On Saturday – despite a delayed flight that had Burkhalter walking into the stadium on Penn State’s first possession – he reunited with Day in the locker room after the game and then reunited with an old friend, JC Latham, who is a highly prized Ohio State target.
Latham and Burkhalter were teammates at IMG Academy last spring before Burkhalter eventually transferred back home for family reasons.
“JC was cool,” Burkhalter told Eleven Warriors. “He was really good friends with my roommates so I started becoming friends with him. He’s a really good player. I asked him, ‘Are you thinking about committing here?’ He said ‘Yeah, I put ‘em in my top 10.’”
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“I’m just trying to find a place that fits me, not necessarily the best team,” Burkhalter said. “Ohio State’s definitely the best team out there to offer me, but at the end of the day, you’ve gotta go somewhere that feels like home and all that good stuff. It’s really gotta be a home feeling. It’s gotta be somewhere my parents can get to easily. I would like to live in a cool location. That’s gonna play a big factor. And just a really good university, somewhere that has really good academics and has something I wanna study.
“The coaching staff can change, but the coaches I need to feel comfortable with and a great fan base.”
