I'm not knocking him, I am knocking the stats. He is a football player with potential. Feeding him and the local area with puffed up stats is just flat out wrong, for the players sake. Anyone who watched these three play and has a good background within the game (I would hope) ranks them:
1) Norris
2)Manzyck
3)Heiber
4) Hartzell
Could he further develop as his career progresses? I'm sure he will. Norris was a menace on the field, the defense was premised around funneling the football to him, he was the Titans defense - not to mention he was a man among boys. Manzyck was and is a hard nosed ball player that fly's around and was a game changer for the skins. I list Heiber above Hartzell because West did not have much going for them defensively besides him, there were games through the majority of the season where he was the defense, I hope you share that same opinion for you coached against him in week 1. I do look forward to seeing Hartzell play for the next two years, he is young and has the potential to grow as a player.
But whoever took those stats needs to see what those more than false numbers are doing, it is creating a hype that isn't real. As for the visit, it was a unofficial visit, plenty of players throughout the country take unofficial visits to D1 colleges and won't play there.