The Kansas University football program received its first official commitment from the Class of 2011 on Tuesday, when Blue Valley West offensive lineman Dylan Admire signed a letter of intent with KU.
Admire, 6-foot-3, 265 pounds, is one of six offensive lineman in the Class of 2011 who orally committed to KU coach Turner Gill and the Jayhawks earlier this year. Tuesday, at an all-school signing ceremony, Admire proved that his word was strong.
“It feels really good to finally be signed and have the whole process over with,” he told Rivals.com. “This is pretty much the last step. I’ll be going up (to KU) at semester to start school and start lifting and all that kind of stuff, (so I can) get ready to participate in spring football and just participate as early as I can to help out the team in any way.”
Admire originally committed to Nebraska but changed his mind because of his connection with Kansas and the fact that the KU campus is so close to his hometown.
It wasn’t the first time in his life that the state’s No. 2-rated offensive lineman had to make an important decision. Upon arriving at BV West as a freshman, Admire was still a multi-sport athlete. He liked basketball, football and others and was not sure exactly which direction his athletic career would head. Shortly thereafter, though, he felt a pull toward football.
“When he decided to do that, he made the commitment that he was going to do everything he possibly could to become the best football player he could,” BV West football coach Scott Wright said at Admire’s signing.
The past few years have flown by for Admire, and, with just about a month left in his high school career, Rivals.com’s 26th-best offensive guard in the nation said he could not wait to move on to Kansas for the second semester, where he hopes that his work ethic and early introduction to the program can lead to immediate playing time in 2011.
“Hopefully going in early gives me a better chance of doing some of that stuff,” he said. “It’s sinking in now. When you go through the whole recruiting process, you don’t ever look toward the very end of it, you’re just, you know, living in the moment.”
