Wheatley brothers will attend Canisius High School

[gebobs]

Hell yeah...go Crusaders!

http://www.buffalonews.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=%2F20130618%2FSPORTS%2F130619070%2F1004

The Canisius High School football team will have two major additions this fall.

Tyrone Wheatley Jr., one of the most sought-after football recruits in the country, and his younger brother Terius, will play high school football at Canisius, The News has learned.

It is one of the most significant arrivals in Western New York high school football history.

Tyrone Wheatley Jr. is a 6-foot-6, 250-pound defensive end and tight end who will be a junior this fall. He has already received scholarship offers from Alabama, Penn State, North Carolina, Syracuse and his dad's alma mater, Michigan.

[TigerJ]

Tyrone Wheatley Sr. must have married one tall lady. He was big for a running back but he was nowhere near THAT BIG!

[Skooby]

Tyrone Wheatley Sr. must have married one tall lady. He was big for a running back but he was nowhere near THAT BIG!

She's got legs....

[DraftBoy]

Tyrone Wheatley Jr is a beast, #10 ranked TE in next year's recruiting class.

[psubills62]

Tyrone Wheatley Jr is a beast, #10 ranked TE in next year's recruiting class.
Michigan the favorite, Alabama a contender. He visited Penn State, but don't see us being a factor here. Would be a great get for Bill O'Brien's offense, though.

[OpIv37]

high schools recruit for football?

[Night Train]

If UCLA can recruit an 8th grade QB and Kentucky a 7th grade CB, then Canisius can get brothers who's dad is a local asst. coach.

[ublinkwescore]

high schools recruit for football?

Believe it or not, some do. Look up elk grove high in California...

[The Jokeman]

high schools recruit for football?

I tell this to my father with this all the time as his high school had guys like Mathias Kiwanuka and Jeremy Trueblood play there after he graduated. Like Canisius it's a private high school and tease him that's why their always asking him for more money to get more NFL like talent to play there. Yet honestly there is some truth behind it. Yet it happens moreso in states like California, Texas and Florida where football is more than just a game but a lifestyle.

[Homegrown]

high schools recruit for football?
you must've missed that episode of Friday Night Lights

[coastal]

Loyalty and excellence.

[psubills62]

high schools recruit for football?
Yep, and I think it happens more often with private schools.

Rarely, you see some shady crap going down. Red Lion Christian Academy, for instance. A few years ago, Lane Kiffin offered a then-8th-grader (David Sills) at QB. I saw an article about how Sills' father pumps money into the Red Lion football program and that "academic scholarships" funded by him VERY often go to players on the football team. About a year ago, Red Lion decided to go a different way with the football program and pretty much all the players left to go play for Eastern Christian Academy, which is a football program supplemented by an online school.

[Meathead]

get er done buddy

[DraftBoy]

high schools recruit for football?

Rampantly and its just as nasty as it gets in college.

The best part is the small town papers that "report" on this and try and steer kids to their school over the cross town rival.

[DraftBoy]

you must've missed that episode of Friday Night Lights

Everything about that episode (assuming you mean getting the QB from La.) was accurate based on a different circumstance. Also accurate was the part about kids using fake addresses set up by boosters to get into the district despite living elsewhere.

[gebobs]

Believe it or not, some do. Look up elk grove high in California...
Or Don Bosco in NJ.

[tampabay25690]

Rampantly and its just as nasty as it gets in college.

The best part is the small town papers that "report" on this and try and steer kids to their school over the cross town rival.

Yea it happens all over in Florida.....