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Trimble has to sit a year. Tribble is immediately eligible. Confusing, I know! Lol

hudl link with highlights.

Yeah. I understand the game is changing and "Small Ball" and what not. But I'm also scratching my head a bit.

And another @LZIp called this one earlier in the week!

I was going to mention this with D'Andre Bulley's commitment. We've landed a couple of guys early in the recruiting cycle who have offers from P-5 schools. I like that. It seems like in the past when we've landed guys with P-5 offers, it's been very late in the recruiting cycle & we've wondered if the P-5 schools had backed off on them & encouraged them to look elsewhere. Pure speculation, but none-the-less, I like that we're landing players w/ P-5 offers before the season's even begun.

Wow! What a well-written verbal commitment. Extremely articulate and thoughtful.

That's quite a list! Great get, Coach Arth! And, yes, 6-1, 220 is one big boy. He may be the Thunder to Peter Hayes-Patrick's Lightning?

He did. I like Torrey and also hope he does well. He needed more confidence in his game, and maybe he's developed that over the past year.

How about Illinois State or Indiana State? I like the idea of playing FCS schools within closer proximity. Sure, none will likely draw as well as YSU, but none-the-less... IIRC, if YSU was to become a yearly gig, they wanted us to play in Youngstown on alternating years. Idk the details of that conversation, but I wouldn't be opposed to playing in Youngstown perhaps once every four years. For the sake of ticket sales we really need another rival.

Bio Triple-Double Prospects dot com presently has him ranked as the #1 SF in Ohio for '21. As an aside, TDP.com has two more Zips' targets - STVM's Malaki Branham & Cleveland Heights' E.J. Farmer ranked as the #1 & #2 SG's in Ohio, respectively.

Here is Trimble's bio from St. John's He's a stocky 6'3" guard. Before I clicked his bio I was crossing my fingers that he was a big. I'm sure he's a player, but do we really need another guard?

^^That was supposed to read "St. John's transfer Bryan Trimble is visiting Akron tomorrow, per source." Via Jeff Borzello.

https://twitter.com/jeffborzello/status/1140406503255498752

Excellent! Please post if you see anything!

As in past years, the initial post^^ will be continually updated so you can easily check up on our ongoing progress.

2020 Commits: *Michael Snowden, LB, 6-2, 195, University Prep HS, Pittsburgh, PA. (3-star rated prospect) *Nate Williams, OL, 6-6, 295, Newark Catholic HS, Newark, OH. (Umm, he claims he's a 3-star prospect... but Idk. Lol) *Isiah Childs, RB, 6-1, 205, Wamego HS, Wamego, KS. (3-star rated prospect) *Joey Marousek, QB, 6-2, 195, North Royalton HS, North Royalton, OH. (3-star rated prospect) *Deacon Allen, DL, 6-1, 320, Rockmart HS, Rockmart, GA. (3-star rated prospect) *Janirr Wade, DL, 6-4, 280, Stephenson HS, Stone Mountain, GA. (3-star rated prospect) *Ronan Chambers, OL, 6-5, 270, St. Edward HS, Lakewood, OH. (3-star rated prospect) *Tony Georges, OL, 6-3, 295, St. Ignatius HS, Cleveland, OH. (Walk-On) *Tristian Brank, TE, 6-4, 230, Erwin HS, Asheville, NC. *Ryan McClain, DE, 6-4, 250, Garden City C.C., Garden City, KS. *Woobendy Gurrier, CB, 6-0, 200, Butler C.C., El Dorado, KS. *Nazir Sy, DT, 6-3, 305, Butler C.C., El Dorado, KS (3-star rated prospect) *Chu Ogbonna, CB, 6-2, 180, Hutchinson C.C., Hutchinson, KS. *Jonzell Norrils, RB, 5-10, 205, Toledo Central Catholic, Toledo, OH. *Teon Dollard, RB, 5-11, 200, Indépendance C.C., Independence, KS. *George Qualls, WR, 6-3, 190, Butler C.C., El Dorado, KS. *Juan Jarrett, LB, 6-2, 185, Princeton HS, Cincinnati, OH (3-star rated prospect) *MyJaden Horton, DB, 6-2, 190, Princeton HS, Cincinnati, OH (3-star rated prospect) *Cole Gest, RB, 5-9, 195, Indiana University / Lakewood St. Ed's HS (3-star rated prospect) *Brycen Yarmo, TE, 6-5, 250, Coffeyville C.C. / Exeter HS, Hudson, NH * = Signed LOI Jaquan Green, DL, 6-3, 285, Fort Scott C.C., Fort Scott, KS / Valley Christian HS, Youngstown, OH Total Verbal Commitments: 20, including 11 3-star prospects. Offense: 12 OL: 3 (Williams, Chambers, Georges) TE: 2 (Brank, Yarmo) WR: 2 (Qualls) RB: 4 (Childs, Norrils, Dollard, Gest) QB: 1 (Marousek) Defense: 12 DT: 3 (Allen, Wade, Sy) DE: 1 (Green) LB: 3 (Snowden, Jarrett, McClain) DB: 5 (Gurrier, Ogbonna, Horton)

Just landed another one Nathaniel Williams, OT/DT, 6'5, 301, Newark Catholic HS, Newark, OH huld video Watching his video, he seems to move really well for an OL.

Good call, @94zipgrad, looks like Snowden is our 1st commit for 2020. Michael Snowden, OLB, WR, RB, 6-2, 195, 4.5 40. University Prep HS, Pittsburgh, PA. hull profile

IIRC, Deji Ibatayo (so?) played PG? Didn’t work out so well.

Javohn Garcia going to prep school