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The border has been secured. Melvin Fellows had been the most prominent Ohio high school football player in the Class of 2009 to escape the grasp of Ohio State coach Jim Tressel, but with a phone call over his lunch break today, Fellows changed all that. The Garfield Heights defensive end informed Tressel that he was switching his oral commitment from Illinois to the Buckeyes, delivering a ... [link]

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Buckeye Newsstand, April 25
Published 4/25/2008 by Matthew Hager at Scout.com > BuckeyeSports.com
... Feeds Buckeye Newsstand, April 25 [image] By Matthew Hager BuckeyeSports.com Posted Apr 25, 2008 Take a look at the best stories that weren't done by us. Come along as we take a trip around the 'net for all the Ohio State news that you can handle. Friday, April 25 Ohio State picked up another 2009 football recruit Thursday when Garfield Heights defensive end Melvin Fellows switched his verbal commitment from Illinois to the Buckeyes. The Columbus Dispatch and Cleveland Plain Dealer have the details. The Dispatch has a story on the latest ...

Unverified Voracity And Stuff
Published 4/28/2008 by Brian at mgoblog
... dearest friend. A former NFL scout on new Arizona Cardinal FA Anthony Morelli: “He has all the tools you look for in a QB; an athletic body, very strong throwing arm and far better movement then I had expected, but is acutely undercoached and unprepared for the job of being a professional QB.""Acutely undercoached"... does anything sum up Penn State better than those two words? Gentlemen. Hey, guess what? Melvin Fellows had been the most prominent Ohio high school ...

Jim Tressel's Got a Wizard Hat of His Own
Published 4/28/2008 by Brian Cook at FanHouse
... few years back he lifted Michigan tight end Garrett Bushong from Michigan State; he thinks this mostly because Rich Rodriguez came into town and snatched Ohio wide receiver Roy Roundtree from under his nose. Tiller went nuts, derided "wizard hats and snake oil," and they were off. Jim Tressel was asked about this gentlemen's agreement and took what might have been a shot at Rodriguez when he claimed that agreement was in effect "only among the gentlemen." Then he yoinked a kid named Melvin Fellows: The Garfield Heights defensive end informed ...

Ron Zook’s Staff Will Beat You Down for Recruits
Published 8/6/2008 by Jason at Eleven Warriors
... Fellows, of course, would eventually come to his senses, but he was the first big shot fired into the chosen land by the Zooker and there will certainly be more to come. Fellows’ teammate (and fellow Buckeye recruit) Chris Fields summed up the Illini approach: ...

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