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Windsor football star Joey O'Connor followed Big Ten detour to Ohio State
Posted: 01/31/2012
By Ryan Casey
The Denver Post

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Windsor star Joey O'Connor plans to sign Wednesday with Ohio State. He made a pledge last summer to play for Penn State. John Leyba, The Denver Post

WINDSOR ? He had slept easy on the ride to the airport, comfortable with the decision he was about to make.

Joey O'Connor had found exactly what he was looking for in a recruiting trip to Penn State last June. The campus, the people, the football program. A star offensive lineman at Windsor High School, he always had dreamed of playing in the Big Ten.

So, as he started his journey back home last summer, he briefly chatted with Chris Jones, his coach at Windsor who also made the trip, and then conked. Jones equated it to "finding that perfect girl." Hours later, after a brief conversation over dinner with his parents, the 6-foot-4, 295-pound O'Connor committed to Penn State.

Over the next few months, the O'Connor family proudly wore the school colors. They watched the Nittany Lions play live on television every Saturday, then watched the full game replay that night. Joey even used a Penn State lanyard as his key chain.

On Nov. 5, a Saturday, the O'Connor family was watching TV when they noticed a crawl across the bottom of the screen making reference to child sexual abuse and the Penn State football program. Within a week, O'Connor would decommit, his world turned upside down, not sure who he would be casting his lot with come Feb. 1, national signing day.

Jones first met O'Connor when he was in eighth grade. The oldest of the O'Connor clan, Chelsea, was on Windsor's track team and competed in the pole vault ? an event, as it happens, that was coached by Jones. Chelsea would rave to Jones about how massive her younger brother was, how he'd make an excellent football player. Soon, their paths crossed, but Jones was left thinking Chelsea had exaggerated her brother's size.

Entering his freshman year at Windsor, Joey was 6-foot-1, 210 pounds. Big, but not massive.

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Read more: Windsor football star Joey O'Connor followed Big Ten detour to Ohio State - The Denver Post http://www.denverpost.com/preps/ci_19856491#ixzz1l2gNBqdr
 
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O'Connor signs with Ohio State and promises not to disappoint
Feb. 1, 2012
Written by
David Persons

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Windsor High School offensive lineman Joey O'Connor puts on an Ohio State University cap just seconds after signing a national letter-of-intent to play football for the Buckeyes. His mother, Ann, watches as a roomful of about 200 supporters cheer her son. / Carol Hirata/For the Beacon

The drama that has consumed most of Joey O?Connor?s senior season at Windsor High School came to a happy conclusion Wednesday evening as he signed a national letter-of-intent to play collegiate football at Ohio State University.

No one is more relieved about that than O?Connor.

?I feel great,? said the mammoth 6-foot-5, 297-pound offensive lineman during a signing party in the Windsor High School cafeteria.

The signing ceremony was attended by Windsor High School Football Coach Chris Jones, WHS Athletic Director Mark Kanagy, O?Connor?s parents Joe and Ann, younger sister Maggie, younger brother Cooper, and older sister Chelsea (via Skype from Boston University) and a roomful of nearly 200 classmates, friends, and WHS staff.

O?Connor, sporting an Ohio State tie, thanked his parents for ?being my base? during his recruiting trials. He also thanked his mom ?for the food,? which brought laughter from the entire room.

O?Connor explained his journey from being a promising hockey player to being a novice football player to being one of the state?s most heavily-sought high school seniors.

It took a lot of hard work and commitment, O?Connor admitted. He then singled out Jones and ailing Windsor Beacon sports writer Jason Shedd for being his personal inspirations.

After that, he praised everyone in the room for supporting him over the years and during the tumultuous months of his recruiting.

?I won?t disappoint you,? he told the audience. ?I will work hard for you.?

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http://www.coloradoan.com/article/2...nnor-signs-Ohio-State-promises-not-disappoint
 
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HorseshoeFetish;2163653; said:
Ah...this kid makes me smile. I'd love to see him play some hockey tho.
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He would be good in the next "snow bowl". Or if they let the upcoming NCAA football playoffs be played in the stadiums of the teams involved, I would love to see Joey in the Shoe on a snowy day in January against SEC speed. They would slide right by at a high rate of speed.

Joey is going to major in criminal justice? I am not sure I feel good about that. Some of us minor in learning that system, via the school of hard knocks. :biggrin:
 
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