Noah Brown at Ohio State was the kid that wanted to verbal, but something broke down along the way of his goal of verballing to RU and him getting the offer from Ohio State....he broke a bone in his leg last year, but is back and looks 100% this year.
Blacknall is a mystery, he has the size, nice kid, but not a fluid WR...watched him twice live in HS and never saw a game changing player in HS, but I also saw Blacknall vs Sayreville and Myles Hartsfield. Hartsfield didn't want any part of tackling Manalapan that night and I would have felt Blacknall would have had the better career, figuring Blacknall would develop into a Brandon Coleman type player . Instead Hartsfield prepped after the Sayreville debale and is now at Ole Miss about to host Alabama next week and Blacknall hasn't stepped up yet.
The concerns at the time from the WR's recruited was the crop of QB's on the roster after Nova and that has proven to bear itself out as a huge factor. If we had landed a better QB under Schiano and Flood to follow up after Nova, we would have possibly seen a different result in recruiting. Hackenburg was in place at PSU along with other kids in the fold....At some point RU needs to step up it's QB recruiting, if you want better playmakers on the outside.