'18 PA OLB Matthew "Bo" Bauer (Notre Dame Early Enrollee)

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EARLY ENROLLEE
Matthew 'Bo' Bauer
Inside Linebacker
Erie, PA
Cathedral Prep
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Measurements:
6-2.5
222

Rankings 6-1-17:

247 Comp ....... 4 star ..... #4 ILB ....... #139 OA .......... .9394 rating
247 ................. 4 star ..... #3 ILB ....... #137 OA ........... 92
Rivals .............. 4 star ..... #5 ILB ....... #103 OA ........... 5.9
Scout ............... 4 star ..... #15 OLB .... #171 OA
ESPN ................ 4 star ..... #6 ILB ....... #197 OA

Rankings 11-8-17:

247 Comp ....... 4 star ..... #10 ILB ....... #240 OA .......... .9107 rating
247 ................. 3 star ..... #20 ILB ....... #283 OA ........... 88
Rivals .............. 4 star ..... #5 ILB ......... #132 OA ........... 5.9
Scout ............... 4 star ..... #10 OLB ...... #181 OA
ESPN ................ 4 star ..... #15 ILB



Offers:
Notre Dame ..................... Committed - 8-3-16
Iowa St
Maryland
Mich St
Penn St
Pitt
Syracuse
Vandy
Virginia
WVU
Akron

Media Links:

Twitter - BoBauer27

]Matthew Bauer - Hudl

Cathedral Prep (Erie, PA) Football |MaxPreps

Highlights:

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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">This guy is a WINNER! <a href="https://twitter.com/BoBauer27?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@BoBauer27</a> has been waiting for nearly two years to join <a href="https://twitter.com/Coach_Lea?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@Coach_Lea</a>'s LB core.<a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/GoIrish?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#GoIrish</a> ☘ <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/IrishBouND18?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#IrishBouND18</a> <a href="https://t.co/LLbiVtFtaS">pic.twitter.com/LLbiVtFtaS</a></p>— Notre Dame Football (@NDFootball) <a href="https://twitter.com/NDFootball/status/943456512806150144?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">December 20, 2017</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>
 
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Camping at ND this summer. Plays on a Maxpreps Top 10 school in PA. In 11games he had 104 tackles, 11 TFL and 3.5 Sacks.

Watching his film is a lot like watching Pete Werner's. He just got on the radar earlier.

Sounds like he grew up a PSU fan. Also appears to be a good baseball player, plays national travel ball.

Here's a freebie from Scout:

2018 LB Matthew Bauer was offered by Penn State; Michigan, Notre Dame on radar - Football Recruiting - Scout

2018 LB Matthew Bauer was offered by Penn State; Michigan, Notre Dame on radar

03/25/2016
Erie (Pa.) Cathedral Prep 2018 linebacker Matthew Bauer already holds a Penn State offer, and more are sure to follow.

Matthew Bauer landed a Virginia offer during his freshman season, but the Erie (Pa.) Cathedral Prep standout did not hear from many other schools ...until Thursday.
Then, the 2018 linebacker got back in touch with Penn State and picked up an offer that eased his mind, could change his recruitment, and brought a huge smile to his face.
"When I was younger, I was the biggest Penn State fan," Bauer said. "I was all into it. I got to go to a few games. I really liked them. It's nice (to get the offer) because it's a big one, and it takes the pressure off. It's big to me, but I try to keep my head down and keep working."
Bauer is set to camp at Michigan and Notre Dame this summer, but Penn State received its first glimpse of Bauer last summer when he performed well at its camp last summer.
"They said they liked me," Bauer said. "I came back a month later and visited, and then I went to the San Diego State game, and then they told me to call them but we weren't in contact for a while. Then, they contacted my coach and they wanted me to call them, and then they said they wanted to offer me.
"I was kind of surprised, really."
Bauer likes Penn State a lot, but he will make other visits. However, because he plays baseball, getting to schools in the spring is difficult so he is looking at the late spring camp circuit in making his mark.
"I'm going to the Michigan and Notre Dame camps, for sure, right now," Bauer said. "Those are two I am definitely looking at. Michigan State is interested, so that might be a possibility as well."
Although Bauer has not had much contact with Michigan and Notre Dame, he is interested in both schools because of the combination of football and academics.
"I'm interested in a business degree, and (Michigan is) pretty high in business degrees,he said. "They're ranked pretty high, and same with Notre Dame. It's an academically prestigious school, and that's something that I'd like to have as well."
 

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Cathedral is one of the best in the state. Great team, usually not a ton of D-1 talent though on a national level. Love that ND is recruiting PA hard recently.
 

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Coming for Irish Invasion.

PSU And ND In Great Shape For 4-star LB Bo Bauer - TU


The 247Sports, 92 overall 4-star is also being recruited by West Virginia, UCLA, Notre Dame, Michigan and Stanford, so more offers could be on their way for the 6-foot-3, 202-pounder.

“Notre Dame, that’s one of my tops,” Bauer said. “I’m pretty interested in them and Stanford, but there hasn’t been a whole lot of communication with Stanford yet.”

Should the Irish offer, they “would be at the top of the board” with Penn State, Bauer said.

Bauer separated his shoulder in the first game of his sophomore season, but finished strong by logging 111 tackles in nine games. His recovery, performance and the highlights he produced has many of the nation’s heavyweights making him a priority for their 2018 recruiting classes.

“They like how I’m kind of long and lanky,” Bauer said. “They like my lateral movement and how I’m fast, but I can still come downhill. I can run down running backs from behind, I can still drop back into pass coverage, fip my hips and things like that, and sack the quarterback.”

While Bauer still has close to two years to figure things out and make a decision, he has three main factors he’ll be looking for in a school.

“I want to play big-time football,” Bauer said. “I’d like to get a good education, so somewhere with a prestigious school there for that. I play baseball too, so somewhere that would let me play both sports so that’s probably the big three.”

“I’m going to Notre Dame this summer on June 18,” Bauer said. “I’m going to Michigan on June 20 and I’m going to Stanford in late July or early August.”
 

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PREDICTION: Notre Dame. The Irish haven’t offered yet but they will and he will commit. How’s that for direct and blunt?--mike farrell
 

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PREDICTION: Notre Dame. The Irish haven’t offered yet but they will and he will commit. How’s that for direct and blunt?--mike farrell

Wonder if he's got anything solid on that or is he jumping on the ND's grabbing all the white guys in the WPIAL train?

I've read a lot of local stuff on Bauer and what I've seen is 100% PSU comments. No Pitt, no ND mentions. Not even a, "I talked to Phil Jurkovec..." Now, that could be because the authors are all asking PSU questions but he has said PSU was his team growing up. I think they all have said that at one time or another though.

I hope ND can continue the success in WPa. The program was built on those guys, i grew up rooting for them. It just feels right when they are part of the program.

Now get off my lawn.
 

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Wonder if he's got anything solid on that or is he jumping on the ND's grabbing all the white guys in the WPIAL train?

I've read a lot of local stuff on Bauer and what I've seen is 100% PSU comments. No Pitt, no ND mentions. Not even a, "I talked to Phil Jurkovec..." Now, that could be because the authors are all asking PSU questions but he has said PSU was his team growing up. I think they all have said that at one time or another though.

I hope ND can continue the success in WPa. The program was built on those guys, i grew up rooting for them. It just feels right when they are part of the program.

Now get off my lawn.


from 247 Notre Dame offer would put the Irish right up there with Penn State, especially an offer this early in the process...he is also a DIV 1 baseball prospect and plans to play both...hook him up w/ hunter jr
 

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from 247 Notre Dame offer would put the Irish right up there with Penn State, especially an offer this early in the process...he is also a DIV 1 baseball prospect and plans to play both...hook him up w/ hunter jr

Have him talk to Jeff Samardzija...or Golden Tate...or...
 

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Much like Hinish, he grew up a PSU fan. We'll just have to see if that matters more than education and football.
 

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Much like Hinish, he grew up a PSU fan. We'll just have to see if that matters more than education and football.

If you're at a Catholic school in WPa, you are surrounded by ND fans or at least people that see ND as a back up team. Could very well be his situation too. That's a huge advantage for ND on the recruiting trail, Nd isn't the most popular team anywhere outside of Chicagoland and Northern Indiana but it's Top 2-5 in more markets than any other school by a wide margin.
 

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Good news from a free Hugh Davis story by Anna@Scout:

Offer coming per Elston.

“He had me, Dallas Gant and Matthew Bauer rounded up at the end,” Davis said. “At some point, he said all three of us will have an offer. That feels amazing. Notre Dame is one of those places. It was great to hear.”

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Teammate of ND commits <a href="https://twitter.com/petewerner23">@petewerner23</a> & <a href="https://twitter.com/markese_stepp">@markese_stepp</a> hoping to add Irish offer <a href="https://t.co/ozq3SMYRBI">https://t.co/ozq3SMYRBI</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/HughD5vis">@HughD5vis</a></p>— Anna Hickey (@AnnaHScout) <a href="https://twitter.com/AnnaHScout/status/745457692341264385">June 22, 2016</a></blockquote>
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He goes to the high school I graduated from. Very catholic. However, in the last couple of years Michigan St. has grabbed 2 kids from the school and it is starting to be pipeline. I feel like it comes down to MSU PSU and ND
 

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He goes to the high school I graduated from. Very catholic. However, in the last couple of years Michigan St. has grabbed 2 kids from the school and it is starting to be pipeline. I feel like it comes down to MSU PSU and ND

Bauer is going to be a much bigger recruit than Williams or Terry. They are at MSU because of lack of interest elsewhere and possibly the fact that PSU was going through the Sandusky sex scandal (and in Terry's case, that was Hackenburg's class.) I just looked them both up and Damion Terry was an interesting recruit. He was actually the #5 dual threat QB in '13, one spot behind Malik but only had 4 offers. He did lock in on MSU early and shut it down but 4 offers is pretty thin.

And a word of advice... p!pel!ne is a semi-banned word here at IE. Avoid it at all cost along with ARE KAY GEE. Both will get you Koon'd.
 

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Even though he doesn't have the offer yet he called ND his leader. However, BVG doesn't want him playing two sports in college and apparently playing baseball is something he's considering. We told him that we won't offer until he makes the decision to only play football.

I'd offer and take this kid tomorrow, if it were up to me.
 
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Even though he doesn't have the offer yet he called ND his leader. However, BVG doesn't want him playing two sports in college and apparently playing baseball is something he's considering. We told him that we won't offer until he makes the decision to only play football.

I'd offer and take this kid tomorrow, if it were up to me.

Wow. That's a bad sound when you have a current player doing both. Did I read something about Kmet possibly pitching? I know he plays summer ball and crafty 6-4 southpaws don't grow on trees.

One other thing to mention. Noah Burks didn't get that speech last year. He was another high level travel ball player. Maybe it's a new policy and Hunter made the grandfather clause.

Lastly, Hugh Davis stated in an interview that Elston told Gant, Bauer and him they would all get offered eventually. Gant ended up with the offer while there.
 

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F'kn BVG. We have dudes play both all of the damn time. Why is he hell bent on farqing everything up for us all of the time?
 

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Who was the last defensive player to play two sports? I can only think of the recents on Hunter Jr, Tate and Shark.

Most baseball players aren't built like D1 linebackers.
 

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Is anybody on the defense playing both? If memory serves me, it's only been offensive players.
 
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I have a feeling that this kid ends up at Penn State.
 

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lol guess we should just go ahead and kick Tori Hunter off the team. Just when you think you can't hate BVG anymore. You offer this kid right now and you have your fifth 2018 commit and you're first LB who is a 250 kid.

BVG probably thinking "well it takes three years to learn my defense so there will be no time to play baseball"
 

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Could it be because playing baseball would prevent him from bulking up in the offseason?
 

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Could it be because playing baseball would prevent him from bulking up in the offseason?

No they specifically told him that the Mike LB has too much to learn in our system, lol. What a recruiting pitch that is.
 

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No they specifically told him that the Mike LB has too much to learn in our system, lol. What a recruiting pitch that is.

lol I guessed it without reading the article. That has to be such a turnoff for a kid wanting to come in and play in our defense.
 

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Like he's got three years to worry about it. Tick tock goes the clock.
 

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It's funny how you rip BVG, but he is actually being honest with the kid compared to other programs. If the kid wasn't picking up the defense, you would complain about the kid playing baseball during the spring.

Would you want DeShone Kizer playing baseball and football? That's essentially what the MLB is. The kid will realize that he can't do both in college and also realize ND was honest with him the whole way through. That's the way these things happen.
 
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