How will Urban Meyer's system affect recruiting?

One thing that I've been wondering about is how will Urban's offensive scheme affect our recruiting.  To get an idea I decided to look at the past.  The schedule recaps Letters of Intent signed by Coaches Tressel and Meyer during their tenures at Ohio State and Florida.  It then shows a % breakdown by postion and then extrapolates to an 85 man roster:



Ohio State
LOI
%
85 x %
OL
23
12.8%
10.9
RB
15
8.3%
7.1
FB
3
1.7%
1.4
WR
17
9.4%
8.0
QB
10
5.6%
4.7
TE
10
5.6%
4.7
DT
14
7.8%
6.6
DE
18
10.0%
8.5
LB
25
13.9%
11.8
CB
23
12.8%
10.9
S
18
10.0%
8.5
P
1
0.6%
0.5
K
3
1.7%
1.4
180


Florida
LOI
%
+/-
85 x %
+/-
OL
18
15.8%
3.0%
13.4
2.6
RB
8
7.0%
-1.3%
6.0
-1.1
FB
1
0.9%
-0.8%
0.7
-0.7
WR
15
13.2%
3.7%
11.2
3.2
QB
5
4.4%
-1.2%
3.7
-1.0
TE
5
4.4%
-1.2%
3.7
-1.0
DT
10
8.8%
1.0%
7.5
0.8
DE
10
8.8%
-1.2%
7.5
-1.0
LB
16
14.0%
0.1%
11.9
0.1
CB
12
10.5%
-2.3%
8.9
-1.9
S
12
10.5%
0.5%
8.9
0.4
P
1
0.9%
0.3%
0.7
0.3
K
1
0.9%
-0.8%
0.7
-0.7
114
There are a few things that stick out:

• Surprisingly, Urban has 2.6 more offensive linemen which if he continues this practice will make many Buckeye fans happy.  Lack of experienced linemen was a continued compliant during the Tressel era.
• Given the switch to an offense more reliant on 4+wide receiver sets, Urban recruited 1.1 less running back but 3.2 more wide receivers.
• Fullbacks (-0.7) and blocking tight ends (-1.0) are somewhat interchangeable in Urban's scheme meaning we will recruit less specialty players in these two areas.
• Defense is surprisingly similar with the exception of cornerback where Urban had about 9 on the roster where JT had 11.  This is most likely due to Coach Tressel's love of special teams.  

Urban had 38.8 on offense and 44.7 on defense.  Coach Tress had 36.8 and 46.3.  Teams usually carry more defensive players due to special teams but one thing I do know that Urban did move some offensive players to defense if when they arrived they struggled to be a good fit to his scheme.  For example, Joe Haden came in as a wide receiver and left early as a cornerback.

No doubt recruiting philosoply is going to be affected by Urban's arrival and the transition might be a little messy as when combined with the scholarship reduction he might be having some tough conversations with a few players over the summer to make room for next year's class.  I'll probably cover that in a future post.