• Ronnie Stanley to visit Arkansas, ND

  • By Greg Biggins | August 24, 2011 2:04:34 PM PDT
Ronnie Stanley (Las Vegas/Bishop Gorman) had an impressive opening performance a week ago when the Gaels blew out one of the elite programs in the West region. The standout offensive lineman has a huge list of schools but does have two visits set up and said a handful of schools are recruiting him the hardest.At 6-foot-6, and 285 pounds, Stanley is an athletic offensive line prospect and just looks like what a college tackle is supposed to look like. The knock on Stanley has always been he can definitely move but wasn't physical enough. That didn't appear to be the case last Friday when he and the rest of the Gaels line knocked a talented Chaparral (Scottsdale, Ariz.) team off the ball all night in a convincing 42-22 win."I had so much fun," Stanley said. "We've been working so hard, three-hour practices and weights on our own and it was all worth it. If you're a lineman, you love to run the ball and you love when you can tell you're wearing down a defense. We kept it simple in the second half and just played smash mouth and it was a lot of fun for us."On the recruiting front, Stanley has visits lined up with Arkansas and Notre Dame but said he has no idea where his last three visits will be."I still have a huge list," Stanley said. "I'm going to Notre Dame (Oct. 21) when they host USC. I'm also visiting Arkansas but off the top of my head, I don't remember that date. It's in October also, might be the week before but I'm not 100 percent sure on it."The other schools on my list are Auburn, USC, Arizona, UCLA, Washington, Florida State, Miami, Vanderbilt, Nebraska and Oklahoma. I'm not real sure on Miami right now because of some of the things I'm hearing and reading about. I would say the schools recruiting me the hardest are probably USC, Auburn, Notre Dame and Arkansas. I'm going to wait until probably the middle of the season and then I'll cut my list down again to a top five or seven."

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