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Kentucky is not building a pipeline into Ohio. It is already firmly established. Mark Stoops has been on the job just six months, but the Ohio native already has a strong tie to the Buckeye State when it comes to recruiting. He landed his sixth co...

Blog | May 25, 2013

East St. Louis (Ill.) High has a long history of producing BCS-level products, and the 2014 and 2015 classes are loaded. ESPN 150 linebacker Kyron Watson (Kansas) and safety Gregory Taylor (Missouri) are already committed, but there is still a lot...

Blog | May 23, 2013

The plans for Indianapolis Pike receiver Dominique Booth are changing again. The four-star Booth announced this past weekend he would commit Friday, but that is no longer the case. The No. 24 receiver in the country will not make a commitment this...

Blog | May 23, 2013

An offer from an SEC school often makes recruits take a step back and re-evaluate a top group or a commitment. That's not the case with Jared Wangler (Warren, Mich./De La Salle). LSU offered the 6-foot-2, 218-pound outside linebacker Wednesday, bu...

Blog | May 22, 2013

Usually if a prospect has a dozen offers, he is a known commodity in recruiting circles. That is not the case with Rasaan Stewart (Collegeville, Pa./Perkiomen Valley), however. Stewart remains under the radar despite his double-digit offers. Colle...

Blog | May 22, 2013

Several visits are on the docket for Somerset (Wis.) High School tight end Gaelin Elmore, and a decision will likely come soon after. "I'm going to visit Michigan State, Indiana, Wisconsin [and] Ohio State in the same road trip," Elmore said. "I d...

Blog | May 22, 2013

Malik Hooker (New Castle, Pa./New Castle) is not new to football. He was just new to high school football. The 2014 athlete that exploded onto the recruiting scene a month ago played football back in eighth grade but dropped it in high school to p...

Blog | May 22, 2013

It was the first practice of the season, and Nicholas Abramson's youth football coach went up and down the line asking his players who their favorite athletes were. Tom Brady, Peyton Manning and all the usual suspects were rattled off. Then his co...

Blog | May 22, 2013

New Jersey has traditionally missed on the elite talent in its local area. By offering prospects earlier -- like, before their freshman year early -- Kyle Flood and his staff are hoping to see that change in the near future.

LSU and Ohio State were the top two for ESPN 150 wide receiver Saeed Blacknall. Now the two are bookends for the Manalapan (N.J.) High School star's top five. The 6-foot-3, 205-pound Blacknall released a top five Tuesday night. LSU remains at the ...

Blog | May 21, 2013

Not much has developed recently in the recruitment of four-star athlete Montae Nicholson (Monroeville, Pa./Gateway), but that figures to change in the coming weeks. The 6-foot-2, 195-pound receiver/safety has not made too many recent recruiting vi...

Blog | May 21, 2013

A few years ago, most would have called Pat Fitzgerald delusional. Even more would have called his pitch sour grapes for missing out on so many prospects to the rest of the Big Ten. But in the midst of a 2014 recruiting class already considered North...

Pat Fitzgerald has never tried to impress recruits with what Northwestern can offer them. Instead, he lets his team's success be his recruiting pitch, and it's working.

Indiana was looking for a little more beef along the defensive line, so the Hoosiers added a late piece to its 2013 recruiting class. Nathan Hoff (Solon, Ohio/Naval Academy Prep) signed with Indiana on Monday. Hoff attended Naval Academy Prep in N...

Blog | May 20, 2013

It was a Thursday night in late April and Alex Bookser (Pittsburgh/Mount Lebanon) was watching the NFL draft. A 6-foot-6, 295-pound prospect, Bookser is being recruited as a lineman on both sides of the ball. Bookser was an offensive lineman by th...

Blog | May 20, 2013

Quips go to Pitt. That is the expression in Western Pennsylvania. The elite prospects from talent-rich Aliquippa (Pa.) High almost exclusively go to nearby Pittsburgh to star for the Panthers. Jonathan Baldwin, Tommie Campbell and Darrelle Revis a...

Blog | May 18, 2013