2011 Ohio State Recruiting Class

            The Ohio State Buckeyes football program has taken big steps by signing some of the nations top recruits this past Wednesday on National Signing Day. The Buckeyes improved all three levels of their tough defense with two of the top defensive linemen in the nation with Canton McKinley’s Steve Miller, and Centerville’s Michael Bennett.

After not locking-in some of Ohio’s top prospects of the 2010 class, they sure did this year. In total they have seven of the ESPNU 150 prospects and many who just missed that cut. All in all, this year they have added great talent to make up and possibly exceed the talent that was lost by the graduating senior class, and the five suspended players that will be suspended for the first five games of next year. Although Jim Tressel gets great ball players out of Ohio, he seems to get some great talent from all over the United States. In past years and including this year he has gotten some great talent out of states such as Florida, Virginia, Indiana and Illinois.

Even though the beginning of the 2011 season will be without our star quarterback, Terrelle Pyror, and many other important starters, Tressel will have to determine on many underclassmen and upperclassmen without much experience to fill those voids. In the 2011 recruiting class, he has done a great job in getting players to fill those gaping holes and hopes that his recruits pan out the way he anticipates. Good luck to all of those new recruits with their Ohio State careers.