When Jim Tressel was the head coach of the Ohio State football program, he made sure to build a fence around the state of Ohio when it came to recruiting. He wanted to make sure that the Ohio State Buckeyes were landing the best recruits in the state every single year.
When Beanie Wells was coming out of high school, he was the best running back prospect in the country. The five-star recruit from Akron, Ohio, was one of Tressel's highest priorities on the recruiting trail. Still, that didn't mean that it was a shoo-in that Wells would pick Ohio State.