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Heard Around the ‘Shoe – 9/7/2016
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Welcome to your tri-weekly look at all things Ohio State recruiting. Let’s get started!
2018 In-State Offer for Defensive Tackle:
The Buckeyes haven’t offered many in-state players for the class of 2018, and it is not because the state is not loaded with talent. Yesterday the Buckeyes offered 3-star defensive tackle Aeneas Hawkins from Archbishop Moeller in Cincinnati. Hawkins is one of the top 20 players in the state of Ohio for the class of 2018.
Hawkins lists 14 offers to date, and those include Florida State, Notre Dame and Florida among others. Hawkins spoke to Eleven Warriors yesterday after he received the offer:
“It’s a big deal man,” Hawkins told Eleven Warriors. “It’s been a big goal of mine to try and earn an offer from them, and to be blessed with this opportunity means a lot. Ohio State is right up there with anyone right now.”
He also told 11W that he plans on making a trip up to Ohio State soon to see the Buckeyes in action and to speak with Coach Larry Johnson.
Bishop Gorman Buckeyes:
In case you have been under a rock for the past few months, Ohio State has gone west in the recruiting trail and struck gold in Las Vegas at Bishop Gorman High School. They first landed defensive tackle Haskell Garrett in a surprise commitment back in February. Then came Tate Martell who switched his verbal from Texas A&M to the Buckeyes back in June. Finally Tyjon Lindsey joined his fellow Gaels in committing to the Buckeyes just last month in a video with fellow commit Trevon Grimes.
The Buckeyes certainly have their sights set on Bishop Gorman as yesterday they offered yet another teammate of theirs in Bubba Bolden. Bolden is a 4-star safety ranked as the #94 player in the nation for the class of 2017. He currently lists 20 offers to date, and his crystal ball predictions have Arizona State at 67% and Southern Cal at 33%.
Tate Martell took to Twitter shortly after the offer was announced making sure everyone knew that getting Bubba to Ohio State was a top priority.
Speaking of Martell, he posted a poll on Twitter asking what game he should make his official visit and the winner ended up being Nebraska on November 5th. He was asked why he couldn’t make it for the big game against Michigan and he stated that he has his teams state semifinal game that weekend.
Baron Browning Update:
What you read on the internet is not always true. No really, it’s not, trust me. Let’s take for example the case of Baron Browning’s recruitment. Last week it was reported that Ohio State had slowed down the recruitment of the 5-star linebacker from Texas. As my good friend Lee Corso would say, not so fast my friend. Browning spoke to the SECCountry’s Chris Kirschner and cleared the air.
“That’s not even true. The dude who tweeted that out really needs to delete his account,” Browning told Kirschner following his game on Friday. “They just need to be banned from Twitter. I don’t even know why that came up. People just tweet whatever and everyone starts believing it. I talked to (Urban) Meyer the same day and he told me they want me to commit ASAP. It was a guy from Texas who tweeted that (Ohio State was dropping), so it wasn’t like it was one of the (Buckeyes) guys.”
Browning told Kirschner that his dad spoke to Coach Urban Meyer and that everything was good between the two parties. Browning was on hand Sunday as Texas defeated Notre Dame 50-47 in one of the weekends most exciting games. He will make a trip to Columbus for The Game on November 26th, which will be three days before his scheduled announcement date of November 29th.
I expect the Buckeyes to remain in this one until the end, and I still think he ends up in this class.
Another Texas Star Reaffirms Pledge:
The recruitment of JK Dobbins has been interesting of late. It was reported that if the Buckeyes were going to take another running back (Cam Akers), that Dobbins would start to look elsewhere as he said other programs told him he would be the only back they would take in this class. The Buckeyes lack of depth at the running back position after this season means the Buckeyes need to take two in this class, so nabbing Dobbins and Akers would be ideal.
Dobbins spoke to 247 Sports ($) Steve Wiltfong on Monday after his visit to Texas for the Notre Dame game, “I have a home, and it’s the Ohio State Buckeyes,” Dobbins said. “Texas looked really good though.”
A name to watch if Dobbins does go elsewhere is 3-star back from Pickerington Morgan Ellison, who I believe will be a star at the next level but is under recruited because of injuries the past couple of seasons.
Former Buckeye Lands at Toledo:
The recruiting class of 2016 lost two members before they started fall camp this year and one of them, 3-star defensive back Kareem Felder, has found a new home.
Ohio State transfer Kareem Felder is enrolled at classes at Toledo & will join the football program. He was a 3-star DB coming out of HS.
— Jordan Strack (@JordanStrack) September 5, 2016
Felder was deemed ineligible to enroll at Ohio State due to academic reasons.
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Ben van Ooyen via our good friends at Buckeye Battle Cry
Visit their fantastic blog and read the full article (and so much more) here
Welcome to your tri-weekly look at all things Ohio State recruiting. Let’s get started!
2018 In-State Offer for Defensive Tackle:
The Buckeyes haven’t offered many in-state players for the class of 2018, and it is not because the state is not loaded with talent. Yesterday the Buckeyes offered 3-star defensive tackle Aeneas Hawkins from Archbishop Moeller in Cincinnati. Hawkins is one of the top 20 players in the state of Ohio for the class of 2018.
Hawkins lists 14 offers to date, and those include Florida State, Notre Dame and Florida among others. Hawkins spoke to Eleven Warriors yesterday after he received the offer:
“It’s a big deal man,” Hawkins told Eleven Warriors. “It’s been a big goal of mine to try and earn an offer from them, and to be blessed with this opportunity means a lot. Ohio State is right up there with anyone right now.”
He also told 11W that he plans on making a trip up to Ohio State soon to see the Buckeyes in action and to speak with Coach Larry Johnson.
Bishop Gorman Buckeyes:
In case you have been under a rock for the past few months, Ohio State has gone west in the recruiting trail and struck gold in Las Vegas at Bishop Gorman High School. They first landed defensive tackle Haskell Garrett in a surprise commitment back in February. Then came Tate Martell who switched his verbal from Texas A&M to the Buckeyes back in June. Finally Tyjon Lindsey joined his fellow Gaels in committing to the Buckeyes just last month in a video with fellow commit Trevon Grimes.
The Buckeyes certainly have their sights set on Bishop Gorman as yesterday they offered yet another teammate of theirs in Bubba Bolden. Bolden is a 4-star safety ranked as the #94 player in the nation for the class of 2017. He currently lists 20 offers to date, and his crystal ball predictions have Arizona State at 67% and Southern Cal at 33%.
Tate Martell took to Twitter shortly after the offer was announced making sure everyone knew that getting Bubba to Ohio State was a top priority.
Speaking of Martell, he posted a poll on Twitter asking what game he should make his official visit and the winner ended up being Nebraska on November 5th. He was asked why he couldn’t make it for the big game against Michigan and he stated that he has his teams state semifinal game that weekend.
Baron Browning Update:
What you read on the internet is not always true. No really, it’s not, trust me. Let’s take for example the case of Baron Browning’s recruitment. Last week it was reported that Ohio State had slowed down the recruitment of the 5-star linebacker from Texas. As my good friend Lee Corso would say, not so fast my friend. Browning spoke to the SECCountry’s Chris Kirschner and cleared the air.
“That’s not even true. The dude who tweeted that out really needs to delete his account,” Browning told Kirschner following his game on Friday. “They just need to be banned from Twitter. I don’t even know why that came up. People just tweet whatever and everyone starts believing it. I talked to (Urban) Meyer the same day and he told me they want me to commit ASAP. It was a guy from Texas who tweeted that (Ohio State was dropping), so it wasn’t like it was one of the (Buckeyes) guys.”
Browning told Kirschner that his dad spoke to Coach Urban Meyer and that everything was good between the two parties. Browning was on hand Sunday as Texas defeated Notre Dame 50-47 in one of the weekends most exciting games. He will make a trip to Columbus for The Game on November 26th, which will be three days before his scheduled announcement date of November 29th.
I expect the Buckeyes to remain in this one until the end, and I still think he ends up in this class.
Another Texas Star Reaffirms Pledge:
The recruitment of JK Dobbins has been interesting of late. It was reported that if the Buckeyes were going to take another running back (Cam Akers), that Dobbins would start to look elsewhere as he said other programs told him he would be the only back they would take in this class. The Buckeyes lack of depth at the running back position after this season means the Buckeyes need to take two in this class, so nabbing Dobbins and Akers would be ideal.
Dobbins spoke to 247 Sports ($) Steve Wiltfong on Monday after his visit to Texas for the Notre Dame game, “I have a home, and it’s the Ohio State Buckeyes,” Dobbins said. “Texas looked really good though.”
A name to watch if Dobbins does go elsewhere is 3-star back from Pickerington Morgan Ellison, who I believe will be a star at the next level but is under recruited because of injuries the past couple of seasons.
Former Buckeye Lands at Toledo:
The recruiting class of 2016 lost two members before they started fall camp this year and one of them, 3-star defensive back Kareem Felder, has found a new home.
Ohio State transfer Kareem Felder is enrolled at classes at Toledo & will join the football program. He was a 3-star DB coming out of HS.
— Jordan Strack (@JordanStrack) September 5, 2016
Felder was deemed ineligible to enroll at Ohio State due to academic reasons.
The post Heard Around the ‘Shoe – 9/7/2016 appeared first on The Buckeye Battle Cry: Ohio State News and Commentary.
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