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Love grad21's assessment of the "punk"ing, but pretty much that's what the recruiting process has become. I remember the good old days as a kid, rushing to the store the day after NLOI day to but a USA Today to see where their top prospects were going, then looking at the local newspaper to check out the Buckeyes list of recruits, knowing nothing about them, but just looking to see who the new names were going to be and what positions they played.
The internet has changed alot of this, as well as these kids being placed high on pedastals and at times being made to be way too big for their britches. I liked the days when "verbal, soft-verbal, lean, and de-committ" weren't even in my vocabulary. The recruiting process itself is extremely cool, I guess there's just too much info available to us these days (and only a small portion of it accurate). Peace.          
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Are we to blame somewhat.. of course we are but in MANY cases the parents are worse then the kids in setting the example on how to handle these things.
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Color me shocked here... There was actually decent info out there for Clemson and/or tOSU, but Arizona didn't even get an official from him... Pretty amazing... Sounds like this was another that was playing the recruiting game as well...
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Well, not knowing anything about this kid or the surrounding situations, I'm not surprised by his decision not going the OSU direction.
Just thinking about the position, I think we have had too many unfortunate contributing factors over the last few years that have not helped tOSU's recruiting the TE position: 1. Louis Irrizary (sp) could have been an incredible difference-maker, and not only helped our team but future recruits to look at the Buckeye TEs in an alltogether different light. He made his beyond-poor decisions and was required to take his talents elsewhere. 2. Marcel Frost didn't light the world on fire, but was coming on very nicely toward the end of 2005, yet had his own troubles and decided to transfer instead of waiting out his suspension. 3. Rory Nicol may still make his mark at the position, but because of injury last year and some spectacular young WRs alowing JT to play 4 & 5 wide often, he hasn't had optimal opportunities to show his stuff just yet. Unfortunately the most visibal moment in recent years related to the TE position at tOSU is a dropped TD against last year's national champs. It's been quite a while since the days of Dudley or Sanders catching 20 yard passes down the seem over a linebacker, or even Hartsock catching 8-12 yard outs for the 2002 National Champ Ohio State Buckeyes. To an outsider, our tight ends were very under-utilized (as pass-catchers) in an offense that was putting up 35-40 points a game this past year. I'm sure other schools took the opportunity to make negative claims about our offense and played on the kid's visions of playing in the famed westcoast style offense, or similar TE friendly systems, which the OSU team obviously won't utilize ("just look at this past season"  ), and there you have it.Anyway, onward and upward. Good luck Mr. Gronkowski. Rory and Jake in 2007. 
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Rumors are saying to look for this "walk-on" status to quickly become a scholarship. I'm not accusing anyone of anything here...however, you can each make up your own mind.
Link The Bounce: Recruit's brother baseball walk-on JOHN MOREDICH and The Associated Press Tucson Citizen  An older brother of University of Arizona tight end prospect Rob Gronkowski wants to be a hit on the diamond. Chris Gronkowski is hoping to regain his old swing and will try to make UA's baseball team after not playing organized baseball in nearly two years. Continued...
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Tight end ready to make impact next year for Cats By Ryan Finley arizona daily star Tucson, Arizona | Published: 04.13.2007 The UA's biggest football recruit in years is also its biggest football recruit in 2007. At 6 feet 6 inches and 268 pounds, his imposing build and blond hair make him look a bit like Ivan Drago, the Russian boxer portrayed by Dolph Lundgren in Rocky IV. Gronkowski, 17, credits his family for his physique. His father owns a chain of workout-equipment stores. His three older brothers made sure Rob was ready to compete ? or else. Cont...
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LJB's great "where are they now?" article illustrated how so many of our "misses" have done little to nothing in college. I don't think that applies to '07 though. It seems a lot of them had very good freshman years and have promising futures, including Rob.
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I really liked Rob and wished we could of found a way to get him in that class...
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AP Photo/Elaine Thompson At 6-foot-6, 260 pounds, Arizona's Rob Gronkowski is the Pac-10's top tight end. There's significant stratification among Pac-10 tight ends in 2008.
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