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Recruiting Roundup
BY GOLD AND BLACK STAFF
SPRING VISITORS
Purdue's continued to see
a steady stream of recruits
passing through West Lafayette for its spring practices.
An anticipated visit from
blue-chip tight end Nic
Weishar fell through Saturday, but Purdue did have
four other prospects on
campus for its scrimmage:
Illinois cornerback Lamar
Dawson, local running back
Maurice Woodard, South
Bend receiver Shaq Vann
and Northwest Indiana linebacker Brendyn McKinnon.
None of them have offers, but Dawson said he
hopes to hear from the Boilermaker staff this week.
Thursday, Purdue is expected to host two nationally recruited Illinoisans in
center recruit Brian Allen
and tight end Ian Bunting,
teammates at Hinsdale CenBill Ray
Blue-chip Illinois tight end Ian Bunting is scheduled to make a return
tral near Chicago.
trip to Purdue in the final week of spring practice.
Allen
holds
more than a dozen
offers, the likes of
Michigan State, Wisconsin and Virginia
Tech included.
Bunting, one of
the top tight end
recruits nationally,
counts USC and Oregon among his most
recent offers, as
those Pac-12 schools
joined existing offers from Michigan,
Notre Dame and
Oklahoma among
many others. This
would be at least
Bunting's third visit
to West Lafayette.
He attended a game
last fall then a junior
day this winter.
MATHIAS VISITS
Ohio shooting
guard Dakota Mathias made his official
visit to Purdue last
week as planned. The Boiler"I think they're in an even
makers led for the 6-foot-5 re- better place with me than they
cruit prior to the visit and noth- were before," Mathias said.
"They did a great job with (the
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