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Home Grown: Tough Love From Maple Heights Coaches, Attitude Change Gets Kierre Hawkins to Ohio State

Urban Meyer knows better than anyone the importance of recruiting the fruitful ground of the state of Ohio into his college football program. Due to this perception, Eleven Warriors will look at the 10 Ohio high school programs who produced Buckeyes in 2016.

Ohio Home Grown: Profiling the home-grown talent in Ohio State's 2015 class.

MAPLE HEIGHTS, Ohio — Kierre Hawkins knew Ohio State and Urban Meyer had their eyes focused on another prospect, but as a relatively unknown recruit, needed to capitalize on the golden opportunity in front of him.