WVU beats out Pitt for Western PA Offensive Lineman Donnie Barclay.

https://secure.scout.com/a.z?s=159&p=12&...32782.html

Barclay's a good get for the Mounties, but he was a WVU lean all the way. He had a family member who played for WVU. It was an uncle I believe, and he grew up a WVU fan.

Kid will be playing in the NFL

Congrats to the Mountineers.

However,

Quote:Kid will be playing in the NFL

The OL is the hardest area to recruit because there are alot of 'X' factors involved. They are 17 or 18 years old and still have a lot of room. You also need some 'agression' and mental resilency to play OL or DL. You could just have a guy that is really big and dominating smaller guys. You should only evaluate a kid based on how he does against similar sized or bigger guys.

Someone posted that Scout.com did a list of OL, number of stars, and draft ranking and OL had the least accurate projection coming out of high school. Unfortunately, I do not have a link.

I will say this though is that Rick Trickett does an excellent job at developling lineman - at least turning '2 star' guys into beasts in the trenches....

You can never have enough linemen.