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Joseph Barksdale (OL Arizona Cardinals)

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unionfutura said:
I wrote an email about this to the recruiting team, if you feel like it post in the rumor mill, but here's the scoop with this kid:

Barksdale wanted to commit to OSU prior to the February 2006 signing day. OSU told him they wanted to see him get into better shape and they'll offer him at the NIKE combine (they ended up sooner due to the Michigan commitment). The kid worked his ass off, and got himself into pretty decent shape. He went to the Army All American Junior combine and blew up, Michigan started to show him love, (they offered him during the summer the year before, but as an OG and really didn't push him too hard) and he committed to them at a UM basketball game in February.

Now JT loves to steal a recruit or two from Michigan, so OSU kept recruiting Joe like nothing happened, and offered him soon afterward, and he committed on the spot. Michigan hears this and drops him, that's a policy of theirs if a kid changes his mind they drop them (So many to think of but Justin King, Nic Harris, Thad Gibson, Dionte Allen), no going back, their feeling is they can't trust you so goodbye, I love OSU and the way the handle business on the field compared to Michigan, but I wish we took this policy from them, especially with our elite status in CFB.

Fast forward to his trip to Austin in July and he commits to Texas, in which they throw a quick party for him and his dad when he commits. Right there JT should have dropped him, I remember saying to him that this is one of those kids who believes he's above the program, but JT claimed that the bottom line is that it makes sense for him to come to OSU at the end of the day especially since Michigan dropped him. The only true worry was ND. Joe committed to OSU 3 times folks. once after the Michigan commitment, once after the Texas commitment, and once after the ND commitment, before settling on LSU two weeks prior to christmas. It was a debacle.
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Thad Gibson committed to michigan? Care to elaborate a little on the circumstances? (sorry for hijack)
 
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CleveBucks;715786; said:
Thad Gibson committed to michigan? Care to elaborate a little on the circumstances? (sorry for hijack)
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oh yeah he committed on his visit, pretty quickly I might add, spent most of his visit meeting players, introducing himself as their future teammate etc.l. When he went back to Ohio, Michigan couldn't get him to return their phone calls.
 
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I just noticed on Rivals that LSU has just gotten a verbal from another DT, that makes 4, plus their DE verbal is listed at 6'3 285. In case anyone is wondering about posititon change to OL, they also have 5 OL verbals. Does anyone think this might give JB second thoughts?
 
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flybuckeye;719074; said:
Does anyone think this might give JB second thoughts?
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This kid's permanent nickname should be "Second Thoughts". To respond to the question though, he seems pretty committed to this whole LSU thing, especially making it so public and all. BUT...you never know. 18 year olds have funny minds and there's that whole, never say never thing. We'll see.
 
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flybuckeye;719074; said:
I just noticed on Rivals that LSU has just gotten a verbal from another DT, that makes 4, plus their DE verbal is listed at 6'3 285. In case anyone is wondering about posititon change to OL, they also have 5 OL verbals. Does anyone think this might give JB second thoughts?
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He started school there today... He's not going to reconsider...
 
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flybuckeye;719074; said:
I just noticed on Rivals that LSU has just gotten a verbal from another DT, that makes 4, plus their DE verbal is listed at 6'3 285. In case anyone is wondering about posititon change to OL, they also have 5 OL verbals. Does anyone think this might give JB second thoughts?
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i'm more concerned with how that affects Cameron Heyward. hopefully this drops lsu out of the running.
 
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Frohlich;719168; said:
I heard from my source at LSU this morning that he already told the Physics 101 teacher he would take his course but then at the last second went to Chemistry 101. The faculty said they liked his raw potential but rumor is he might end up in Biology before everything is said and done. Stay tuned.
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Really, my source indicates Goeography 101 leads at this point and he has dropped chemistry from his list.(Trust me JB, good move... CHEM STINKS!!!)
 
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