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LB Conner Crowell (official thread)

wadc45;1859341; said:
Good hips for a HS LB...love the tackle at the 1:00 mark. Would have loved to have seen what he could have done against some of the competition at one of the major all-star games. I think he is that good...

Absolute freak athlete... You don't put up SPARQ numbers like his every day... Teach him the finer things and we'll have one heckuva LB on our hands...
 
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Bears reposting if this is already on here:

[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ESEwK16AkIE&feature=related"]YouTube - CONNER CROWELL FEATURE (2010)[/ame]
 
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Wow, he's even better on his senior film. I've maintained that I think Crowell is a top 100 guy, even before he commited here. In no way have I changed my thoughts after that film, Crowell is a gap-shooting nightmare.
 
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Bringing his sweater vest
Ohio State's Tressel finalizes recruitment of Eagles' Crowell
Wednesday, Jan. 26, 2011
By DALLAS COGLE
Staff writer

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Staff photo by DALLAS COGLE
The large turnout of North Point winter sports athletes listens to Ohio State Buckeyes head coach Jim Tressel as he motivates and inspires the students to do their best in the gym before they headed out to their respective practices. The athletes took in the 10-minute speech from Tressel while he was at the school Monday.

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Staff photo by DALLAS COGLE
Ohio State Buckeyes head coach Jim Tressel arrived to North Point on Monday to see one of his prized recruits in linebacker Conner Crowell. After meeting with Crowell, Tressel addressed North Point's winter sports athletes in the gym before their team practices.

His signature sweater vest with the Ohio State Buckeyes logo concealed under a dress blazer, overtop of a scarlet-and-gray-striped tie, was hardly needed to identify one of the most recognizable head coaches in college football when he set foot in North Point on Monday afternoon, sending off a buzz throughout the high school.

To current and former Ohioans, who are all ? it seems ? Buckeyes fans, his persona and distinction is more like that of a U.S. president. To everyone else, he's a household name ? at least to sports fans.

Now, Jim Tressel finds himself heavily saturated in the recruiting scene. And that's what brought him to Charles County to kick off this week, just nine days before high school football's holiest happening ? National Signing Day.

North Point linebacker Conner Crowell is among Ohio State's blue-chip recruits for its class of 2011, and Tressel's presence at North Point was the final step in consummating the Buckeyes to the reigning Southern Maryland Athletic Conference and Charles County Most Valuable Player.

All that's left is for Crowell to sign on the dotted line next Wednesday.

"The interesting thing in my particular world is I usually don't get called into a school unless there's a great player. That's just the way it is because I'm only allowed to go out once," Tressel said, just three weeks removed from leading the Buckeyes to a second straight BCS win in the Sugar Bowl. "By NCAA rules, I'm allowed to go to each prospect's high school and/or home one time ? and that has to be on the same day. So I can meet [Crowell], in essence, one time off of our campus. Now a prospective student-athlete can come to our campus for what they call unofficial visits an unlimited number of times. So Conner has been in for a visit, and he's gotten to know our guys and our coaches.

"The only thing we're allowed to say about a prospective student-athlete is that we do have interest in them. And we do have interest in Conner."

Currently, Crowell still is hobbling around on crutches after breaking his ankle in what quickly became his final high school game in a November playoff loss in the Class 4A East Region semifinals ? one week after all of the pomp and circumstance in deciding to take his talents to Ohio State. He's slated for a full recovery in March.

"I've met him a couple times," Crowell said about his encounters with Tressel. "It's really exciting. It's pretty cool to be walking around with him in school, and all these people just love him. He's coming down here to get to know me better and see where I come from, just to learn a little bit more about me. So when I go up to Ohio State, he'll be like, ?Hey, how's Waldorf doing? How's your school doing?'"

Cont...

http://www.somdnews.com/stories/01262011/indytop173520_32421.shtml
 
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Coach Fickell (and I'm paraphrasing): "Might be one of our first Hawaiians...asked us on his official how many Hawaiians there were on campus."

Just when you think you've heard every question from a recruit...
 
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Staff photo by EMILY BARNES
As his parents, Lori, left, and Rich, look on, North Point senior Conner Crowell puts on the Ohio State University hat after signing his football scholarship Wednesday.

"It has been like a rollercoaster, it's been really exciting," the 6-foot-1, 220-pound Crowell said of his recruitment at outside linebacker, ranked 24th in the country by Rivals and 69th by ESPNU. A staggering 13 offers had come his way by last summer from the likes of Maryland, West Virginia, Virginia, Stanford, Hawaii, Kansas State and his top two options, Ohio State and Penn State.

"All the experiences I've been through a lot of kids will never experience in their life," he said. "It was crazy, and it was definitely a blessing. It was fun to go through, having a lot of attention. To have all these people wanting you ? it's a good feeling.

"[Being heavily recruited] is not as hard as people think it is. I did enjoy it. Some people don't, but I really did. It was fun for me."

"Every kid doesn't go off and play at the next level," North Point head football coach Ken Lane added. "So far, this is our biggest [signing in North Point history]. It's fun. You learn a lot. It's just neat. It's a sad day that they're leaving, but it's a great day because they get to go on and do better things."

On hand for Crowell's signing were family, teammates and captains of each North Point athletic team, from the freshman to varsity levels.

Crowell's father, Rich, said, "I've [been] very proud of him. We've been looking forward to this for three years now. It's been exciting. It was tough between Penn State and Ohio State, but the coaching staff is what kind of pushed the decision [Ohio State's] way. Meeting Jim Tressel ? [he's] an amazing person. [The decision for Ohio State] was mostly on [his son]. He kind of made the decision on his own, and we just helped him along the way. Most of the decision process was his."

Crowell even looked the part of a prized recruit Wednesday as he no longer was hampered by crutches, a cast or walking after breaking his fibula in the high ankle region during the final game of his high school career in the first round of the Class 4A East Region playoffs ? just one week after declaring for Ohio State.

He is ahead of schedule in walking on his own after doctors told him that would happen in March.

"The look of the injury ended up being worse than what actually happened, even though what happened was bad enough," Lane said. "I didn't have any doubt that it was going to be something that was going to heal. The bigger schools like Ohio State have seen that before. Medicine now [is amazing]."

http://www.somdnews.com/stories/02042011/indytop170807_32396.shtml
 
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wadc45;1867868; said:
Coach Fickell (and I'm paraphrasing): "Might be one of our first Hawaiians...asked us on his official how many Hawaiians there were on campus."

Just when you think you've heard every question from a recruit...
Didn't Fickell play with hawaiianbuckeye?
 
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wadc45;1867868; said:
Coach Fickell (and I'm paraphrasing): "Might be one of our first Hawaiians...asked us on his official how many Hawaiians there were on campus."

Just when you think you've heard every question from a recruit...


I'm guessing Nicky Sualua was of Samoan descent or maybe Hawaiian, but I'm not sure. Best full back I saw at Ohio State, when he decided to try......

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicky_Sualua
 
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amybuckeye;1869060; said:
I'm guessing Nicky Sualua was of Samoan descent or maybe Hawaiian, but I'm not sure.
Sualua is a Samoan name (the Hawaiian language doesn't have an "S" in it).

amybuckeye;1869062; said:
I don't think he's a native Hawaiian. If we are talking about which states someone hails from, Crowell is Marylander.
Hawaiianbuckeye was born and raised in Hawaii, and although he's white he considers himself as Hawaiian as any other person born in Hawaii.

Crowell obviously has some ties to Hawaii, with his being that interested in how many Hawaiians there were on campus. He likely just wants to meet anyone from the Hawaiian Islands, not just Native Hawaiians.

By the way, when folks from Hawaii talk about "Hawaiians", they're almost always referring to people from the state, and not Native Hawaiians. People here who have Asian, Portugese, etc. ancestry consider themselves just as "Hawaiian" as the indigenous people...

Crowell likely wouldn't care if a person from Hawaii had Native Hawaiian blood in him...I'm sure he and Hawaiianbuckeye would get along quite well.
 
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