06-29-2004, 04:16 PM
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Ohio State has received a football commitment from one of Ohio's top overall athletes, Brian Hartline of Canton GlenOak.
Ohio State's football recruiting effort scored another victory today as the Buckeyes secured a verbal commitment from Brian Hartline of Canton (Oh.) GlenOak high school. Hartline is rated as one of the top 15 overall prospects in Ohio in the upcoming Ohio High magazine.
"I spoke to coach Bollman just a little while ago and I told him I was ready to commit," he said. "Coach Tressel is unavailable, so I didn't get to talk to him."
Hartline has long been a strong Buckeye lean, and the talk was that he would commit to Ohio State if he were offered a scholarship. After a solid showing at Ohio State's camp, Hartline was extended an offer and accepted right away.
An outstanding all-around athlete, Hartline (6-3, 175, 4.4) was getting most attention as a wide receiver, but he has said in the past that Ohio State has expressed interest in checking him out at defensive back as well. Hartline also listed offers from Michigan State, Stanford, Vanderbilt, Cincinnati, Iowa, and Pittsburgh.
Hartline had 41 catches for around 550 yards last year. He placed fourth in the 110m hurdles at this year's Ohio state meet with a time of 14.06, and he placed second in the 300m hurdles with a time of 37.51.
"This is a dream come true," Hartline said. "I just wanted to sleep on it a night, and I knew when I woke up that's what I wanted to do."
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It took Brian Hartline just about 24 hours to decide that he wanted to be a Buckeye.
Hartline, a 6-2, 174-pound wide receiver from Canton GlenOak, was at Ohio State’s football camp with his younger brother, GlenOak quarterback Mike, from Tuesday through Friday, and then Brian stayed around for the senior advanced camp on Saturday.
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With his verbal commitment to Ohio State Monday night, wide receiver Brian Hartline becomes the sixth member of Ohio State's recruiting class of 2005.
His performance there, combined with what the OSU coaches knew about him already, led the coaching staff to extend Hartline a scholarship offer. He accepted it Monday night, becoming the sixth member of the Buckeyes’ recruiting class of 2005.
“The offer is coming FedEx tomorrow,” Hartline told BuckeyeSports.com moments ago. “I talked to Coach Bollman Sunday night and he told me I had the offer. He told me that night I could verbal whenever. He said I could call back and verbal (then). I was like, ‘OK, coach.’ He said, ‘Really, you can.’ So I just decided to do it in the next couple days.”
Iowa, Michigan State, Stanford and Vanderbilt had already offered Hartline, but Purdue and Florida were the teams talking with him the most before OSU offered and he decided to end the process.
Hartline and his brother, who figures to be among Ohio’s top prospects in the class of 2006, stayed with fellow GlenOak product Dustin Fox throughout their stay in Columbus, which only helped the Buckeyes’ cause.
“At the very beginning of this process I was thinking, I’m Ohio State,” Brian Hartline said. “Then the process started going a little bit more and I started to think maybe it wasn’t the place for me. But I went down to camp this week and stayed with Dustin Fox and I camped there and I got to work out in the facility for five days, and I just decided that it was the place to be. The coaches are awesome and I fit in really well there.”
As a junior, Hartline caught around 40 passes for 300 yards and 6 touchdowns. He has been timed in the 40-yard dash at 4.59 seconds and has a grade point average of 3.8.
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Last edited by Buckskin86; 06-29-2004 at 09:05 PM.
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