This sucks because Uncle Urb is going to clean house in Midwest recruiting and pull kids who might otherwise consider ND. I can almost guarantee this is going to happen.
Urb is a much better recruiter then Tressel. They were saying on ESPN that he is going to make his biggest impact on recruiting. His classes at Florida were thought of as some of the greatest of all time. The man can recruit and that is bad news for a lot of other Midwest schools.
Man, Urban's so good that he's going to take 75 to midwest recruits every single year. We're screwed!!!
I think it's going to hurt us a bit in recruiting, but man, you're taking it overboard. ND has to recruit against great coaches all over the country. We had to compete against Petey in CA, Urban in FL, Tressel at OSU, etc etc etc. And yet we still landed 4-5 star recruits in all those areas, and we had the top recruiting class in the country in 2008 - recruiting against those very coaches I just mentioned - Urbie included.
How many times do we really go up against OSU head-to-head in recruiting? It's less than you might think. There are many times where we just recruit a different type of kid. We'll definitely lose some to Urban, but we lost those very same kids to Tressel, b/c those Ohio kids grew up rooting for and loving OSU. That's not going to change with Urban there. And he can only take 25 a year anyway. I think it'll hurt Michigan much worse than it'll hurt us. (And again, I think it'll hurt us, but c'mon, follow recruiting a little closer and see where we get our kids and where OSU gets theres, and what kind of kids OSU pulls.)