Weber, the top high school running back in Michigan, committed to Ohio State on Tuesday. Two days later, OSU running backs coach Stan Drayton, who was instrumental in landing Weber, took the same job with the Chicago Bears. Weber offered this reaction on Twitter.
The process also left Thomas Wilcher, Weber’s high school coach at Cass Tech (Detroit, Mich.), heated when he spoke with Detroit Sports 105.1 on Friday.
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“I think Urban Meyer will have to step his game up; we’re going to have to talk,” Wilcher said. “He has come to my school and got the No. 1 athlete two years in a row (Damon Webb Jr. in 2013).
“You cannot come over here, come up to the north and walk out of here with your pockets full and not give us respect.”
Weber had considered flipping back to Michigan, a school he decommitted from after Brady Hoke was fired. Wilcher hit on that in the interview, too.
“He’s got to come to school. He has to face everybody at school,” Wilcher said. “He has to walk out that door and face all these people in the state of Michigan who’s all going to be pointing their fingers in his face and saying, ‘What. I told you so.”
This could blow over, or Weber could ask for a release from his letter-of-intent, which would have to be granted by Ohio State. 247 Sports reports Meyer said he spoke with Weber.
“There was a talk,” Meyer said, via 247sports.com. “I had a long conversation with him, and so did Stan. We’ve got to move forward.”
