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'12 OH S George "Bam" Bradley (Pittsburgh Signee)

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Trotwood survives, advances to state title game

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E.L. Hubbard - Trotwood-Madison safety Bam Bradley runs back an interception for a touchdown as teammate Cameron Burrows blocks against Marion-Franklin in the first half of their Division II semifinal game at Northmont High School's Good Samaritan Stadium Friday, Nov. 25, 2011.
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Trotwood football talent on OSU's radar
The Rams haven?t sent a player to Ohio State since 1996.
By Marc F. Pendleton, Staff Writer
Updated Saturday, December 17, 2011

Ohio State University football coaches always have beaten a path to land the Miami Valley?s best players. Running backs Leo Hayden of Roth High School (mid-1960s), Keith Byars of Roth (early ?80s) and Alter center Nick Mangold (early 2000s) are just a few that span the eras of some of the Buckeyes? greatest teams.

For most Ohio high school football coaches, it gets no better than sending a player to Columbus. That?s why it stung so much when the Jim Tressel era (2000-10) didn?t include one of the area?s most successful programs, Trotwood-Madison.

?We always felt like if they wanted to get black kids out of Ohio, they went to (Cleveland) Glenville,? said George ?Bam? Bradley, the Rams? highly sought-after senior defensive back.

?It was like there was nothing down south. (Tressel) recruited the way he wanted to recruit. There wasn?t nothing that we could do about it.?

With consecutive appearances in the Division II state championship game and a 2011 state title, no area team has come close to what the Rams have done on the field the past two seasons. But the Rams haven?t come close to matching OSU?s area recruits the past decade.

Not counting Will Allen, who transferred from Trotwood to Wayne for his senior year, the Rams haven?t sent a player to Ohio State since tight end John Lumpkin (1996-98), who was recruited by John Cooper.

In contrast, Centerville has had five players at OSU in that time.

?It?s been something that I?ve wondered about, literally, for years,? said Columbus-based Duane Long of the recruiting service Scout.com.

?I?ve asked people what they?ve thought; I?ve talked about it on the Internet and talked about it privately. Nobody could come up with an explanation why,? Long said.

That could change Feb. 1, Signing Day for football. Although uncommitted, Bradley took an official visit to OSU this weekend.

He?s already deleted Penn State from his favorites because of the Jerry Sandusky scandal. Pittsburgh also was in his final four, but that was before former head coach Todd Graham announced via Twitter that he was bolting to Arizona State.

That leaves Bradley with OSU and Stanford, and the heat to verbally commit before Signing Day is on.

He said that he intends to announce his decision during the Semper Fidelis All-American Bowl Game at Phoenix on Jan. 3. He?ll play for the East team and T-M coach Maurice Douglass will serve as an East assistant.
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http://www.daytondailynews.com/dayt...od-football-talent-on-osus-radar-1300862.html
 
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Bam Bradley said:
"We always felt like if they wanted to get black kids out of Ohio, they went to (Cleveland) Glenville," said George "Bam" Bradley, the Rams' highly sought-after senior defensive back.

"It was like there was nothing down south. (Tressel) recruited the way he wanted to recruit. There wasn?t nothing that we could do about it."
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Or Cleveland JFK ... St. Edwards ... Euclid ... Bedford ... Garfield Heights ... Warrensville Heights ... Shaker Heights ... Brush ... Shaw ... Solon ... Nordonia ... Painesville Harvey ... Elyria ... Toldeo Rogers ... Toledo Whitmer ... Youngstown Ursuline ... Warren Harding ... Hubbard ... Boardman ... Akron Garfield ... Akron SVSM ... Akron Buchtel ... Canton South ... Canton GlenOak ... Canton McKinley ... Massillon Washington ... Steubenville ... Columbus Independence ... Columbus Brookhaven ... Columbus Beechcroft ... Columbus Eastmoor ... Columbus DeSales ... Columbus Marion Franklin ... Olentangy ... Dublin Scioto ... Dublin Coffman ... Pickerington Central ... London ... Piqua ... Dayton Chaminade Julienne .... Lakota West ... Huber Height Wayne ... Clayton Northmont ... Middletown ... Hamilton ... Cincinnati Colerain ... Cincinnati LaSalle ... Cincinnati Taft ... Centerville ...

Yes, even Chagrin Falls, which is literally 99% white.

Other than that, it's an accurate statement. :roll1:
 
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LJB, agreed. Sometimes people build fires where there is no firewood (how's that for a Sunday am homily?). Building a football team should be and mainly is colorblind. OSU has always had a 'the best player plays' attitude. Not certain why that area was 'overlooked', or if it even was, but perception is many times reality. That certainly could be reality for those kids.

You have refuted that statement exceptionally, and a look at the team makeup would also refute it as well, so it appears that it's easier to pin the blame elsewhere than being introspective. Could it have been that the HS programs didn't run college offensive or defensive sets? Or not the current ones? Maybe the kid projects not as well as another. If you limit the whole state of Ohio to 22 kids, notwithstanding positional need, then there are certainly many HS talents that will not be selected.

By the way, I've always wondered why there's NEVER been a kid from Columbus Whetstone selected to the Buckeyes. After all, both schools rest on the Olentangy River, so that ought to count for something, shouldn't it?


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calibuck;2066559; said:
Sometimes people build fires where there is no firewood (how's that for a Sunday am homily?).
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This situation smacks of a teenager being hit up with a leading question, so that a reporter can promote an agenda (Jim Tressel / Ohio State is racist).
 
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Wow, a 17yo that said something dumb in an interview. Nothing to see here. Im sure. This kid is a little bitter that osu didn't go after some former trotwood kids as hard as he would've wanted. Kids say the darnedest things, didn't TP say something last year to the tune that he saw nothing wrong with anything Michael vick did and that people kill all the time? Eventually maturity will set in with kids over time
 
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The kid's just repeating what's been drunned into his head for years.

The 800 pound gorilla in the room is ...academic qualification.

Bam is a great student and got offered.
Most of the other kids who may have had the talent were borderline academically.
 
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Don't really know where to put this since I can't find the original thread, but Bam's quote brings back memories of a similar accusation from his HS coach.

?That was the worst-officiated game. They took the game out of the kids? hands,? said Douglass, after spending nearly 30 minutes in the locker room with his players. ?They made a lot of calls because the guy on the other sideline, Jay Minton, has been coaching more than me and doesn?t look like me.?
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http://www.buckeyeplanet.com/forum/link
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There was also controversy involving the HS coach recruiting players for other schools to join, for which he was suspended and the school placed on probation.

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Maybe JT didn't like who was molding the young men down there.....
 
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It's interesting that Duane Long couldn't find anyone to explain the issues with Trotwood to him and yet two people in this thread correctly identified the problem the same day it was mentioned on this board.

The issues with the Trotwood school system & Mo Doug aren't exactly a secret in the Miami Valley. The real question is why Larry Johnson Sr. never set up shop there.
 
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