This is why tOSU is head and shoulders above others recruiting in this conference. They are measured and selective with their offers. The shotgun approach Zook and Rod/Hoke takes cheapens those offers. A kid gets an OSU offer, it opens his eyes, the Illini and tsun are far less prestigious IMO.osugrad21;1880313; said:
High school football: Mentor's Strobel receives offer from Ohio State
Published: Monday, February 28, 2011
By Bill Tilton
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Mentor junior defensive end Tom Strobel has already received plenty of attention and several offers from big-time college football programs in the offseason.
Sunday, it hit close to home.
Strobel took an unofficial visit to Ohio State for Junior Day in Columbus, and after attending the first quarter of the OSU basketball game against Indiana and speaking with several members of the coaching staff, including head coach Jim Tressel, he left the state capital with an offer to play football for the Buckeyes.
The 6-foot-6, 250-pound third-team All-Ohioan also has offers on the table from Stanford, Michigan State, Purdue, Wisconsin and Michigan, among other BCS programs. While he said the interest from OSU is "humbling" and the day was one he won't forget, he is no closer to making up his mind.
"I'd like to make my decision before the season starts, that is my goal, but I am no closer now than I was before," Strobel said. "It was an amazing experience and Coach Tressel is such a great person. It was so nice to sit down with him and just talk. Not even about football, but about my family and Mentor and school and everything. It was a really good day.
"This has all been very humbling. I am fortunate to be in this position and to get the kind of attention I have received."
Prep notes: Mentor's Strobel signs U.S. Army All-American Bowl invitation (with videos)
Published: Thursday, April 21, 2011
By Bill Tilton
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Mentor coach Steve Trivisonno has said since the day Tom Strobel arrived at Mentor that he could tell he had elite skills as a football player.
The people who run the most prestigious high school all-star game in the United States agree.
Strobel accepted and signed his official invitation to play in the 2012 U.S. Army All-American Bowl in San Antonio on Wednesday at the Mentor Board of Education.
The U.S. Army All-American Bowl is a high school football all-star game played in the Alamodome. The game brings 90 of the nation's top high school football players together for an East versus West matchup. The game will be broadcast live on NBC on Jan. 12.
Records indicate Strobel is the first player from The News-Herald coverage area to be selected to play in the game, and only the fifth player chosen from Northeast Ohio in its 12 years of existence.
"It's a huge honor and I feel very blessed to get the chance to play against the best players in the country and to be thought of as that caliber of player," Strobel said. "I really want to show people that I am a well-rounded person. That I have personality and treat people with respect and that I get it done in the classroom, too."
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