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The staff is still recruiting 2016 OT E J Price

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The 6-foot-6, 317 pound lineman has some sound advice for those going through the recruiting process. "I've seen a lot of kids get offered, and coaches tell them, 'You've got an offer,'" Price said. "They put out over a hundred verbal offers a year. That doesn't mean anything. A lot of schools have hit me up, but some feel like I'm not interested in them as well. A lot of schools haven't sent me the offers I thought they would. Oklahoma, for example, I talked with during my sophomore year a lot, but I kind of stopped because I was worried about so many other schools. When I didn't get the offer from them, I said 'Hold on.' I hit them up, because that's O-Line U. I asked what was going on. They said, 'Oh, E.J., of course, man. We want you. We just thought you were completely done with us because we hadn't heard from you.' They saw the top ten, and they weren't in it. They said, 'We thought we were out of it, but we want you.' A lot of kids get caught up in the hype. It's not about that." As for his own list, Price says his top eight stands firm: LSU, Tennessee, Georgia, Oklahoma, Ole Miss, Auburn, Florida State and Michigan in no order. "I released my top eight, and those are the schools I'm still considering," Price said. "When you're going through it, you think 'Oh, I've got this offer and that offer.' At the end of the day, you can only pick one. Those top eight are the ones I'm considering. There are a few others that I might make officials to, like Michigan State. It depends, but they've been contacting me a lot. There are a couple others contacting me that aren't on the top eight, but, for the most part, the schools I'm interested in are in the top eight. People can try to twist it and put it any other way they want to, but it is what it is." When asked who was standing out, Price thought better of the decision to name any leading schools, but he's got plans on how to handle his upcoming officials. "Auburn, Georgia...you know what, I'm not going to do that right now," Price said. "They're all the same. My decision will probably be after I take my officials, to be honest. I'm probably going to take one to Oklahoma just to get out west. That's probably the only one I know for sure right now. Maybe Michigan or Michigan State. I'm not really sure. With my officials, I'm going to take them to places I can't necessarily get to by driving." - See more at: https://michiganstate.rivals.com/content.asp?CID=1790372#sthash.OAl5hCKW.dpuf
 
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