Ohio State Football: Meyer Targeting State of Georgia for 2014 Recruiting Class
For many of the past head coaches at Ohio State, priority No. 1 was finding a way to keep Big Ten schools—and other elite programs around the country—from raiding the “Buckeye State” of…
Ohio State Football: Meyer Targeting State of Georgia for 2014 Recruiting Class
For many of the past head coaches at Ohio State, priority No. 1 was finding a way to keep Big Ten schools—and other elite programs around the country—from raiding the “Buckeye State” of…
Jeff Greene, Former Leading Receiver at Georgia Tech, Transferring to Ohio State
Following Ohio State’s undefeated 2012 campaign, one of Urban Meyer’s biggest offseason priorities was to upgrade the Buckeyes’ wide receiver corps. Meyer did just that after signing Ohio State’s 2013 recruiting class. That…
Ohio State Loses Pair of Tight End Prospects to Georgia and Michigan
Urban Meyer and the Ohio State Buckeyes lost two of its top tight end recruiting targets on Tuesday when 4-star prospects Jeb Blazevich and Ian Bunting committed elsewhere. Blazevich committed to the Georgia Bulldogs…
Ohio State 2014 spotlight: DE Carter
Throughout the next few months, BuckeyeNation will look deeper into those juniors offered by Ohio State. We’ll give as much detail as we can and go behind the scenes to see why these class of 2014 standouts are so attractive to the Buckeyes. Next up on the list is defensive end Lorenzo Carter, who led the Blue Devils to their first state title in 55 years — this one a Georgia Class AAAAAA crown. Lorenzo Carter, Norcross (Ga.) Norcross Vitals: 6-foot-5 and 225 pounds Status: Uncommitted and in demand with more than 25 offers from the likes of Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Michigan, Notre Dame and Texas.
Two more prospects plan OSU visits
Ohio State will be busy hosts in the next few weeks as recruits file in to Columbus, Ohio, on unofficial visits. Offensive guard Braden Smith (Olathe, Kan./Olathe) isn’t the only one headed to The Horseshoe to check in on the Buckeyes as Ohio State has a big junior day planned for the end of the month. One of the bigger names scheduled to come March 28-30 is Jonathan Hilliman (Jersey City, N.J./St. Peters). The 6-foot-1, 202-pound Hilliman has offers from Arkansas, Boston College, Cincinnati, Georgia, Georgia Tech, Louisiana-Lafayette, Maryland, Miami, Michigan, Nebraska, North Carolina, North Carolina State, Ohio State, Oregon, Penn State, Pittsburgh, Rutgers, Stanford, Tennessee, UCF, Vanderbilt, Virginia, West Virginia and Wisconsin.
Georgia quick to offer Watch List RB
Many high school prospects are evaluated for months or even years before a college program extends a scholarship offer. Highlights from sophomore seasons are compared to those of junior seasons to see progression and potential. Players who make a name for themselves as juniors are visited as seniors to gauge their possible impact at the next level. And then there are prospects like Joe Mixon (Oakley, Calif./Freedom) for whom the entire process takes three or maybe four days.
Georgia leads for Watch List RB
On Feb. 6 when Alvin Kamara announced on ESPNU that he was going to play for Alabama, his decision marked the end of a six-year streak in which Georgia had signed a top-10 running back. The battle for Kamara went on for almost a year and the Bulldogs finished a close second, but that means nothing in football recruiting. While the Georgia fanbase was disappointed, the Bulldogs did pick up commitments from A.J. Turman and Brendan Douglas and are in good shape with a couple top 2014 running backs.
Ohio State offers another Georgia DT
Be it ever so humble, there’s something sweet about a Peach. Urban Meyer once again hit up a Georgia athlete from the Class of 2014 with an offer. Today it was defensive tackle Chris Williams (Tyrone, Ga./Sandy Creek). The 6-foot-1, 283-pound Williams now has five offers after the news this afternoon, which he noted on Twitter. “Ohio State just offered!!” tweeted the 16th Peach State player with an offer from Ohio State. Williams is also the fifth defensive tackle with an offer from the Buckeyes and the 16th lineman.
Taking a look at no-visit policies
Texas is joining the likes of Michigan, Oregon and Georgia Tech in instituting a no-visit policy for its commits. Is this hard-line stance a good idea for elite programs? RecruitingNation writer Mitch Sherman takes a look the trend. Read the story here.
