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02-09-2006, 09:23 AM
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2/9 PG WEST: Lineman Blankenship will not be lacking for scholarship offers Thursday, February 09, 2006 By Rich Emert, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette A week ago, Center High School defensive back Ashton Cobb signed a letter of intent to play football at Kentucky. Perhaps no one was more interested in Cobb putting his name on the NCAA form than Evan Blankenship. Blankenship is a junior at Center, one of Cobb's teammates and a sure-fire Division I prospect for the Class of 2007. A lineman, Blankenship has the size -- he's 6 feet 4 and 310 pounds -- and athletic ability that makes college coaches drool. Add in a grade-point average in the 3.4 range and it is easy to understand why Ohio State and Pitt had offered him scholarships before last week's national signing day. "He played basketball last year and moves well for a guy his size," Center coach Larry Taddeo said. "He's not playing this year but that doesn't mean he's just laying around. He's a hard worker." Blankenship has been on the Center varsity since he was a ninth grader. He has improved every year and came on this past season. It hasn't hurt that he has had Cobb as something of a recruiting role model. "Ashton is one of the hardest workers I've ever been around," Taddeo said. "The other guys have seen that and they've seen how it has paid off for him. I would say that's rubbed off on guys like Evan." Taddeo said Blankenship is a better pass-blocker than run-blocker at this stage of his career, which makes sense. It's easy to keep opponents away from the quarterback when a player has Blankenship's size and agility. "We have another lineman, Nate Glasser, who is also a good one. He plays right beside Evan, but he doesn't have the size," Taddeo said of Glasser who is 6-0, 275. "If he was a couple inches taller he'd be getting all kind of attention, too." Another Center player who could blossom into a Division I prospect is junior quarterback Carl Farrow, who is 6-4, 175. "He's got a strong arm," Taddeo said. "I think he'll get some looks."          
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02-20-2006, 12:26 AM
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2/19 Good read from Steve Helwagen where Evan discusses his tOSU offer and his probability of taking all five visits before deciding.
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02-28-2006, 07:21 AM
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2/28 Evan enjoyed his visit to Pitt and says the Panthers and tOSU are his leaders. He denies being a tOSU lean.
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03-01-2006, 09:54 AM
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2/28/06 By Mike Farrell...more on the visit to Pitt. He grew up 20 minutes from Pitt and his father's side of the family are big Buckeye fans, which is why those are his early favorites (and the fact both have already offered).
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03-01-2006, 10:48 AM
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03-01-2006, 11:56 AM
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he is also coming back to osu to camp i believe, which definately doesnt hurt osu's chances.
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03-01-2006, 03:25 PM
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If we can get him in for an official visit against PSU, I think he's ours to lose. The college football environment difference between OSU and Pittsburgh is like night and day. Existent to the extreme, vs. nonexistent.
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03-01-2006, 03:52 PM
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03-03-2006, 10:20 AM
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Seriously, I think he could come to the spring game and the environment would be better.
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03-03-2006, 04:38 PM
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Last season, the following prospects visited Ohio State for a game weekend: Navorro Bowman; Wesley Lyons; McKenzie Mathews; David Ausberry; Colin McCarthy; Aaron Brown; A.J. Wallace; Steven Wesley. None signed with the Buckeyes. In fact, it is rare that prospects who visit during the season end up signing with Ohio State. Over the past five years, only three legitimately uncommitted players (not "silent verbals" or "locks") - Dajuan Morgan in 2003, Ashton Youboty in 2002, Richard Washington in 2001 - visited Ohio State during a game weekend and subsequently committed to Ohio State; only one - Youboty - actually signed with OSU. (In 2004, Lawrence Wilson made an in-season visit, and then committed to Notre Dame, before signing with Ohio State on NLOID). Conclusion: Game day experience does nothing to sway most recruits, and may actually be a negative factor since the coaches and players have very little time to spend with the recruits. The most effective visits happen after the season has concluded.
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03-03-2006, 05:00 PM
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True, but he's already been here for multiple games.
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03-03-2006, 05:03 PM
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My gut is filled with very little new info but it still tells me he ends up at OSU. I was worried about PSU early on, but it sounds like that is no longer the challange. I will see some of his distant relatives soon and will press for an update.
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03-23-2006, 12:07 AM
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I read that Pitt is going to hold one of their spring practices
on his home field this week or next. I can't imagine what a zoo it would be if tOSU held open practices at area high school stadiums.
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