Jadeveon Clowney (DE Carolina Panthers)

[stowfan]

I was very pleasantly surprised when I clicked on, and found his thread down here again. Have to add, in 40 years of watching high school football, I've never seen what I saw in that film. Hey, even if we don't get him, at least we're loaded with quality DEs for years to come.

 

[MaxBuck]

also any chance he may be scared away by how many DE's we already have in this class?

Zero. He plans on playing on day 1

And he will.

Even if he matriculates in Green Bay.

 

[westbuck04]

If I had a time machine, I'd go back about 10 years and show this film to a Columbus-area business man who could offer Jadeveon's mother a nice job.

 

[Mike80]

If I had a time machine, I'd go back about 10 years and show this film to a Columbus-area business man who could offer Jadeveon's mother a nice job.

So you would use your time machine to knowingly violate NCAA rules?

 

[Meyer]

So you would use your time machine to knowingly violate NCAA rules?

I wouldn't take it so literal...:osu:

 

[Merih]

Ronald Powell, who was a freak in his own right, has nothing on this kid coming out of HS.

 

[westbuck04]

So you would use your time machine to knowingly violate NCAA rules?

Yes.

I would also buy a sports almanac so I could place a couple bets. I'm a bad person.

 

[BuckTwenty]

I don't have the inside scoop on him, but if he's reaching out to our coaching staff like that, that's a great sign. Think Texas LB Anthony Wallace from this same class. Fantastic, talented kid that can go pretty much anywhere he wants for school and he's going out of his way to "recruit" our coaches to recruit him. That's saying something.

That said, I'm not getting my hopes up on Jadeveon. Southern boys generally stay close to home and his top two have been the upstart school in his home state and the reigning national champion for quite some time. Until something changes with those two, we are a dark horse in this race.

 

[GeorgiaBuck2]

I would loooooove to see him in this class. Him along with Miller, Hayes, Farris, Bennett, and Hale would make a dynamite class in terms of the D-Line. And then to go along with next years class? Dang.

 

[bukIpower]

Does he plan on enrolling early?

Also could you imagine him and Nathan on passing downs? woah...

 

[pharaz1]

it would be nice to see braxton or someone in this year's recruiting class helping the staff out on this one

 

[billmac91]

If I had a time machine, I'd go back about 10 years and show this film to a Columbus-area business man who could offer Jadeveon's mother a nice job.

You sound like Arkansas basketball, Arizona bball, etc....

Just is what it is....not fair to Clowney though. Nothing says this will happen in his recruitment. It only happens to players whose parents have their hands open....

This kid would be beyond icing on the cake....

 

[Joe6809]

It's odd that this news broke the same day Shell got his verbal offer. Both recruitments are situations where we're already deep at their position, but as people have said, you take the best that's out there. When you have a shot at total game changers like these two appear to be, you do whatever you can (within the rules) to get them.

 

[HotMic]

Awesome! Ohio State's chances went from 0% to 1%. :tongue2:





Seriously though, if he has concerns about Alabama being too far from home, its hard to picture him coming to Ohio State.

 

[GoodLifeSean]

Columbus is only 8 hours from Rock Hill SC and that's in an overloaded budget rental truck. Plus he's always got the colors and JT's homestyle environment.