Everyone flip out

It's that time of year again, where college football teams make their signings, pay their players and then have a team of dorks tell them where they rank.

This is followed by the rabid fans of those respective teams going nuts over some superficial ranking that some wannabe jocks with videotape and time on their hands came up with. The rankings that they come up with are not straight from God's crystal ball of college football prospects. They are just some rankings that are arrived at through videotape, statistics, and hype.

Ohio State ranked 16th this year in the recruting ranks, and everyone in Columbus, who expects so much better, tries to make a big deal about it. Here is an example that can be applied at any big football program and should make everyone calm down, and realize the rankings do not matter.

In Ohio State's 2002 recruting class, there was a guy who had the word "Athlete" next to his name. He was probably a negative 3 star recruit or whatever, nobody thought he would amount to anything, and they didn't know what position he would play.

That same recruting class involved one of the top-rated recruits in the country at Quarterback. He was the most hyped pickup in the class, and was expected to come in and become a Buckeye legend, maybe even a Heisman trophy winner.

The "Athlete" just finished his senior season as starting QB for the Buckeyes, and he won something called the Heisman Trophy.

The QB sat on the bench behind him for the last two years, thought about transferring, and is widely considered a major Ohio State bust.

Athlete Troy Smith, meet Quarterback Justin Zwick.