For the 22 members of the highly ranked Ohio State 2015 football recruiting class not yet enrolled, the day has come. By nightfall on Sunday, they’re expected to be on campus, ready to start summer workouts on Monday with the returning members from the 2014 national championship team.
“I’m very excited; I’m ready to go,” said linebacker Jerome Baker of Cleveland (Benedictine). “I’m ready to compete and help us win another national championship.”
He and new teammate Justin Hilliard of Cincinnati (St. Xavier) were ranked among the linebacking elite nationally during the recruiting cycle, but now they’re about to step into a competitive realm in which they must prove themselves again.