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LB Ross Homan (official thread)

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Coldwater running back Ross Homan (25) runs past Cardinal Mooney's Dusty Ritschilling (22) in the second quarter in the Ohio Division IV state football championships at Fawcett Stadium Saturday, Dec. 3, 2005, in Canton, Ohio.

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Blurb from today's Dispatch.....

Enrolling early



One member of the 2006 recruiting class, linebacker Ross Homan of Coldwater, is enrolled and taking winter-quarter classes. Kurt Coleman (Clayton Northmont) and Chris Wells (Akron Garfield) plan to enroll for spring quarter.

All three are expected to participate in spring practice, which begins March 30.
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CPD

2/1/06

NATIONAL SIGNING DAY
OSU class weighted with LBs


Wednesday, February 01, 2006 Doug Lesmerises

Plain Dealer Reporter

Ohio State picked up its 20th oral commitment on Tuesday, and what looks to be the best linebacker class in the country now stands at five with the pledge of Larry Grant from City College of San Francisco.

All this will become official with today's arrival of National Signing Day, treated nearly as a national holiday among recruiting gurus, with ESPNU planning to cover the official signings as if it's election day.

The hype already is over for Coldwater High's Ross Homan, who actually isn't even Coldwater High's Ross Homan anymore. He's a college man.

The second player to commit to the Class of 2006 nearly a year ago, and the first cousin of former Ohio State players Bobby and Tom Hoying, Homan, a linebacker, is taking classes and working out at Ohio State.

While the rest of what could be a top 10 recruiting class, which might include one or two more players, sign themselves over to the Buckeyes today, Homan already is one.

"I knew the whole way, if their offer was there for me, there would be a 100 percent chance I'd commit early," Homan said Tuesday. "There weren't any other scholarship offers that took my breath away or anything like that, so I wanted to get it out of the way."

Homan gave his word to the Buckeyes on Feb. 7 of last year, the day after Akron high school running back Chris Wells said he'd be headed for Ohio State. The two then sat back - talking on the phone, running into each other on campus visits - and watched the rest of the class fill in, stress-free.

"It was a great relief," said Homan's mother, Alice. "We knew where he was going, and there wasn't the pressure to perform every weekend knowing scouts would be there."

It worked. Homan had 16 tackles when Coldwater beat Youngstown Mooney in the Division IV championship game two months ago.

"It was easy being committed to relax and play hard," Homan said.

Then it was on to the next level. Homan's path isn't unique. Ashton Youboty and Donte Whitner, who both declared for the NFL draft as juniors this season, seemed more like seniors because they had enrolled early in January 2003. Marcus Freeman and Steve Rehring did the same thing the following January. Homan worked out his plan to graduate high school early with coach and guidance counselor John Reed.

Homan said he is taking five classes and working out four days per week with players such as freshman linebacker James Laurinaitis. Every Wednesday, he reports for speed work with former Buckeyes track star Butch Reynolds, an assistant strength coach. He said he already has seen results, and this time in Columbus may give him a leg up in what should be heated battles in the spring and summer to replace linebackers A.J. Hawk, Bobby Carpenter and Anthony Schlegel.

"I don't know if it will, but I'm trying to get ready mentally and physically to compete for a job," Homan said.

Linebackers Laurinaitis, Freeman, John Kerr, Mike D'Andrea and Curtis Terry already are in place, but this class . . .

Recruiting service scout.com ranked Grant as the best junior college linebacker available, and a top 10 linebacker recruit overall. It put Euclid's Thaddeus Gibson as the No. 9 linebacker recruit in the country, Mark Johnson of Los Angeles as the No. 12 linebacker, Homan at No. 14 and Tyler Moeller of Cincinnati's Colerain High at No. 23.

That's five of the top 25 linebacker recruits in one place.

"Their linebacker class was already impressive," Jeremy Crabtree, national recruiting analyst for rivals.com, said Tuesday after Grant's decision. "To go out and get the top junior college linebacker was a big deal."

Homan eagerly kept tabs on it all.

"I definitely paid attention," Homan said. "I'm thankful for the other guys that came in."

Tuesday, for one last day, he could say what Grant, Gibson, Johnson and Moeller couldn't yet. He was a Buckeye.

To reach this Plain Dealer reporter:

[email protected], 216-999-4748
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