and now Notre Dame. 

I'm sure Urban will rebound and we will have a top class, but I think we're almost to a point where players (especially national players) want to see it on the field before they commit. 

One can conclude that with more early commitments than ever before, we will see the most commitment-flips than ever before as a consequence. 

anyone see Urban not land Braxton Miller when he was at Florida?  Funny to read all the posts explaining away recruits committing to other schools, as recruits Meyer just didn't want. 

I am finding it very difficult to be patient, but I am going to try my best.  If we end up with Barrett and Pocic, losing these two will not hurt so much (or at all).  The problem is we are going to have to wait at least until summer for some of these guys we are high on and still have nearly a year to signing day.  It's hard to be patient, but let's not jump the gun too much (at least not until summer).

Braxton will be a Junior by the time any of these 2013 recruits take the field, and the staff would prefer to have 4 scholarship QBs on the roster, so I think it's clear we take at least one QB in this class.

As for those recruits waiting to see our team on the field, the Spring Game is coming soon.  Then there's Friday Night Lights this Summer.  There are a lot of kids committing early, but they still haven't signed a LOI, so anything can still happen.

@NorthBrook-

Sure, Hodges and Hosick are possibilities to land in the '13 class- I think right now, though, aside from JT Barrett, who has a 100% committable offer, the staff is looking to see a lot of these kids at a QB camp in the summer. If the staff likes what they see of Hodges or Hosick over the summer, then expect teh pressure to get turned up on them- but as it sits right now, there are other prospects higher on tOSU's board. 

Atm, it looks like Aaron Bailey is looking between OSU, Illinois and NW, as long as there is no major desire to stay in state, I like our chances with him, and then JT Barrett is the other guy youd really like to see in this class.

I think Run_Fido_Run makes the best point here.  For the last two months or so the biggest debate about Zaire was whether or not he had a committable offer to OSU.  There was a lot of confusion surrounding this.  To me, this means that Urban isn't really all that concerned with landing him.  While I snickered a little when I saw Zaire went elsewhere, none of us can say for sure whether he would've ended up in Columbus next February anyway.

Oh well, I'd have liked to have seen a Kettering boy tearing it up out there.  Best of luck to him at ND (it pains me to type that, by the way), but I agree with Louie here, 40% accuracy es no bueno.

I'm sure a nice lil' commitment from Mr. JT Barrett will make us forget all about this. Onward and upward, Buckeyes!  

I'm betting it wasn't his hesitation toward competition, it was probably because he didn't feel that his offer (non-committable) and the related interest was truly genuine after Meyer fired off a handful of QB offers in one weekend.  Look at Dymonte, talented kids want to feel special--I'm not saying that Meyer's not good at that kind of thing (he rolls out the red carpet better than anyone, look at Spence), but sometimes it can backfire.  

Besides, if the kid's offer wasn't committable, you can't blame him for feeling like Kelly's committable offer to ND valued him more.

Agreed, but I think it was Fickell that initially offered him.  I'm betting that Meyer was a bit more cautious with his approach toward committment.  I totally agree with you, but I still think that a committable offer versus a verbal offer demonstrate different levels of committment from the staff.  I mean, let's face it--I'm pretty sure that JT Barrett has held a committable offer since Meyer made contact with him, it shows that--at least at this moment--that Barett is a higher priority than Zaire is.  Now, if Zaire has an awesome camp, or dramatically improves his accuracy this season, we'll see renewed interest.  But, at this very moment--for whatever reason--Meyer wasn't as sold on him as he was on Barrett.