COLUMBUS, Ohio — Tavion Thomas’ hands were sweating. He was so nervous that he forgot how to spell his own brother’s name. Nick Saban was just trying to make some small talk with the newest prospect to receive a scholarship offer from Alabama. “He was like, ‘What’s your brother’s name? Spell it.’ I couldn’t spell it. It was really crazy,” Thomas recalled in a conversation with cleveland.com on Sunday evening. His conversation with Saban happened on Thursday, right in the middle of what’s been a life-changing couple of days for Ohio’s hottest 2018 high school football prospect. On the same day he got the offer from Alabama, he also received 10 text messages from Ohio State with different members of the Buckeyes’ staff introducing themselves. The press was on. Not long after getting the offer from Alabama, Thomas was on the phone with Urban Meyer. Two days later, while on…
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