Name: Ohio State: Buckeyes 2021 commitment Donovan Jackson on elite mindset, Buckeyes recruiting efforts
Uploaded: 2020-03-13T07:30:33.000Z
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This is another episode of terminology, and today's guest is 2021.

Ohio State Commitment Donovan Jackson Donovan Thank you for taking some time this evening to catch up.

It's been but a month and 1/2 now since you announced your almost two months, Two months since you committed to Ohio State.

Uh, last thing a lot more quieter, which was I was kind of the goal.

But, um, Anglo is doing with just going into the radar, doing what I do best.

Getting stronger, faster, more flexible and just gearing up.

Somebody come to come on this I could contribute.

You know, it's funny, like you're pretty low key guy.

Um, and the conversations we've had you can tell that about you.

And you appear to be less Loki when playing the game or competing.

How do you flip that switch from being the guy you are now unassuming, calm, peaceful to the, uh, the guy who doesn't look peaceful on football field.

Well, um, on the field, you know, I've been talking many people like you're not gonna get far, but well, if you're not nasty, so just every play.

My goal is to move my guy at these 10 years down the field, on the ground.

And so if my guys on the ground, But I made a block, see this loss for me and you often.

If I get my guy down, go to go be another guy, opens up more opportunities for the quarterback and run back.

So I just tried to the best I can on the field.

If that means throw my body at four or five people, I'll do it.

And off the field, I just carry myself the way my parents taught me to just try to be risk, respectful, humble stuff like that.

One of the things that I think really drew your attention from the Ohio State staff was Was that demeanor like, Is that something that you see as as rare amongst your peers anymore?

Like the ability to kind of be two different people?

Well, I wouldn't say this rare because I feel like anybody, anybody, anybody do it, but I just feel like the drive to do is rare.

So if I'll do whatever I can to win, so if if I can, if I have the option to put my guy down and go get another guy, so Rein Back doesn't have to make a move on the second level.

That's best me in my main goal if I can get the state to this IV bags and right back around for days.

But it's just the Nationals, and still to me from a young age is driving to do that.

As a sophomore, you were one of two offensive lineman that were under class of 2021 kids selected to the opening finals.

You're looking at a potentially, you know, three years of doing that is that is that ability that you have, you know, and the the way that you play the game, Did you ever expect to see all the success?

I mean, how did this all come about for you?

If I told you I expected all this, you know, coming into coming out of my way for a year, and I was when I was with, my dad finally sat me down and said like Hey, like you go to college for this and I was kind of you know what?

They were so much bigger than fast forward a couple months coming to my nine year.

Okay, like I like I could do this like they they see it in me.

And so going through those camps, it I just had to have that mindset like I could be everyone here.

I respected my poem, but it was just like I can't feed you on every rep, right?

And so it was just, I believe, that mindset that attractive that could start there.

But it's just so During the opening, though, I felt blessed and grateful that experience without a veil in vital out underclassmen.

And so I just had to make the best my opportunity going into bigger guys.

But, um, winning most of my reps and obviously a winning EVP Indian was experience I'll never forget.

Do you remember that first time that coach stud know how state saw you at camp?

I mean, what was their reaction and what was the initial conversation that they have any idea that you had family ties all over Ohio?

I mean, how did that was that, like a lightbulb over their head or what?

Well, they had no idea about who I was until I told him I was okay.

Is that I told him I was from Texas like, Oh, you're from Texas And coming here was showed like a media interest that if you come up from down south until Ohio G have interest.

So they didn't offer me at my when I went my videos of the camp, they offered me probably about 33 and two months later, and then that that's my totals again.

I know the majority of my family's was Cincinnati and asked Cleveland Oh, really?

They recruited me a lot more because before they offered me just a base that are really of interest and then told me I must My family's from alive.

They're like, Oh, so that's what Coach died at that point Because my besides Harden yeah, that's a little inside baseball for the people watching and listening.

There's a little thing called Return on investment when it comes to recruiting and if if, if you're a player from somewhere far away, it takes a lot more effort for Ohio State to recruit them.

But when you have ties to the state into the Midwest, that makes them feel a little bit like more comfortable and going out and putting in the effort.

I mean, we've talked about this a little bit in on Letterman robe and stuff, but when you guys really decided or started to narrow it down and saw that hey, Ohio State was not only an option, but a a likely possibility like a likely outcome, was it harder than you thought it would be like?

Did you want to find reasons for it not to be Ohio State?

Well, funny enough, Um, when I released my own state top 12 I was really only talking about five of those schools, and Ohio State was wrong.

And so when I visited those five schools over my period, I always thought it was compared to all have Santa.

This house is better that I kept finding myself comparing to Ohio State.

So finally, like, uh, some of my friends, even my dad was like, If you're comparing 70 days, gets a laugh state like, I think that's where you want to go.

But when I visited for the painstaking right, no intention of committing like I would just be like a Gamma come for game, Then it's still go back to Texas, and people are being recruited to go through all that process.

But, um, after the game and after the I went to the atmosphere.

But after seeing what the house of the brotherhood of the team, the glue they have after sitting down coach stud for some of the day, Um, I'm going back to Sea Coast day.

After that, I told my parents of like, Hey, is it cool if I like committal at State?

And when I initially told him No, my mom's like, overjoyed.

My dad was, My dad told me, was like, You gotta be sure about this like there's no going back on your word as a dad.

And so um, well, I went back in the coach days office, he asked you is like, Hey, so what?

Your what your winter plans like Like where you visiting was?

Well, actually, coach, my plan is to commit to a lot of state.

Costa came running in the room, coffee in hand.

How bothered were the recruiting staffers who had to take the photos in the horseshoe when it was pouring down rain after that pen sticking?

Because those were those were unique photos.

The guy who took this was bobbing dog because he's just like a man you really goes that you have agreed to give.

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