Urban Myth about redshirting

Last night there was another set of arguments one the forums regarding Urban's "We don't redshirt at Ohio State" quote.  Being pretty sure he meant the comment as a recruiting tool I decided to look at his history. Below is a 5 year summary of freshmen recruits that Urban had the opportunity to redshirt.

Ohio State under Jim Tressel redshirted about half his players which is the same that Urban Meyer did at Florida.

Urban's comment is saying that he never purposely recruits projects or players he expects to redshirt. His exact quote was:

In your experience, and understanding every player is different, how long does it take players with that talent level to make an impact on the field?

UM: We're going to rotate them right away. We don't redshirt here at Ohio State. We're changing that up. We're going to have the culture out here that there's no redshirting. If you don't play here, it's because you're not good enough. It's not because we're holding you back. We're going to recruit the kind of player where we want them on the field right now. That's the approach we took at Florida, and it's the approach we're going to take here.

He said that so recruits know he expects them to play immediately and if they don't make it it's because of a combination of inexperience and effort. If they do perform they won't get lost behind an upperclassman. It helps recruiting because all high school seniors think they are ready for college football and they all want to go where they have a chance to play immediately. Urban is also telling upperclassmen that any preferential treatment they get is earned every day.

None of this means that Urban doesn't redshirt. He does it as much as anyone.