2012 WR Frank Epitropoulos Commits to Ohio State

• OneBuckeye

  

  Frank can punt too. He also had offers from Stanford and Wisconsin.
  
  http://ohiostate.rivals.com/barrier_noentry.asp?ReturnTo=&sid=&script=content.asp&cid=1215800&fid=&tid=&mid=&rid=
  
  
  http://rivals.yahoo.com/ohiostate/football/recruiting/player-Frank-Epitropoulos-121540
• OneBuckeye

  

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• wkfan

  Wish we could get him to punt in 2011......
• sleeper

  

  This guy will get a ring, no doubt.
• WebFire

  Looks like a good pickup.
• Writerbuckeye

  

  I wonder if Herbstreit approves of his character.
• SportsAndLady

  

  Weird to see a commitment right now, given the recent news about OSU and Tressel.
• OneBuckeye

  

  SportsAndLady;750570 wrote:Weird to see a commitment right now, given the recent news about OSU and Tressel.

  
  Typically you would see some around/after the Spring game. I think you would have seen guys like Tom Strobel and a couple other commit if things were normal.
• vball10set

  SportsAndLady;750570 wrote:Weird to see a commitment right now, given the recent news about OSU and Tressel.

  
  weird yes, but a welcome diversion
• krambman

  

  Man, I just learned how to spell Sanzenbacher, now I have to learn to spell Epitropoulos? Dang!
• OneBuckeye

  

  http://blog.dispatch.com/buckeyesblog/2011/04/epitropoulos_commits_to_buckey.shtml
  
  Smart young man.
  
  

  Epitropoulos: OSU is 'best football program in the country'
  By TIM MAY
  Frank Epitropoulos proved this morning that Ohio State is still alive and well in the recruiting world, even as the specter of NCAA sanctions cloud head coach Jim Tressel.
  
  A wide receiver and punter from Upper Arlington, Epitropoulos – his father John and uncle Ernie played for the Buckeyes – said he committed to OSU, becoming the sixth member of the 2012 recruiting class.
  
  “I chose OSU because I believe that is the best football program in the country with a great coaching staff,” Frank Epitropoulos texted to The Dispatch. “I feel like I can help them at wide receiver and occasionally punting.”
  
  At 6 feet 3, 195 pounds, he is adept at both. He is considered an outstanding overall athlete by rivals.com which says, among other things, he has been timed at 4.47 seconds in the 40-yard dash (he runs track for UA, and will be competing today) and has a 41-inch vertical leap.
  
  “He is one of the top 15 prospects in Ohio,” said veteran recruiting analyst Bill Kurelic of billkurelicrecruiting.com. “This gives Ohio State really two players in one, because he is an outstanding receiver and one of the top punters in the state.”
  

• Steel Valley Football

  His dad John and uncle Ernie both played for Warren Harding and then Ohio State. I'm told he was an OSU fan his whole life and that the timing of his verbal was to show support for Tressel.
• Tobias Fünke

  

  His offer list is a bit weak for how good he is, but I'm assuming that's because everyone knew he was heading to Ohio State.
  
  6'3 and 4.5 is definitely usable.
• SportsAndLady

  

  Offers from 3 teams, all were in a BCS game last year...yeah that's weak, if only ND would have offered him it would make him look a lot better!
• karen lotz

  

  SportsAndLady;750931 wrote:Offers from 3 teams, all were in a BCS game last year...yeah that's weak, if only ND would have offered him it would make him look a lot better!

  
  SMH.
• SportsAndLady

  

  SMH @ your SMH
• krambman

  

  SportsAndLady;750931 wrote:Offers from 3 teams, all were in a BCS game last year...yeah that's weak, if only ND would have offered him it would make him look a lot better!

  
  I think he meant weak in the sense that he only had three official offers, not in who they were from.
• Tobias Fünke

  

  SportsAndLady;750931 wrote:Offers from 3 teams, all were in a BCS game last year...yeah that's weak, if only ND would have offered him it would make him look a lot better!

  Miss, please calm down.
• karen lotz

  

  Not sure where people are getting he only had 3 offers from.
  
  OSU
  Duke
  Kent State
  Louisville
  Miami OH
  Purdue
  Stanford
  Syracuse
  Toledo
  West Virginia
  Wisconsin
  
  Which is why I was SMH at S&L. He has a pretty weak offer list if you look at the whole thing, not just 3 teams.
• SportsAndLady

  

  West Virginia, Ohio State, Louisville, Purdue, Stanford, Wisconsin....how is that a weak offer list? Am I missing something here?
• dat dude

  SportsAndLady;751609 wrote:West Virginia, Ohio State, Louisville, Purdue, Stanford, Wisconsin....how is that a weak offer list? Am I missing something here?

  
  It's not a weak list. Not missing anything.
• vball10set

  ^^^I tend to agree, karen--I know it's not what you said, but just because an SEC or PAC10 team isn't on here doesn't make it weak
• vball10set

  SportsAndLady;751609 wrote:West Virginia, Ohio State, Louisville, Purdue, Stanford, Wisconsin....how is that a weak offer list? Am I missing something here?

  dat dude;751629 wrote:It's not a weak list. Not missing anything.

  
  I agree--IMO just because you don't see an SEC team on here doesn't mean that it's weak
  
  
  reason for edit: dumbass mistake
• queencitybuckeye

  vball10set;751635 wrote:I agree--IMO just because you don't see an SEC or PAC10 team on here doesn't mean that it's weak

  
  You don't see a PAC10 team?
• SportsAndLady

  

  I see a PAC11 team on there