It doesn’t raise red flags, per se, but it does raise an eyebrow. Or six. Of 247Sports’ top 12 prep football recruits from Ohio in the Class of 2018, four have signed or committed to Ohio State, while three remain up in the air. Meanwhile, five — nearly half — are pledged elsewhere: two to Michigan State; two to Kentucky; and one, the state’s overall No. 1, Fairfield’s Jackson Carman, to Clemson. What’s notable is that Urban Meyer’s first six recruiting classes with the Buckeyes averaged six of the top 12 Ohioans each year as ranked by 247Sports. The six classes before that averaged more or less the same (5.6 of the top 12 Ohioans) going back to the winter of 2006. So while 2018 isn’t far off the pace, it isn’t going out of its way to hit it, either. “There’s a definite change in philosophy from [former coach…
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