LB Andrew Sweat (official thread)

[osu_edu]

Sweat faces a more difficult decision in the near future.

Ohio State would like Sweat, a honor roll student with a 3.9 GPA, to finish his high school requirements early and enroll for the second semester.

"I'm thinking about that. I haven't sat down and discussed it with Coach (Ed) Dalton yet," Sweat said. "Ohio State would like me to graduate early. I'd have to go to summer school. We'll see."

why are most of the reporters so dumb??



osu.edu ROCKS!!!

[Bestbuck36]

I've never known Coach Tressel and staff to openly ask a recruit to graduate early. Am I missing something here or is the reporter in question way off on the actual facts, go figure? Having said that I always like to see guys who are ready come in for Spring ball and start learning the playbook and college life. The transitioning is much faster once the fall season starts.

[Madmoney]

Ohio State is on quarters not semesters.

[Buckskin86]

7/1/2007
Trinity's Sweat ruled the rest in three sports

By Mike Kovak, Staff writer
mkovak@observer-reporter.com

Name the sport and Sweat can play it. He makes basketball and baseball look easy but the senior-to-be excels on the football field. That's where Sweat earned his reputation and where he became nationally recognized.

"When you get to the point where his third-best sport is basketball and he's one of the best players without having to go to 47 summer camps, you know you have something special," Trinity football coach and athletic director Ed Dalton said. "This guy has been blessed with that kind of talent. He's earned his reputation."

Athletic freaks of nature normally come in the same package - tall, fast and built with an ego to match their abilities.

That's not Sweat. Yes, at 6-2, Sweat is not short. And, yes, he's quite fast. Ask opposing quarterbacks and running backs who failed to elude his pursuit during the 2006 season. And, no doubt, he's quite strong. Pat him on the back and you'll walk away with a bruise.

"He is probably the best pure football player I've ever coached and he's one of the best players I've ever seen on film. When you watch what he does on film, you wonder how he really does it."

Sweat was so good as a junior, Trinity fans praised him, opponents offered rave reviews - some called him a better high school player than Paul Posluszny, universities across the country recruited him and Sweat was the easy selection as the Observer-Reporter's Boys Athlete of the Year.

By his junior year, Sweat weighed 225 pounds and maintained his exceptional sideline-to-sideline speed. The WPIAL's next great linebacker was about to be uncovered.

"My dad (former Syracuse receiver Gary Sweat) always preached to me that your junior year was really important," Sweat said. "I went in there and just tried my hardest."

At times, Sweat played like a one-man wrecking crew. Against West Mifflin, he made tackles on 20 of the Titans' first 23 plays. He made a one-handed interception against Canon-McMillan. He put up another 20-tackle game against Hopewell. He became the focal point of game plans, particularly that of Thomas Jefferson, and he evolved into an all-state linebacker. In 10 games, Sweat had 165 tackles, two interceptions and too many tackles for losses to count.

O-R Online

[Buckskin86]

7/24/2007
Trinity-TJ game goes national
By Mike Kovak, Staff writer
mkovak@observer-reporter.com

Trinity's WPIAL Class AAA Big Seven Conference home game against perennial power Thomas Jefferson on Thursday, Oct. 11 was originally scheduled to be broadcast on Fox Sports Pittsburgh. The local network will still show the game, but it's being picked up by Fox Sports Net as its Nike Game of the Week.

O-R Online

[OmahaBeef]

This isn't really a Sweat comment, but I'm not sure where else to ask: Why were "is a Buckeye!" threads all un-stickied?

[bkochmc]

Originally Posted by OmahaBeef

This isn't really a Sweat comment, but I'm not sure where else to ask: Why were "is a Buckeye!" threads all un-stickied?

To unclutter the first page... instead there is a sticky thread that links to all committed recruits so they can be found quickly. Buckeye Verbal Commitments for 2008

I love reading how versatile Sweat is... get a little more muscle on his frame (which he will in the strength program) and watch out!

[osugrad21]

Pittsburgh Gazette

Blue Chip Chat: Andrew Sweat

Catching up with the area's top high school football players

Tuesday, August 14, 2007
By Colin Dunlap, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
School: Trinity
Position: LB
Height: 6-2
Weight: 225
The skinny: One of the most heavily recruited linebackers in the country, Sweat is a player who can dominate a game. Coaches rave about his instincts and his ability to rarely be out of position.
College talk: After considering numerous scholarship offers, Sweat chose Ohio State in late May. He had pared his list down to Ohio State and Notre Dame.
Favorite food? I'd have to go with chicken Marsala from Angelo's in Washington.
Is it true you want to be a lawyer? Yeah, most definitely. I want to take over my dad's law firm. Growing up, I have idolized my dad and wanted to put on a suit and tie every day and go to work as a lawyer.
Person you would most like to meet and why: Troy Polamalu. Just the way he plays and how he's so humble off the field makes him someone that I'd like to model myself after.
What's up with coach Jim Tressel's sweater vest look? I like it. I think his style just says class all the way around. He told me that he's always worn it, even back when he coached at Youngstown State. It just shows how classy the guy is.
Are you finally going to beat Thomas Jefferson this year? Let's hope so. We've been training harder than ever, this is the hardest we've trained. To have success, you have to prove it against the best programs and they are, definitely, the best program out there.
People might be surprised to know ... I'm a huge golfer and golf is my favorite sport.

[osugrad21]

BN $

Andrew discusses his upcoming season and says he frequently talks with Pryor and Hale.

[Buckskin86]

Yancich reminisced with Sweat, an Ohio State recruit, about how maybe this was the plan all along. After all, they used to flash the touchdown signal as they crossed home plate after hitting a home run in baseball. They played against each other in grade school, but were reunited in high school. The best friends will be opponents again in college when Penn State plays Ohio State, which is usually the Lions' most anticipated game of the season.

That thought triggers a debate, and it goes something like this.

Sweat: "Penn State might be better this year, but then Ohio State the next four years."

Yancich: "What?"

Sweat: "We have this running back named Chris Wells."

Yancich: "(Sweat) will be at Penn State with me and I'll be like, 'Sean Lee just intercepted that. Oh is he at the 40, 30, 20, 10, touchdown?' "

Sweat: "Wait (Ohio State junior linebacker James) Laurinaitis, two-time All-American, will be making $60 million in a couple months."

But once the bickering calms down, Sweat puts things into perspective, and Yancich agrees with his philosophy.

"We just live life," Sweat said. "We're just still kids. We don't know what to expect. We just love the game and we play it."

Yancich and Sweat are laid-back and high-strung at the same time. They don't feel the pressure of joining programs with high expectations. Their hyper side comes out when they perform toe-touches to see whose is better and talk really loudly when they get excited about playing in college. But there is a serious side to them, especially Yancich, who, along with Sweat, is expected to lead a Trinity team that hopes to improve upon a 6-4 finish and advance past the first round of the playoffs, where the Hillers' season ended last year.

Trinity's Yancich rides energy wave - Pittsburgh Tribune-Review

[BuckeyeNation27]

"Penn State might be better this year, but then Ohio State the next four years."

uh, no.

[wadc45]

BG $

8/23

By Brian Snow...talks at length about the upcoming season and the recruits he talks to.

[Muck]

Originally Posted by BuckeyeNation27

uh, no.

Well he did say "might"....besides I think he was just trying to make Yancich feel better.

[Buckskin86]

Trinity linebacker Sweat heads to big time at Ohio State
By Tricia Lafferty
TRIBUNE-REVIEW
Sunday, August 26, 2007

Trinity linebacker Andrew Sweat still doesn't know what type of athlete to consider himself.
With a handicap in the low 70s, he said golf is his best sport. The infielder's favorite sport is baseball, maybe. He likes basketball, too, and football, which earned him a full scholarship to Ohio State.

"I don't know, I still haven't realized that football is my sport," Sweat said. "I mean, I love football, but I love every other sport. Now, I guess I don't have any favorites. Football is what is getting me a free education, but baseball might be my favorite sport.

Sweat didn't have a chance to choose football; it chose him.

With a 6-foot-2, 233-pound frame, Sweat's size, quickness and agility earned him a four-star rating and more than 50 scholarship offers. In May, he verbally committed to Ohio State over Florida and Notre Dame.
"Andrew has unbelievable instincts," Trinity coach Ed Dalton said. "It's like a great running back; they're not taught, he has them. He gets to the ball. He has unbelievable hip strength. That's why he just kills the ball when he gets there. He has good speed, he's big. He's an instinct guy."

Sweat still can't envision playing in front of 100,000 fans or alongside Ohio State junior All-American linebacker James Laurinaitis. Sweat, who is ranked academically in the top 10 in his class of approximately 370 students, knows he is a small-town boy soon to experience a big-time change after high school graduation.

"(Yancich) is playing for Penn State, the pride of Pennsylvania," Sweat said. "I mean, Ohio State, they've been to the national championship twice in the past five years. Those are just storied programs and at Trinity, we just golf, chillax and live life. I don't think we know. We're just oblivious. We just go about life, but then you look on TV and see Ohio State and 100,000 people. It's just been my dream to play in front of 100,000 people.

Trinity's Sweat headed to OSU - Pittsburgh Tribune-Review

[wadc45]

Chillax...someone has been reading BP...