Mike Mitchell Is A Buckeye!!!

Today, Mike Mitchell made official what we’ve expected since this summer, and became the latest verbal commitment to Ohio State at the Army All American game.

In fact, here’s the article that we’ve had loaded up in the on deck circle from early July of 2012-

Well, that escalated in a hurry. (ha… if only we knew)

Earlier this week, whispers started to fly regarding Plano Texas linebacker Mike Mitchell’s interest in Ohio State, although the Buckeyes were said to be in the mix with Florida State and Texas A&M.

Friday, though, things got serious. First, Mike excelled at Oregon’s Nike’s “The Opening” competition, and set a new national record in total SPARQ  score with a 154.47 score, including a 4.39 laser timed 40 yard dash. While in Eugene, he began to connect with other Buckeye commits and word began spreading that he was Ohio State’s to lose.

And today, it became official as he gave his verbal as the fourteenth member (whoops!) of the 2013 recruiting class.

At 6′ 3″ and about 220 pounds, he also had interest from Oregon, TCU, Southern Cal, Nebraska, Oklahoma, and Old Miss in addition to the schools mentioned earlier.

Mike has a history of hoops excellence as well; here’s video of him dunking over opponants during a game his sophomore year. For basketball junkies, you’ve got to wonder if this might also help Mickey, Mike’s younger brother and a top recruit for 2015, consider joining the scarlet and grey… the younger Mitchell is a pretty decent football player as well.

Since that time, Mike has been identified as a 5 star linebacker and the number two player at his position by Scout, and has had offers from every school in the country. His “hat choices” included Texas A&M and Oregon.

Mike’s official was the weekend of the 2012 Celebration, and confirmed what he’d believed to be true all along- that Ohio State was the place for him to spend the next four years or so.

After the jump, check out his highlight video- he plays with good speed and a lot of aggression. Oh, and his nickname seems to be “The Abusement Park”. I kid you not.

Mike has pretty decent wheels, too:

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This is a fun video- recorded by Mike’s dad, and you can hear his family cheering him on rather than a overdubbed soundtrack:

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Welcome to the Buckeye Family Mike- it’s great to have the Lone Star State represented in Columbus!