As much as I loathe Mitch Albom for his career of Detroit homerism, typewritten fellacio of the Fab Five and that pile of overwrought suck known as "Tuesdays with Morrie" - I will agree with parts of his column in the Detroit Free Press.There were probably about 100 of these columns written across the country, mostly cause sportswriters hate covering recruiting.
I don't blame them. It's a real pain in the ass calling some kid who will change his mind tomorrow morning.
Here's the rub, newsjournos - hundreds of thousands of psychotic fans DO like recruiting. Newspapers are dying. This might give people a reason to pick up the paper, but gee, it's a pain.
Hmmm....guys, you might want to suck this one up for the sake of your jobs.
In other recruiting overanalysis, Bob Hunter of the Columbus Dispatch tells me that the population migration South is hurting Ohio State's recruiting.
Eh. Sort of. OSU, Michigan and Notre Dame can still grab the top players who aren't far off of their Southern contemporaries. The real difference is in the bottom half of the Big Ten. The depth just isn't there any more.
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Hunter seems to forget that most of those people left Ohio for the south because they can't find any jobs in the state.
Good point on Albom. He's a bit of a whiner. But this is one of those chances to enhance coverage and build readership.
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