Won't be back til tonight to do some final touches
- Jaquan Lyle & Parrker Westphal unofficially visits Illinois
- Nile Sykes unofficially visits Indiana for junior day
- Trey Johnson officially visits Tennessee
- Iowa State offers Tyler Luatua, offered teammate Dallis Todd as well
- Alabama offers Nick Chubb
- Florida State offers Christopher Worley
- Indiana offers Nile Sykes
- Nebraksa offers William Ulmer
- Purdue has offered Corn Elder a basketball scholarship
- Ezekiel Elliott not talking to the media but his dad tells Steve Wiltfong Missouri hit a home run. He doesn't know what he's thinking now
- Per Steve Wiltfong, he thought that Dontre Wilson would commit on his visit but he didn't. All indications Wilson & Clark's visit went well.
- Devin Lauderdale has recommitted to Texas Tech
BN$--Buckeyes Offer Another In-State OL '14 OH OL Kyle Trout
- Trout confirms the offer status as 'committable'.
BG$--Buckeyes offer local junior '14 OH OL Kyle Trout
- Kyle says he is honored by the offer and planned on waiting until after his senior season but that plan may be changing.
BN$--Wilson Shown A Very Good Time '13 TX RB Dontre Wilson
- Coach Claude Mathis says Dontre had a great time in Columbus and will likely visit Oklahoma State next weekend.
BN$--OSU "Great" Enough In Clark's Mind? '13 FL WR James Clark
- James says he had a great visit and is still considering Clemson, Florida and Ohio State. He will visit UF next weekend.
Ohio State football: Meyer hauls in recruits despite limits (dispatch)
Recruiting is the inhale phase of the respiratory cycle of major-college football, and Ohio State is taking its second straight deep breath.
Last year, coach Urban Meyer and his staff signed 25 players in their first recruiting class. This year, they have 22 commitments heading into the signing period, which opens Feb. 6. Five of those players are already enrolled at Ohio State and taking part in conditioning drills.
The class could still gain two or three players. Dontre Wilson of DeSoto, Texas — a running back currently committed to Oregon — and receiver James Clark of New Smyrna Beach, Fla., are on campus this weekend making official visits. Meyer also would like to add another offensive lineman and is looking at a couple receiver prospects, including Ryan Timmons of Frankfort, Ky.
With Ohio State limited to 82 scholarship players through the 2014 season because of NCAA sanctions that cut the limit from 85 for three years, more than half the roster will be first- and second-year players this fall.
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Tracy Sprinkle: 2013 Ohio State football player profiles (land grant holy land)
Another week, another look at the foundation of what will make up the best of what's yet to come for Ohio State football under head coach Urban Meyer. In today's chapter, we look at Tracy Sprinkle, a mildly under the radar member of Ohio State's 2013 recruiting class. While Sprinkle is rated as but the 35th best player from the class of 2013 in the state of Ohio (per the 247Composite rankings) , Sprinkle was named the Associated Press' 2012 Ohio Division 1 Co-Defensive Player of the Year following his senior year. We saw what last year's wealth of talent meant to the Buckeyes' defensive line, and with the addition of Sprinkle, the rich may be getting even richer.
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Thanks Gene. You're far more productive than I am on days I "take off"
"A guy from Ohio can make it in life if he works hard enough." - Wayne Woodrow Hayes
Houston Bellaire WR Devin Lauderdale confirmed to RRS he’s committed to TexasTech.
Per Tim May..
Clark says he plans on announcing his plans on NSD.
Yes but he will silent verbal to the school of his choice before signing day.
So we should be able to get a good gauge of if he's coming here or not before then.
This next week in a half is gonna kill me!!Have a feeling a lot of these guys we brought in are gonna wait til signing day!!
SCOTTC.
"Antici ... pation."
Looks like FSU is going after another one of our commits... Worley tweeted that FSU just offered him.
In addition to the commits we will get on NSD I am also excited about about the 2014 guys that may commit shortly there after and are only waiting for the 2013 class to finish.
Gray box of goodness, where are you?
silent verbal = invisible grey box
Invisible grey box=manti teos girlfriends favorite 11w posts
still more of a guaruntee than where anzalone will graduate college from
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I think the staff knows they're probably losing Elliot, which is why you see the offer to Timmons. I don't blame Elliot, but it definitely affects the class negatively because we haven't been recruiting running backs and gave up on a few solid talents (Green, Mizzell) after EE committed.
that seems a bit harsh, im pretty sure somewhere someone posted Eze reaffirmed his commitment. he has family lineage at mizzou, cant blame him for visiting to pay respect
He hasn't reaffirmed. He's gone quiet, which is a really really bad sign.
If it was a visit to pay respect, he wouldn't be shutting it down right now. He's seriously thinking.
OSU went from being the hunter to being hunted...
Please stay EZE!
I disagree. To me I just wanted him to get out of there without committing. IMO if he was going to commit he would have done it when he was there and wrapped up about the excitement of the visit. Missouri put the full court press on him all weekend and couldn't get him to commit while being there. Going home shutting it down is probably more about him just not wanting to talk about it after a long weekend. He can think about it for a week and remember that if he wants to play for a championship then he should go to OSU... a thought that will be told to him when Stan the man visits him this week.
Apparently despite shutting down the rumor before, according to Bournival he DID visit TENN. Weird...
Everybody is after OSU commits. FSU is after Munger and Worley. Mizzou is after Zeke. UT is after Trey Johnson. Did Johnson lie to Miles or Alex about the visit? Makes no sense what is going on. Is the staff losing grips on some recruits because they're pushing so hard for Bell, Wilson/Clark, and Skipper?
Yes he lied to Myles.It's on another thread!!
SCOTTC.
Hope we have nothing to worry about with Zeke and Johnson.
SCOTTC.
Hope you're right, I'm not feeling too good about any of this
I'm not a fan of kids who lie. If he had plans to visit UT he should've called the staff and cleared it with them like Munger did about FSU. Looks bad on Johnson.
We don't know that he didn't tell the staff, we just know that he lied to the 11w people about it.
I wouldn't cheer for Michigan if they were playing the Taliban.
I'm sure if he had cleared it with the staff then the 11W staff would've known. It would've been the same situation as Munger.
Cannot imagine EE is going to decommit and go to Mizzou; why go to an average; at best school instead of one that will be competing for the crystal football every year. And what about the video his old man made when he was in C-Bus with Coach Combs??
"Fate has cards that it don't want to show"
Relax People.......It's Urban F Meyer
We all understand who our coach is, but kids will have a change of heart even with Urban as the coach. I read that Drayton is supposed to visit Zeke this week and Urban might make a trip in to solidify things before NSD.
Funny, I just made a comment about the Don Scott public observation tower over on the EZE thread, but this makes it sound like there really might be a jet fueling up over there.
And if kids do have a change of heart, Urban will move on to the next one and find someone who wants to be a Buckeye. That's why I'm telling people to relax & step away from the edge. There will be numerous rumors in the next week.
Take it for what it's worth since I'm quoting a TENN fan. But as he mentions, there's a rumour going around that Andrew Bone (Football recruiting analyst for http://TideSports.com . State of Alabama analyst for Yahoo!Sports/Rivals.com) no longer believes Vonn Bell will be in Bama's class. OBVIOUS grain of salt, but interesting rumour nonetheless! I'm seeing many people quoting it, and a lot of people think Bone is very legit/his opinion is worth quite a bit.
Either way, sounds like OSU is out of it, no?
Everything I've read lately says that he insists all 3 are even. Even though Bone says he thinks Bama's out, I wouldn't be surprised to see him go anywhere. If Bone is correct though, that Bama's all but out (not sure what gives him that idea honestly), I still think OSU has a fair shot to win out over TENN with a Withers visit left (seeing as Vonn's family loves him from what I've read here and elsewhere).
Yes, UT seems like a very odd choice for a 5*, given their current coaching situation and overall quality. I know it's supposed to be his hometown team, but last time they were any good he was probably what, 8? It's one thing when Clowney picks SCAR, which is obviously ascendant under Spurrier, but there's no such signs at UT. You'd think the kid wants to compete for an NC.
If they hadn't produced Eric Berry in the interim than I would be a lot more confident in your theory.
Berry was a Top 5 player overall in that class so they didn't really produce them as much as he took his talents to Knoxville...BUT your point is well taken. Same thing with us and RB's. The top RBs want to and do play in Columbus.
I agree. Even tho Urban is supposed to be the best closer in recruiting I think Coach Withers could actually be the one to close this kid. If I'm correct Withers is supposed to visit pretty close to NSD.
I cant hate on school's recruiting our players. recruit til the end just like we do.