'09 PA ATH E.J. Banks (Notre Dame Verbal)

[jimotis4heisman]

Also, given the family tie to Ohio State (Joey Galloway's cousin), PSU coaches may consider EJ Bank an uphill battle to start with. It is like Mike Zordich was an uphill battle for Ohio State even though he lives in Youngstown. So is really PSU the in-state school? I am not sure. And the way recruiting is going in the past couple of years, Ohio State may well be the home team in western PA.

pitt and wvu are the "home team" for wpa. central and eastern (scranton, philly) is more psu area.

 

[AFK4403]

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E.J. has scheduled a visit to Columbus this weekend with his parents. He would like to take all 5 officials and is down to a final 6 of OSU, ND, WVU, Virginia Tech, Rutgers, and Wake Forest.

 

[itownbuckeye]

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E.J. has scheduled a visit to Columbus this weekend with his parents. He would like to take all 5 officials and is down to a final 6 of OSU, ND, WVU, Virginia Tech, Rutgers, and Wake Forest.

Also in that article, E.J. pretty much states that OSU will hold a spot for him.

 

[OSUBuckeye4Life]

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06/21

By Heath Schneider...Banks did not attend the OSU camp due to his team being at Pitt for camp. His top 4 are Ohio State, Notre Dame, West Virginia, and Wake Forest. Banks plans on coming to Columbus this weekend and would like to decide by this fall on his college choice.

 

[MD Buckeye]

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6/23

From BG....Talks about his visit to Ohio State and his interest in Ohio State. Top 5 of Ohio State, Notre Dame, West Virginia, Virginia Tech & Pittsburgh. Plans to visit Notre Dame this week.

 

[wadc45]

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6/23

From the Pitt site...says he is down to Ohio State, Notre Dame, Rutgers, West Virginia, Pitt and Wake Forest. He will visit Pitt later this week and talks about his senior class and the upcoming season.

 

[wadc45]

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6/25

From the WVU site...talks about working with the coaches at the WVU camp on Tuesday. Will officially visit West Virginia, Ohio State, Notre Dame and one other school before deciding.

 

[HotMic]

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6/29

From the ND site. Banks enjoyed his visit to Notre Dame and talking with the coaches. He will visit Rutgers and says he may verbal shortly after that. He again states that Ohio State has told him they will hold a spot.

 

[Crashcup]

Holding a scholarship is fine and all but numbers are still numbers.

Is David Stockman in charge of these numbers per chance?

 

[brutus2002]

On a PSU site one of the posters who is a coach that has lined up against Banks said he will be an all-amercian safety in college. The guy went on to say PSU has screwed up by letting OSU get the best linebacker and two best DB's in the state.

I don't understand why people are questioning the spot being saved. The kid is a flat out stud.

 

[brutus2002]

I remember certain individuals at various recruiting sites not being too excited about Anderson Russell. A kid that played in a wishbone offense as a runningback. The coach I talked to said that this kid has the potential to be a AA safety...considering he has coached 4-5 PA state championship teams and coached on the PA big33 staff I'll listen to what he has to say. He also said at this rate OSU will own the B10 if teams do not stop letting Tressel to recruit the midwest like he has the last two years.

 

[OregonBuckeye]

He also said at this rate OSU will own the B10 if teams do not stop letting Tressel to recruit the midwest like he has the last two years.

He doesn't already?

 

[brutus2002]

Yep...thats kinda his point that these two classes are setting us up for the long term. Back to Banks

 

[OregonBuckeye]

Yep...thats kinda his point that these two classes are setting us up for the long term. Back to Banks

Ok, but he said we will own the conference as if we don't already.

 

[osugrad21]

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E.J. says he came close to committing to Notre Dame and his parents loved South Bend.