Keith Heitzman Offered - UPDATE
Good to see y'all again. 3 star DE/TE from right outside Columbus.
**He's deciding tomorrow**
From Allen Trieu: Keith Heitzman from Hilliard-Davidson, a Vanderbilt commitment. I saw it posted elsewhere that he was committed. That is not the case yet according to my sources. He has been offered though and is interested. He could play tight end or a defensive end. I tend to think with the new offense, getting a TE commit is important so my guess would be there.
January 21st, 2011 at 5:40 PM ^
Now time to steal 2 more Tennessee commits
January 21st, 2011 at 5:41 PM ^
i'm sure he's a good player, looks like he's about ten years old
January 21st, 2011 at 5:43 PM ^
He only looks really young because you are getting really old.
January 21st, 2011 at 5:45 PM ^
That is the problem I'm starting to have with high school chicks.
January 21st, 2011 at 6:13 PM ^
+1 for Spiny Norman
January 21st, 2011 at 5:41 PM ^
BK is the informative part of the update coming?
January 21st, 2011 at 5:43 PM ^
According to Rivals hes a solid verbal with Vandy.
January 21st, 2011 at 5:45 PM ^
Is this more of a "has the size, but not the ability" kind of of pickup? I don't mind picking up physically sound kids without technique for the DL, because Hoke and Mattison should be able to coach them up pretty well.
January 21st, 2011 at 5:50 PM ^
at DE, he plays very high.
January 21st, 2011 at 6:23 PM ^
That's true but he looks pretty athletic and farily quick. Probably will be able to coach him up.
January 21st, 2011 at 11:09 PM ^
Hoke might move him to LB so that he will stop smoking weed.
January 21st, 2011 at 5:58 PM ^
so someone please give me something to get excited about this offer. Anything.
January 21st, 2011 at 6:03 PM ^
He always seems to know where the QB is relative to him, based on that reel he played the pass twice a couple times and got his hands up for some good deflections. Not sure of the quality of his competition though, so hopefully someone who knows more about HS football divisions in Columbus can elaborate.
January 21st, 2011 at 6:15 PM ^
competition is OK. Plays against a lot of larger middle class/upper middle class suburban high schools.
That being said, I can't think of too many OSU caliber recruits that have come out of the conference. Mike Adams is probably the last.
January 21st, 2011 at 6:23 PM ^
Well pretty good competition actually . Last year he absoluetly bullied the very very good offensive tackles of Glenville . If that counts for anything .
January 21st, 2011 at 5:47 PM ^
Is this to be taken seriously because I didn't spot a /s in your thread
January 21st, 2011 at 5:49 PM ^
I'm looking into this. I'll let you know if I get a hold of him.
January 21st, 2011 at 5:50 PM ^
My mouse always gravitates towards your up vote, weird...
January 21st, 2011 at 10:10 PM ^
January 21st, 2011 at 5:50 PM ^
After seeing a little film, this kid uses his hands quite well and has a pretty nice spin move to go with it. He looks pretty polished for a high school kid.
Edit. Bk you better hope TomVH confirms or it's off with your head.
January 21st, 2011 at 5:49 PM ^
Bastard.
January 21st, 2011 at 5:54 PM ^
we're waiting.
January 21st, 2011 at 6:01 PM ^
Heitzman, Oy Vay! Does that mean that we need to hire a Jewish coach so Keith Heitzman will have a coach he can relate to?
January 21st, 2011 at 6:14 PM ^
He looks like a Goy to me.....
January 21st, 2011 at 6:16 PM ^
Yeah, he's probably just German
January 21st, 2011 at 7:49 PM ^
Funny, he doesn't look Druish
January 21st, 2011 at 6:11 PM ^
This thread will save your life.
January 21st, 2011 at 6:23 PM ^
ESPN article talking about Westerman flipping from Texas to Auburn has quotes from the man himself:
After the season, my position coach left the program and then [six] other coaches left. It just all changed. There was no more relationship to hang my hat on, and my position coach is [who] I will spend about 90 percent of my time [with]. It was just too little too late. Auburn had it all and I was very close to my position coach there over the last 8-10 months.
As has been reiterated around these parts, the late coaching change has hurt Hoke's chances of landing elite talent this year. That being said, I think so far he's doing well in getting good players interested, and some good players are going to sign with us this year. But let's not (completely) freak out this Feb 2nd if we aren't where we all want to be with recruiting, mmmmkay? Let's wait until 2012 to get a good assessment of were Hoke is with recruiting. (Unless, of course, he exceeds expectations in which case party hard and forget sanity.)
/preemptive plea for Feb 2nd sanity
EDIT: This is not saying Keith Heitzman is not an elite player. I don't know anything about him, and for all I know he will be the next Vernon Davis/Dallas Clark/Dwight Freeney/whoever depending on what position he will play, and is not a comment about any of our other current commits. Just a comment in general highlighting what we all know - that late coaching change = difficult to estabish ties to new coaching staff in such a short amount of time.
January 21st, 2011 at 6:36 PM ^
looks like its confirmed on rivals
January 21st, 2011 at 9:26 PM ^
As a nashvillian, I think stealing Kieth Heitzman would be downright sad. Its been a tough couple of years for the dores especially in recruiting. Last year their only rivals 250 recruit ever died, he got shot. Poor Vanderbilt.
January 21st, 2011 at 10:48 PM ^
For what it's worth, i'm not certain. His parents are indicating that there is a "decision" coming Saturday. By "decision", I think that means either a switch to UM, or a solid commit for Vandy.
Also, Hilliard Davidson (the H.S. this kid is from) is a major power here in central ohio. They won the division 1 (Big School) state championship two or three years ago, and always seem to go far in the playoffs. It would probably be a good school to get a commit from...
January 22nd, 2011 at 4:46 PM ^
Chill out on the 3 star criticism guys, we aren't going to get a great class given the timing of our coaching hire. Gotta fill it out with depth at positions of need. Hope for 3-4 4 stars and take our pick of the 3 stars that are left.
Hopefully Heitzman is a blocking TE, I don't think he's what we need at DE really, though I'd live if that were the case. We don't have any blocking TEs really and they are needed in Hoke's offense. Miller is moving to TE most likely and should be a stud, but he's more Antonio Gates type than anything else.