DB Jamario O'Neal (official thread)

[BIATCHabutuka]

thanks again for the pics bux, we must have attended the same game or two in 2003. nice to see more buckeye fans out there attending high school football games with an eye for buckeye prospects.

[Buckskin86]

And the Recruiting season officially begins.....

Insiders not lists Jamario as a "soft verbal" - he is still committed but wants to check out the usual characters- USC, FSU and Cryami

[CleveBucks]

Yawn. He's living in the Ginn household, nuff said. It's the usual Glenville recruitment. Keep it "open" til December or January, then announce for OSU. Had Jamario been at Glenville when he was offered as a sophomore, he wouldn't have committed publicly.

I say let him visit all the top schools. He'll get more pub, and should continue the streak of Glenville corners rated #1 nationally and headed to OSU to three years.

[lvbuckeye]

Originally Posted by BuckinMichigan

I don't think there is any doubt about Jamario. I would even expect him to be a person who does a little recruiting of his own, ala Justin Zwick. He committed so early and has not done a single thing to make anyone think he won't be in Columbus next year at this time.

he was on record as calling Fred Davis out for not committing to Ohio State, at the Army All Star Game... or something like that...

and he was trying to recruit kids to Ohio State along w/ TG2...

this kid committed in 2002... i'm pretty sure he's going to be a Buckeye... who am i kidding, he already is.

[Buckskin86]

http://www.cleveland.com/sports/plai...4627315961.xml

Jamario won his 100M race yesterday @10.9- plus a few other Buckeyes had a good day

Ginn won the 200-meter dash (meet-record 21.37 seconds), 110-hurdles (meet-record 13.74) and 400 (47.90). A three-event state champion last June, Ginn anchored the first-place 4x400 (3:17.05). Teammate Jamario O'Neal was first in the 100 (10.90). O'Neal and Stephon Fuqua ran on three winning relays - the 4x400, 4x100 (41.87) and 4x200 (1:26.44). Freddie Lenix ran on two relay winners. The Tarblooders also had four individual runners-up.

Euclid's Brandon Smith was the other dual-event winner as he earned the shot put (57-5½) and discus (158-1) titles.

[daddyphatsacs]

Lemming is smoking crack. Oneal is a solid lock to OSU. His ties to Ginn only solidify that committment even more.

[gdubya]

This is all the proof i need..

"As far as Ohio State goes, just watch out, my brother (Ted Ginn)is going to come down there and do what he has to do, and then when I come, it's going to be all hell." - Jamario O'neil.

[Buckskin86]

nice Jamario blurb from Plain Dealer

Glenville High star de fensive back Jamario O'Neal will have a heady honor Monday: the senior will greet U.S. Education Secretary Rod Paige during the latter's visit to Canton Timken High and give a welcoming speech.

O'Neal and some 150 other high school players (from Glenville, Timken and Buchtel) will attend the Paige event as part of the National Football Foundation's "Play It Safe" youth development program. O'Neal credits the program for making him a better student at Glenville, where he has a 3.5 grade-point average.

[CleveBucks]

that's phenomenal. Just more evidence of the boys that TGSr. molds into men.

[Buckskin86]

http://www.cleveland.com/hssports_galleries/

[Buckskin86]

http://www.cleveland.com/sports/plai...7370124520.xml

Jamario selected for the AA game

Tarblooders chosen:

Glenville's Jamario O'Neal and Freddie Lenix, two of the premier high school football players in the nation, have been selected to play in the 2005 U.S. Army All-American Bowl, Jan. 15 in San Antonio.

O'Neal, a 6-1, 180-pound cornerback and Ohio State recruit, is the top-rated player in the recent Ohio High Magazine. The 6-0, 195-pound Lenix, a linebacker, is ranked as the state's eighth-best player by Ohio High.

[Buckskin86]

PD article on Jamario

O'Neal transfer turned up the heat
Monday, November 01, 2004
Bob Fortuna
Plain Dealer Reporter

Coach Ted Ginn Sr. has gotten used to taking the heat when a transfer student enrolls at Glenville, but the lamp was turned up a notch when Jamario O'Neal joined the Tarblooders late last season.

O'Neal, a 6-1, 180-pound cornerback-wide receiver-tailback-quarterback, is an Ohio State University recruit and the top-rated senior in the latest publication of Ohio High Magazine.

When O'Neal left Mansfield for Glenville and moved in with the Ginn family, rumors of illicit recruiting ran rampant. But few knew the Ginn family's history with O'Neal, and that O'Neal's mother had passed away several years ago.

Jamario's and Ted Sr.'s dads were friends while growing up together in Mississippi.

Ted Ginn Jr. and Jamario had also hooked up at a indoor track meet in 1998. They kept in contact, a friendship was born and Jamario is in his second school year living with the Ginns. Ted Sr. serves as O'Neal's legal guardian.

"Jamario's dad felt his son needed a mother-figure in his life, and that's where my wife comes in," Ted Sr. said. "Having Jamario in our house has been good for everyone concerned. Jamario is family. He has chores to do around the house. My son gained the brother he never had, and my daughter has somebody to look out for her now that Ted Jr. is at college."

[bucknut11]

Didn't really have a great thread to post this in, but...

Austintown Fitch is beating Jamario & Co 21-14 late in the 3rd quarter. Haven't heard much regarding stats.

[bucknut11]

Glenville 29, Fitch 21 FINAL (Sorry, Mili)

Curtis Smith scored the final touchdown to seal the game for the Tarblooders.

Glenville now plays St. Eds next week. Boone vs. Jamario.

[Buckskin86]

JJ Huddle article on Jamario-free

"I feel like I can dominate a game now but it’s taken some time and there were a lot of things that I had to work on to get to this point, but now I feel like I got what it takes to carry the team," O’Neal said. "As a defensive player I feel very comfortable now knowing I have all of the other guys playing hard behind me. Just being on this team is great and I’m playing with a great bunch of guys on defense."

He hasn’t played on the offensive side of the ball very much to date but O’Neal has been returning kicks all season long although he’s yet to break a return for a score this year.

"I’m happy playing special teams and as far as offense goes, we have a lot of key weapons on offense and they’ve been doing it all year so I’m not going to try to get in their way right now and mess up their rhythm that they already have," O’Neal said.