Senior Tackle: Cade Stover on how Penn State, Ohio State recruited him
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Cade Stover
Published on September 26, 2018
Ohio State commitment Cade Stover is set to embark on his final season of high school football and basketball at Lexington (Ohio) High School. Lexington, a small town of just about 4,700 people near Mansfield, is a farm community that’s played an instrumental role in raising Stover, the country’s eighth-ranked outside linebacker. He committed to the Buckeyes in late April this year, picking Ohio State over Penn State, Notre Dame and 20 other schools. The 6-foot-4, 230-pound athlete is on the verge of becoming his school’s all-time leading scorer in basketball, and he will share all of the ups and downs of his senior year with Lettermen Row in this weekly journal.
Last week we lost another game and our record dropped to 1-4.
This is nowhere close to where we wanted to be at this point in the season, and it’s disappointing. That being said, we are going to squeeze and grab onto every bit of positive football we can get out of it from here. The mental state when you’re 1-4 is what is the toughest, honestly. But we have a group of guys around us that are really great.
It’s not easy, but we all stay positive and show up every day and give everything we have. That’s all anyone could ever ask for on a team. The wins will come from that.
As I’m sure everyone reading this knows, the Buckeyes take on Penn State this weekend. This is a huge game for both teams in the Big Ten and for the conference in general. After the great showing last week against Tulane, the Buckeyes are going to be juiced up and ready to roll in Happy Valley.
Ironically, Penn State was one of the schools I visited and considered during the recruiting process. It was a great campus, beautiful and out in the country, which is right up my alley. I didn’t feel the love and passion there I did at Ohio State, but most of all I didn’t feel the comfort that I felt at Ohio State. The Buckeyes staff made me feel like I was a part of the program from the first time I stepped on campus.
Sure, growing up in Ohio, it’s very hard to have the best college football program in the country in your backyard and not go there. But the Ohio State coaches never treated me like I wasn’t family. That’s really why I picked them more than anything.....
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