Ohio State doesn’t often recruit players from Hawaii. The travel distance is a big reason why. While a trip to Hawaii in January might seem ideal if you have a week to go on vacation, it’s not ideal when you’re a coach in the middle of a busy recruiting season who has to get there and back in just one day. In order to accomplish that, one must fly to Hawaii early in the morning (after taking a connecting flight out of Columbus the night before), then spend only a few hours there before taking an overnight flight back. No one would make that trip unless he or she believed that what they could do in just a few hours in Hawaii would be worthwhile. Ohio State wouldn’t make that trip to visit just any recruit, but new Buckeyes head coach Ryan Day decided that grueling travel schedule was worth…
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