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LaTwan Anderson (official thread)

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Glenville 47, Collinwood 6

Tarblooders quarterback Demetrius Craig completed 7 of 9 passes for 121 yards and two touchdowns, and had a 20-yard scoring scamper in the Senate Athletic League victory. Christian Bryant had a 42-yard touchdown reception and finished with two catches for 45 yards, while Latwan Anderson carried the ball once for a 63-yard touchdown.

Glenville is ranked No. 2 in The Plain Dealer and fifth in the Division I state poll.
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Recruiting Update

Speaking of academics, the last thing we heard from Latwan Anderson was he favored West Virginia. He has offers from Georgia and Miami, and supposedly from Ohio State, but he favors West Virginia? I don't know if he has an offer. If I was to talk to Latwan I would not ask him if he has a Buckeye offer. I would ask him if I could see a transcript and a copy of his test score. Being drowned out in the yes, he does have an offer/No, he doesn't have an offer argument is something I believe to be the truth. His offer is conditional. Get your grades and the offer is there. I am finding no consensus even with that. Some say he will make it. Others say he won't and that is why the offer was made. The Buckeye staff knows he won't make it so they made the offer to keep the pipeline running smoothly but not have to take a player that they don't see as a good fit.
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The Buckeye staff knows he won't make it so they made the offer to keep the pipeline running smoothly but not have to take a player that they don't see as a good fit.
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Sorry, but I don't buy it. Extending an offer then subsequently refusing a commitment is worse than not making the offer at all. Ohio State doesn't resort to making a token offer to any Glenville kid just to "keep the pipeline open"...that piepline will open as long as Tressel and Ginn, Sr. are at their respective positions.
 
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Agreed...offer = Buckeye unless your name rhymes with Mordale Schmott. Curtis Smith rings a bell. If OSU has "offically offered" Latwan, he is a Buckeye when the time comes. If not...I'll be the first to come back here and admit I was wrong.
 
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Mr. Bucknuts is full of it, as per usual. They wouldn't offer the kid this early if, A. They didn't think he could qualify, and B. They didn't think he would commit.

Braxton Miller spilled the beans on this one 2 weeks ago...
 
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I don't know Mili, maybe I've been watching too many conspiracy theories on History channel but How many times under Tress has a kid failed to make it in do to grades? Of those kids in the past 5 years how many came from Glenville? Unless I'm forgetting someone all of them but one came from the Ville and that was this season (Hyde).

History shows Tress will also take Glenville kids that barely make through tOSU admissions standards (Small, Hines). You can't say that about most other players coming in under Tress' and the admissions watch. Seems like there is some favorship going on.

Its a legit question in my opinion, does tOSU offer some of these kids as show of goodwill to Glenville? In truth what does it hurt tOSU to conditionally offer a kid? Nada.

That said, I do hope Anderson qualifies. I like his speed, burst and aggressiveness. He'll need to be a better all around football player and raise his game awareness however before he sees PT here.
 
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lord vegas;1554593; said:
I don't know Mili, maybe I've been watching too many conspiracy theories on History channel but How many times under Tress has a kid failed to make it in do to grades? Of those kids in the past 5 years how many came from Glenville? Unless I'm forgetting someone all of them but one came from the Ville and that was this season (Hyde).

History shows Tress will also take Glenville kids that barely make through tOSU admissions standards (Small, Hines). You can't say that about most other players coming in under Tress' and the admissions watch. Seems like there is some favorship going on.

Its a legit question in my opinion, does tOSU offer some of these kids as show of goodwill to Glenville? In truth what does it hurt tOSU to conditionally offer a kid? Nada.

That said, I do hope Anderson qualifies. I like his speed, burst and aggressiveness. He'll need to be a better all around football player and raise his game awareness however before he sees PT here.
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OSU doesn't make offers if they know the kid will not qualify just to make an offer. The difference is making an offer and hoping the kid gets in as in your example versus making an offer to a kid that you already know will not get in just to make an offer to keep the pipeline open which is what the link implies.
 
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lord vegas;1554593; said:
I don't know Mili, maybe I've been watching too many conspiracy theories on History channel but How many times under Tress has a kid failed to make it in do to grades? Of those kids in the past 5 years how many came from Glenville? Unless I'm forgetting someone all of them but one came from the Ville and that was this season (Hyde).
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You talking DNQs straight out of high school?

Quinton Thomas - 2001
Derek Morris - 2002
Dennis Kennedy - 2004
Freddie Lenix - 2005
Shaq Rowell - 2008
Carlos Hyde - 2009

2 Tarblooders out of 6 non-qualifiers.

Extend it to guys who failed out or got themselves declared persona non grata and you only really add Hiley from the Glenville grads.
 
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Does Mr. Bucknuts just guess for his column? It's literally utter trash anymore.

Ohio State has a strong enough relationship with Glenville that they do not need to offer someone who has no chance of getting in. Programs do that to maintain relationships with coaches; not to make a token gesture for a program in their back pocket.

If OSU needed to do this then you can bet all you have that they would have offered Mike Edwards last year. Kid was a gamer, but could not get in to Ohio State with his grades.

It's pretty insulting to Latwan to put this out there in an 'official' recruiting update. LA has a legitimate offer. There was a reason OSU waited before offering him.
 
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Agree 100%...

If OSU was going to make a token offer knowing it wouldn't hold, they could have offered months ago...Why would they wait until September 10th to finally pull the trigger on a "token offer"? I'm sure it had nothing to do with what the kids proven since he's been under Coach Ginn...



DontHateOState;1554967; said:
Does Mr. Bucknuts just guess for his column? It's literally utter trash anymore.

Ohio State has a strong enough relationship with Glenville that they do not need to offer someone who has no chance of getting in. Programs do that to maintain relationships with coaches; not to make a token gesture for a program in their back pocket.

If OSU needed to do this then you can bet all you have that they would have offered Mike Edwards last year. Kid was a gamer, but could not get in to Ohio State with his grades.

It's pretty insulting to Latwan to put this out there in an 'official' recruiting update. LA has a legitimate offer. There was a reason OSU waited before offering him.
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