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2020 OH ATH Mike Drennen II (Kentucky signee)

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Dublin Coffman: Shamrocks may be without Mike Drennen




By SCOTT HENNEN
THISWEEKSPORTS.COM
Posted Aug 27, 2019 at 2:05 PMUpdated Aug 27, 2019 at 7:05 PM

Two spread offenses will be on display when the Dublin Coffman football team travels to Clayton Northmont on Friday, Aug. 30, to open the season, but expect the offenses to have different looks.

The Shamrocks, however, entered the week with a major question mark regarding senior running back Mike Drennen. The second-team all-state honoree is nursing a foot injury after rushing for 801 yards and 11 touchdowns on 162 carries and catching 30 passes for 464 yards and five scores last fall.

“Mike has been dealing with a foot issue,” coach Mark Crabtree said. “He’s been doing a great job of rehabbing it and it’s getting better. We’ll see if he’s ready (for the opener). I know he feels good and he’s ready, but we want him to be 100 percent healthy.”

If Drennen can’t go, look for senior Moussa Diallo (129 carries, 534 yards, 6 TDs) to get the bulk of the carries. Diallo missed four games last season with a broken hand....


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https://theathletic.com/1202981/2019/09/11/michael-drennen-ohio-state-recruiting-2020/

Four-star recruit Michael Drennen II and Ohio State’s continued need for a 2020 running back
By Ari Wasserman 19m ago

DUBLIN, Ohio — Everyone calls Michael Drennen II “Donut.”

He isn’t sure about the origin of the nickname, just that people used to call his father “Donut” and the nickname got passed on to him. His teachers call him that, his friends call him that, everyone calls him that. When Drennen went on a visit to Michigan, the Wolverines put “Donut Drennen II” on his badge.

Drennen, a four-star running back from Dublin’s Coffman High, coincidentally likes using food analogies.

“When I’m playing, I’m playing like people are coming to take what’s on my plate,” he said. “I’m still trying to fill my plate.”

There’s a lot on Drennen’s plate right now. A consensus national top-200 recruit, Drennen has scholarship offers from Kentucky, Alabama, Florida State, Arizona State, Tennessee and Ohio State, among others, so he’s basically at the point where he can pick where he wants to go to college. But Drennen, who said he will make his final decision when it feels right, doesn’t only want to fill his plate.

“I want dessert, too,” he laughed.

Trust me, Donut, nobody wants dessert more than Ohio State right now. The Buckeyes are at a critical juncture in the assembly of their 2020 class in that they desperately need a running back. The class has 22 commitments and basically is full, but it has no running back, and Drennen, who goes to high school 20 minutes from Ohio State’s campus, is one of the top remaining prospects on running backs coach Tony Alford’s big board.

Drennen attended Ohio State’s win over Cincinnati on Saturday and met with Alford, who basically relayed that message. Drennen feels comfortable around Alford because he’s friends with Alford’s son, Rylan, who goes to Jerome High in Dublin.

“He had a lot of good things to say,” Drennen said of Alford. “We are kind of family friends anyway, so we already know each other. It was another day.”

Drennen is an interesting guy. He says he doesn’t like watching football on TV – like, he wouldn’t rush home to watch Alabama-LSU — and is far more interested in watching anime. He doesn’t pay too much attention to the day-to-day recruiting happenings, so he didn’t know how Ohio State wound up in this position. Though Drennen’s father keeps him in the loop, Drennen isn’t an expert on what happened in Ohio State’s pursuit of five-star running back Bijan Robinson of Tucson (Ariz.) Salpointe Catholic or four-star all-purpose back Jaylan Knighton of Deerfield Beach (Fla.) High.

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18thAveBuck said:
His cousin didn't play Saturday; whatever is going on with Gill can't be helping land Drennen.
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Then so be it... if a player isn't as good as those in front of them then they don't play.

This isn't scUM where we hire kids HS coaches or offer kids so that we land their teammates.

If Drennan wants to come here great but if not we'll find someone just as good or better.
 
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RB07OSU said:
Never understand Ohio kids being drawn there for football, particularly when you've got a USC offer (among many others).
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It’s easy, close to home and can possibly see the field earlier.
UK still has very good football facilities and play in a good conference. I’d rather go to UK than UC, Akron, Pitt, IU, Purdue, etc if I were a 3 or 4star kid from Ohio.
 
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