- Oregon offered Isaiah Ford
- Virginia Tech offered Shai McKenzie
- Ohio State offered Xavier Gaines & Cecil Cherry
- Michigan offered Soso Jamabo
- Pittsburgh offered Jalen Christian
- Vanderbilt offered Jarrett LaRubbio
- Arkansas offered Derek Kief
- Dravon Henry announces a top four in no particular order: Pitt, Penn State, West Virginia and Ohio State
- Anthony Moten announces a Top 10 of Michigan, Florida State, Florida, South Carolina, Arkansas, USC, Notre Dame, Alabama, Clemson & Tennessee
- Urban Meyer & Ohio State impressed Braden Smith & his family during this week's visit
ESPN $ - RB Hood rethinking top group '14 NC RB Elijah Hood
- By VanHaaren......Says he's going to reconsider his top schools & thinks he wants to stay close to home.
ESPN $ - Ohio State impresses Watch List guard '14 KS OL Braden Smith
- Braden's coach Jeff Gourley says that they had a nice visit and that they weren't disappointed.
ESPN $ - More big names confirm Ohio State Buckeyes recruiting visits
- A few names have been added for visits, list looking like this so far from here on out.
ESPN $ - Thompson alters timeline after new offers '14 IL OL/DL Dylan Thompson
- Dylan says he's looking to narrow it down from 5 to 8 schools by the beginning of his season and will make a decision on signing day. Confirms he will be at Ohio State on Saturday.
March 22nd-24th
'14 DL Dylan Thompson (Lombard, IL)
'14 LB Kyle Berger (Cleveland, OH)
'14 QB Caleb Henderson (Burke, VA)
'15 OL George Brown Jr. (Cleveland, OH)
March 26th
'14 TE Jeb Blazevich (Charlotte, NC)
March 29th-31st
'14 RB Jonathan Hilliman (Jersey City, NJ)
'14 WR Derek Kief (Cincinnati, OH)
'14 OL Quenton Nelson (Red Bank, NJ; 28th-29th)
April 1st-3rd
'14 LB Raekwon McMillan (Hinesville, GA)
April 4th
'14 QB Darius Wade (Middletown, DE)
'14 WR Demarre Kitt (Tyrone, GA)
April 5th-7th
'14 RB Nick Chubb (Cedartown, GA)
'14 WR Dallis Todd (La Mirada, CA)
'14 JUCO OL Chad Mavety (East Garden City, NY)
'14 OL Juwan Bushell-Beatty (Paramus, NJ)
'14 OL Sam Mustipher (Olney, MD)
'14 OL Alex Bookser (Mt. Lebanon, PA)
'14 DB Damon Webb (Detroit, MI)
'14 DB Jabrill Peppers (Paramus, NJ)
'15 RB Michael Weber (Detroit, MI)
'15 DE Joshua Alabi (Detroit, MI)
April 18th
'14 WR Mark Andrews (Scottsdale, AZ)
April 19th-21st
'14 OL Demetrius Knox (Fort Worth, TX)
'14 RB Dravon Henry (Aliquippa, PA)
November 23rd (Indiana)
'14 JUCO OL Chad Mavety (East Garden City, NY) - official
'14 JUCO OL Jermaine Eluemunor (Scranton, PA) - official
Newly Offered: '16 QB Xavier Gaines Freshman Highlights
Newly Offered: '15 LB Cecil Cherry Sophomore Highlights (hudl)
Jalen Hurd & Todd Kelly Jr Interview
Football recruiting | Ole Miss offers Garrett; Weishar enjoys Michigan visit (chicago tribune)
Plainfield South junior outside linebacker Clifton Garrett made an unofficial visit to Ole Miss over the weekend.
The Rebels are looking to add another prospect from Illinois after landing Crete-Monee's Anthony Standifer (2012) and Laquon Treadwell (2013).
"Ole Miss is a beautiful place," Garrett said. "Everyone here is like family, and once you get in town its all about Ole Miss. The coaches at Ole Miss, like head coach (Hugh) Freeze and the rest of the coaches, truly care about the players. The fans at Ole Miss are behind the program 100 percent and the players all want the same thing; they all want that national championship."
Garrett, who has 25 offers, also plans to visit LSU this spring.
Marist's Weishar visits Michigan: Marist junior TE Nic Weishar spent his weekend taking an unofficial visit to Michigan.
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Ohio State recruiting: State Secrets, 3/19 - Five star visits OSU (lghl)
Ohio State had a five-star offensive tackle visit Monday, he won't be the only recruit the Buckeyes will have on campus the next few weeks.
Stud Kansas offensive tackle Braden Smith visited the Ohio State campus Monday. The 6-6 295 pounder's trip around the Midwest won't stop in Columbus, Braden will also check out Michigan and Notre Dame later this week. The five-star talent has offers from just about every school in the nation including Ohio State, Michigan, Notre Dame, Alabama, Oklahoma and Texas to name a few.
College coaches from across america aren't the only ones to take notice, Scout.com has Smith listed as the top player in Kansas the sixth ranked prospect in the class of 2014 and the second ranked offensive tackle in he country. With Cleveland Glenville beast Marcelys Jones and Lancaster four-star Kyle Trout already verbally committed to Ohio State, the staff has definitely made the offensive line a vocal point for the class of 2014 and are sitting pretty with many of the top hogs the class has to offer.
Smith won't be the only talented prospect to visit Ohio State this week, It has been reported that 2014 recruits, Cleveland St. Ignatius linebacker Kyle Berger and 6-5 270 lb defensive tackle and Illinois native Dylan Thompson will check out the Buckeyes this weekend. Berger and Thompson have watched their recruitment blow up the last few months, even if they don't end up in the scarlet and gray that doesn't mean they won't end up future teammates, they are both sporting scholarship offers from Arkansas, Illinois, Tennessee to go a long with a gang of other schools.
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How Notre Dame, Ohio State Hold Early Edge for 2015 RB Mike Weber (bleacher report)
2015 recruit Michael Weber projects to be a very talented running back at the college level, so of course, two of the biggest programs in the country already hold the early edge for his commitment: Ohio State and Notre Dame.
Weber is unranked as of now, but that will change once the 2015 class starts to come into focus later on in this current recruiting cycle. He has good size at 5'10'', 190 pounds, and he goes to Cass Tech, which is a school in Detroit known for producing some elite recruits.
Cass Tech is a known Michigan pipeline, but according to a report via Brad Bournival of ESPN.com, the Fighting Irish and Buckeyes are the two programs standing out to the 2015 running back right now.
A 5-foot-10, 195-pound sophomore, Weber has offers from Illinois, Michigan, Michigan State and Syracuse, but is eyeing trips to Notre Dame and Ohio State.
“I like all my offers right now,” Weber said Saturday at the New Level Athletics 7 on 7 Midwest Regional. “I think I’m going to ride this out and decide my senior year, but I’m really looking forward to visiting Notre Dame and Ohio State in April. I’m traveling with Max Ex right now and doing these 7-on-7s [tournaments].”
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Ezekiel Elliott: 2013 Ohio State football player profiles (lghl)
Our "Bucks to the Future series" rolls along with the last official commitment from signing day, RB Ezekiel Elliot from St. Louis, MO. Although Elliott was the sixth player to commit to Urban Meyer, he had 17 offers from all over the country, including Notre Dame, Georgia, and over half of the schools in the Big Ten. His home state school, Missouri, put on a full court press in the days leading up to signing day in an effort to get Elliott to stay home, but in the end, the chance to be a dual threat weapon in Meyer's offense won the day. Getting a player as versatile as Elliott was important for Meyer and what he wants to do with the offense, and Elliott is an example of Meyer's national recruiting profile, as he was the #1 player in the state of Missouri according to the Rivals 247 composite rankings, and the fifth ranked running back overall.
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Isn't Autry going to be coming with McMillan?
I feel like it's tentative right now, but we'll see
+1, that is who I was thinking of. I could not think of the name and I was kicking myself trying to remember
Damn,that would stink if Autry stayed behind.Was thinking the same thing with him not on the list.I know w already have Parris,but he would be sick to nab.
SCOTTC.
For sure, we need to get him to visit soon. Myles hasn't come out and said I'm going to visit for sure with Raekwon, he's just talking about it and pretty much is beating around the bush.
Wow, April 4-7th looks like it's going to be star-studded. Expand that back through April 2nd, and we could have two 5*'s (McMillan and Peppers) and easily 8+ 4* recruits visiting within a one week span.
I think thompson or berger commits this weekend.
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stark county football
ESPN video with Todd Kelly Jr. and Jalen Hurd very recently (post-Tennessee commitment). Interesting because of their discussion of Coach Urban Meyer at the end:
http://espn.go.com/video/clip?id=906970
^I can't find the embed code on it, so hopefully that link leads people to the right place (maybe Gene or anyone better at embedding media can do it if interested -- nothing major or necessarily pro-OSU there though, so may not be worth embedding).
Hurd says he "loves Coach Meyer to death" but that he hasn't called and talked to him since his Tennessee commitment (but that he plans to do so, however, out of respect to him). Todd Kelly didn't have much to say about it -- but I never got the sense that his relationship with Coach Meyer had developed. Hurd and Meyer on the other hand seemed very close based on previous interviews.
Oh they will "love Coach Meye to death" after they are sitting @ home with Tennessee going barely or sub .500 while Ohio State will be consistently in the National Title Game.
Added thanks to my handy dandy cell phone
Anthony Moten's top schools
Miami, Florida State, Florida, South Carolina, Arkansas, USC, Notre Dame, Alabama, Clemson and Tennessee (in no particular order).
I saw it posted on 247.
Interesting, he just recently stated Ohio State is recruiting him pretty hard
When we offered him I found out he is already married. So I don't expect him to leave his home state.
True, but you never know
His top 10 tells you he's VERY unlikely to leave the south. You're always going to have some recruits like that. He has ND in it, but he goes to a Catholic school (St. Thomas Aquinas). I was actually a bit surprised ND wasn't among Joey Bosa's top 5 last year, ND is always going to do well with recruits from Catholic schools, it just is what it is.
Hard to tell how good Moten really is bc he's played next to 2 Bosa's on that line. Like Holley, Ford, and Williams' tapes better esp Ford's bc his motor never stops.
Some cool pics of Xavier Gaines. http://www.osuoverload.com/Xavier_Gaines.php
Gotta say that I really wanted both Kelly and Hurd but I applaud them both for staying true to Tennessee. Great questions about letting Urban down!! haha
Warning: Ohio buckeye is highly toxic when taken internally.
So we basically have a month long gorge fest of recruiting awesomeness in store. I will be carefully watching (and by watching I mean refreshing this page over and over) for intel on the Caleb Henderson visit. That's a biggie imo.
sfgoods
I didn't even notice his name on there. I thought he cancelled?
Wiltfong said he was visiting this weekend today
Nice
Saw this was retweeted by Derek, but for any of you who haven't seen this, get excited for dontre to see the field week 1
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LL_QZpc4qdI
His commitment just gets better and better!
Kid is scary good in space can't wait to see his abilities in the return game.
Far off, but that Nov. 23 week with those two is going to be a red carpet roll out I feel. Two of the top Juco OL visiting at the same time. Meyer is very very high on Chad Mavety.
Added a couple summaries on Braden Smith & Dylan Thompson
Hilliman is postponing his visit til May
Sounds like Clifton Garrett has Ole Miss as his leader now. I saw an article on Scout about it.
From Garrett's mouth, he has Ole Miss “at the top of my list” as they slip him some $$$$ on his visit there.
Didn't read the article, but I'm cautious when it comes to the phrase "at the top of my list." Technically, Malik McDowell said a few weeks ago that "OSU would be at the top of my list" when he makes one -- in many cases it just means they're part of a top group. In other words, it could mean Ole Miss is #1, or it could just mean they've secured themselves as part of the top group for now -- which we kind of knew before the visit (that OSU and Ole Miss were at the top).
I'm also a little reticent about taking the opinion of a guy fresh off a visit when he's still high off the excitement. See: Myles Autry (seemed like he was about to commit to Tennessee fresh off his visit there, but now appears to have backed off of it and says he's going to take his time), and Elijah Hood off of his Michigan visit "they've opened my eyes" "they're my #2 now" <-- and since it looks like ND, Michigan and OSU may be replaced by schools closer to home.
Still disappointed Hurd committed fresh off a Tennessee visit. If he would have stepped back, made another OSU visit, I think the situation might have turned out much differently. Ah well!
Edit: Someone downvoted you Gene, gave you a +1 to even it out!
I'm sure it was because of the $$$ comment. It's a fact, not sure why it was downvoted, aka LaQuon Treadwell.
Anyways, it's too early in the process for me, when official offers go out, that's when I start to really get into things.
Either you have some evidence that no one else has, or you're mistaken about the definition of "fact", but Laquon Treadwell, as far as we know, took no money from Ole Miss.
He posted pics of $$$ on Twitter after an Ole Miss visit then deleted the pics shortly after, that raises suspicion.
Ole Miss was my main worry when it came to Garrett, this makes getting Berger over Michigan that much more important.
Favorite Buckeye: Obviously BJ Mullens
Ohio State also offered Cecil Cherry today, teammate of Xavier Gaines.
This Ole Miss thing Is really getting on my nerves. Oh well though, Hugh Freeze can recruit I guess (or the boosters?) but no way they win big with him at Ole Miss. Ill believe it when I see it but I just can't see that happening
I think we have an Ole Miss fan in our midst. Both you and Gene got a downvote for what I felt weren't overly-negative UMiss comments lol. +1