Couple updates on some Purdue defensive line targets ...
• Defensive tackle/nose tackle Lorenzo Neal hopes to commit within the next few weeks. His top four right now are Purdue, Boise State, Oregon State and Utah. He claims no favorite, but I think it might be hard to pull him away from the Pac-12 at this point. All four schools have offered him and he's visited all of them in some form or another at one time or another.
He is a player Purdue definitely wants.
• Finally reached Jerrion Nelson about his visit to Purdue last week and it does not sound like anything is imminent there, at least not until he's taken some other visits. He has to go to Iowa State, Toledo and Bowling Green, he says. He just visited Arkansas but doesn't have a Razorback offer. He thinks they might offer him but wouldn't expect him to say otherwise.
Purdue's restaurant and hotel management program differentiates it from the field, though, and Nelson said a key factor for him will be his mother's ability to get to his games. He said the five-hour trip from Columbia, Mo., would be do-able for her.
• Told you on Thursday that Mississippi's Jacques Turner said he intends to unofficially visit Purdue for the Oct. 31 Nebraska game, then return for an official visit.
Purdue is Turner's best offer to this point, but he has some SEC interest, too, and a slew of smaller offers in the South.
Purdue needs defensive linemen from here on out.
• Defensive tackle/nose tackle Lorenzo Neal hopes to commit within the next few weeks. His top four right now are Purdue, Boise State, Oregon State and Utah. He claims no favorite, but I think it might be hard to pull him away from the Pac-12 at this point. All four schools have offered him and he's visited all of them in some form or another at one time or another.
He is a player Purdue definitely wants.
• Finally reached Jerrion Nelson about his visit to Purdue last week and it does not sound like anything is imminent there, at least not until he's taken some other visits. He has to go to Iowa State, Toledo and Bowling Green, he says. He just visited Arkansas but doesn't have a Razorback offer. He thinks they might offer him but wouldn't expect him to say otherwise.
Purdue's restaurant and hotel management program differentiates it from the field, though, and Nelson said a key factor for him will be his mother's ability to get to his games. He said the five-hour trip from Columbia, Mo., would be do-able for her.
• Told you on Thursday that Mississippi's Jacques Turner said he intends to unofficially visit Purdue for the Oct. 31 Nebraska game, then return for an official visit.
Purdue is Turner's best offer to this point, but he has some SEC interest, too, and a slew of smaller offers in the South.
Purdue needs defensive linemen from here on out.
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