Updated at 3:29 p.m. ET It was a Yahtzee disaster. Before he won the Heisman, set the single-game rushing record at Ohio State or was a four-time Pro-Bowler in the NFL, Eddie George was an uncommitted high school recruit taking his first visit to Columbus. And the visit was off to a rocky start. “I have to tell you it wasn’t my best visit,” George told Sporting News. “I went to an all boys school, I was on my break and I wanted to go out and I wanted to see girls — I wanted to see the party life. My host looked at my profile and thought ‘OK, military guy — straight-laced, he’s not going to want to do anything.’ And that’s what we did, absolutely nothing. We sat in this guy’s apartment and played games — Yahtzee and watched videos.” MORE: This week’s Recruiting Flash | SN Power Rankings He thought to himself, “This is not what I envisioned.” Eddie George was visiting Columbus from Virginia where he attended Fork Union Military Academy. A Philadelphia-native who grew up a Penn State fan, George’s mother Donna sent him to the all-boys military boarding school to improve his lackluster grades. Rather than slacking off in Philly, George was pushed like other cadets to do military drills and spent long hours meticulously waxing the academy’s hallways and picking up garbage around the grounds. The structure and strict military code instilled in him a sense of discipline that he needed. Back in Columbus, Yahtzee was put aside the next day when Eddie visited Ohio Stadium. …
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