Ok, wrong school. he did have a scholarship offer from Alabama, and everyone in his home town wanted him to go to bama. But the facts remain, he had an awesome junior year in high school. he was great at several summer all-star camps. he suffered a small injury his senior year, and was a non-factor for his team. he went to UGA where he was a non-factor. he transferred back to illinois. he sat out a year. and this year he is still a non-factor.
basically, he was huge and 6-6 his junior year. Statistically, he didn't catch very many passes, and was not really that fast. But he was great at those all star camps. and he was ranked by many recruiting services as the second highest TE for his class and earned a 4 star rating. The ratings were primarily based on his physical appearance and his all star camps and his potential rather than actual game performance.
But he peaked. and was almost a complete no-show his senior year in high school. Yet every NCAA power 5 school except Purdue was interested in him. Purdue dodged a huge bullet.
That is why I'm asking how Yanni is doing his senior year. i find it odd more power 5 schools aren't trying to lure him. he's one of the last few non-committed elite athletes. I remember a coach once saying he's not going to give up recruiting a player until he signs his LOI. and i've seen many coaches flip a player. He's sure different than his brother was. His brother was one of our first commits in his class, and he helped bring others to Purdue. Yanni has been a very wait and see type of person. he once said he was going to Michigan until their defensive coach recruiting him left. Maybe he wants to wait and see what happens to Harbaugh.
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