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Urban Warming: Ohio State Turning Up the Heat in Texas?

By Charlie Lockhart

Jan 1, 2016; Glendale, AZ, USA; Ohio State Buckeyes head coach Urban Meyer celebrates after defeating the Notre Dame Fighting Irish during the 2016 Fiesta Bowl at University of Phoenix Stadium. The Buckeyes defeated the Fighting Irish 44-28. Mandatory Credit: Mark J. Rebilas-USA TODAY Sports
Jan 1, 2016; Glendale, AZ, USA; Ohio State Buckeyes head coach Urban Meyer celebrates after defeating the Notre Dame Fighting Irish during the 2016 Fiesta Bowl at University of Phoenix Stadium. The Buckeyes defeated the Fighting Irish 44-28. Mandatory Credit: Mark J. Rebilas-USA TODAY Sports /
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Things are getting hot on the recruiting trail for Ohio State vs Texas.

Texas head coach Tom Herman took to twitter yesterday to show the difference in temperature between Austin and Columbus. Is that because Ohio State head coach Urban Meyer has turned up the heat on the recruiting trail in the Lone Star State?

Why else would coach Herman mention that the high temperature would be between 29 and 44 degrees Monday through Friday in Columbus and 68-80 in Austin? I wonder if he ever mentioned the cold weather in Ohio when he was recruiting Texas high school players as the offensive coordinator for Ohio State? I doubt it.

The Longhorn coach also had this to say concerning Ohio weather this time of year:

"It’s hard to believe it’s been 3 short years since I had to spend my March covered in snow. So thankful to be back home."

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Now, I want to make sure you know coach Herman is not referring to climate change, so let’s not get political here. I think he is just concerned about the man-made “Urban warming”, the effect on the environment that occurs when coach Meyer targets a certain region for potential recruits.

I’m thinking that the recent Ohio State recruits in the 2017 class probably elicited coach Herman’s response. When you allow three of the top six high school recruits in the state to head north to Ohio that has to affect you.

To have CB Jeffrey Okudah, LB Baron Browning and RB J.K. Dobbins get away from you would make any coach’s hands sweat. Then the No. 1 JUCO CB in the country Kendall Sheffield heading north to play for Ohio State would ramp up the heat wouldn’t it?

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Now that Urban Meyer has a foothold in the state, expect the temperature on the recruiting trail to continue rising. It’s hard to say just how hot it may be for Tom Herman next March, if the 2018 recruiting cycle goes as well as it did this year for Urban Meyer and Ohio State.

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