We are going after kids in Ohio but it's much different than the way the last coaching staff went after them. It comes back to Brewster coaching at Texas and having a good relationship with the Texas HS coaches and Mason playing and coaching at Ohio State and having good relationships with the Ohio HS coaches. HS coaches are a gate keeper for HS athletes and when a head coach has a relationship with HS coaches the HS coaches give call the college coaches about their players and they speak highly of your staff when they communicate with the HS players.
We offered RB Bud Golden and OT Marcus Hill from Cincy and we are going after CB Mike Edwards from Cleveland Glenville HS where Ted Ginn, Sr. is the head coach. There is a long established pipeline from Glenville to OSU so the only way we are going to get a recruit from there is if OSU passes on him or somehow screws up the recruitment process. It's like this at other places too so in many cases the Gophers may just want to be the alternative program of choice in case a player gets passed over by the big dog or just wants to leave town. I think this is pretty much what the Gophers are trying to do at Dallas Skyline but at best we probably fall behind Texas and Oklahoma.
It would be nice if we had a coach with stronger ties to Ohio to try to pull in more recruits from there but Ohio is a very well scouted area by all of the Big Ten schools. I personally think it is easier to differentiate yourself in Texas as a Big Ten School in a big city when the athletes are being recruited by other schools in other conferences in college towns. We could probably do a better job recruting in Florida and California too the net your staff casts can only be so wide before you become less effective.