How did the high school football season go overall?
“Our team performed average this year as we went 4-4 with a tough schedule. We won and lost games we were expected to win and lose. We weren’t the most talented team, but our coaches did their best to work with what was available to them and utilize all potential talent.”
What are your plans now with sports and workouts?
“Right now, I’m admittedly more focused on my offseason workouts than winter sports due to the uncertainty of winter sports. I can plan on working out in a gym, Covid permitting, or at home more so than I can plan on winter school sports.”
How do you feel your team will do next football season?
“I know our coaches are stressing the amount of young talent on our team this previous season that still needs this upcoming offseason to mold and I tend to agree with them. My class and the class below have a lot of kids that got playing time this year that just need another offseason to be great players. One of the biggest things I know I need to do in order to have a great season next year is exhibit better leadership and expect those talents and expect hard work before next season starts.”
What team do you feel will be the toughest competition on your schedule?
“I’m trying not to look that far ahead right now. I want to focus on one day at a time and beating the me of yesterday in my strength, speed, and agility. Alternately, it’s hard not to acknowledge some of the tough teams like Warwick and Governor Mifflin who had phenomenal seasons. In addition there are some other great teams who had great seasons that we could face in the 4A playoffs like Lampeter-Strasburg, but for right now, I’m trying to focus on making large leaps of improvement before thinking about them.”
Who is the toughest individual player your team will face off against?
“For me and my teammates, football has never been coached to us as a game of individuals, but always as a team game. Personally, I don’t get caught up in the talk about so-and-so or this kid has offers from this-or-that school, I see a great individual football player that would not be as good if he didn’t have teammates out there helping him do his job.”
What colleges have offered you at this point?
“UCONN was my first offer back in late July of this year and then UMass, Kent State, Yale, and just recently, UPenn.”
What other schools that have not offered are still recruiting you?
“Harvard, Princeton, Penn State, Rutgers, Duke, Pitt, Liberty, Temple, Miami of Ohio, Army, and a few others have been in contact recently.”
Which school or schools do you feel is recruiting you the hardest
“At this point, I don’t really know. I’m sure when I’m ready to decide it will be clear who wants me the most, but I really only entered the recruiting process last spring so I’m still trying to look at the big picture of the recruiting game in general and figure out who’s interest I have and who’s interest is just a formality.
Do you have a favorite at this point in the process?
“I do have favorites and they would be anybody who has taken chance and offered me without being able to meet me on campus, or through a camp due to the dead period. I was raised to have gratitude and I have gratitude for those 5 schools that have taken that chance on me. Anybody who offers me makes it into my category of favorites. Aside from that, no further favorites until I make a final decision.”
Do you have plans for more trips soon?
“I did have some plans to travel to some campuses back when the dead period was set to end in January, but now that it is pushed back to April 15th, I’m going to have to figure out some new times to travel and adjust some plans. I’m still relying on football camps this upcoming summer to earn a few more offers.”
Did you have a favorite college growing up?
“I did. I grew up a Penn State fan for two reasons, one being the locality of Penn State as a south-central PA-er and two being my dad played at Penn State from 1984-1988 as an OT. Since starting the recruitment process though, I’ve determined that until I decide where I am going, I will have no favorite college teams because until then my recruitment is 100% open.”
“Our team performed average this year as we went 4-4 with a tough schedule. We won and lost games we were expected to win and lose. We weren’t the most talented team, but our coaches did their best to work with what was available to them and utilize all potential talent.”
What are your plans now with sports and workouts?
“Right now, I’m admittedly more focused on my offseason workouts than winter sports due to the uncertainty of winter sports. I can plan on working out in a gym, Covid permitting, or at home more so than I can plan on winter school sports.”
How do you feel your team will do next football season?
“I know our coaches are stressing the amount of young talent on our team this previous season that still needs this upcoming offseason to mold and I tend to agree with them. My class and the class below have a lot of kids that got playing time this year that just need another offseason to be great players. One of the biggest things I know I need to do in order to have a great season next year is exhibit better leadership and expect those talents and expect hard work before next season starts.”
What team do you feel will be the toughest competition on your schedule?
“I’m trying not to look that far ahead right now. I want to focus on one day at a time and beating the me of yesterday in my strength, speed, and agility. Alternately, it’s hard not to acknowledge some of the tough teams like Warwick and Governor Mifflin who had phenomenal seasons. In addition there are some other great teams who had great seasons that we could face in the 4A playoffs like Lampeter-Strasburg, but for right now, I’m trying to focus on making large leaps of improvement before thinking about them.”
Who is the toughest individual player your team will face off against?
“For me and my teammates, football has never been coached to us as a game of individuals, but always as a team game. Personally, I don’t get caught up in the talk about so-and-so or this kid has offers from this-or-that school, I see a great individual football player that would not be as good if he didn’t have teammates out there helping him do his job.”
What colleges have offered you at this point?
“UCONN was my first offer back in late July of this year and then UMass, Kent State, Yale, and just recently, UPenn.”
What other schools that have not offered are still recruiting you?
“Harvard, Princeton, Penn State, Rutgers, Duke, Pitt, Liberty, Temple, Miami of Ohio, Army, and a few others have been in contact recently.”
Which school or schools do you feel is recruiting you the hardest
“At this point, I don’t really know. I’m sure when I’m ready to decide it will be clear who wants me the most, but I really only entered the recruiting process last spring so I’m still trying to look at the big picture of the recruiting game in general and figure out who’s interest I have and who’s interest is just a formality.
Do you have a favorite at this point in the process?
“I do have favorites and they would be anybody who has taken chance and offered me without being able to meet me on campus, or through a camp due to the dead period. I was raised to have gratitude and I have gratitude for those 5 schools that have taken that chance on me. Anybody who offers me makes it into my category of favorites. Aside from that, no further favorites until I make a final decision.”
Do you have plans for more trips soon?
“I did have some plans to travel to some campuses back when the dead period was set to end in January, but now that it is pushed back to April 15th, I’m going to have to figure out some new times to travel and adjust some plans. I’m still relying on football camps this upcoming summer to earn a few more offers.”
Did you have a favorite college growing up?
“I did. I grew up a Penn State fan for two reasons, one being the locality of Penn State as a south-central PA-er and two being my dad played at Penn State from 1984-1988 as an OT. Since starting the recruitment process though, I’ve determined that until I decide where I am going, I will have no favorite college teams because until then my recruitment is 100% open.”
