The Ohio State Buckeyes football program isn't used to a flip like this one.
A flip from OSU to North Carolina?
No way, right?
Well, now that Bill Belichick is in Chapel Hill, it can happen.
It did on Wednesday.
Four-star safety recruit Jakob Weatherspoon is now longer coming to Columbus. He plans to be a Tar Heel.
BREAKING: Four-Star Safety Jakob Weatherspoon has Flipped his Commitment from Ohio State to North Carolina, he tells me for @rivals
— Hayes Fawcett (@Hayesfawcett3) July 16, 2025
The 6’0 180 S from Avon, OH had been Committed to the Buckeyes since January
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Making matters worse is that Weatherspoon is from Avon, Ohio. That's east of Cleveland, only a couple hours from Columbus even if you drive slow.
But the allure of Belichick's program must've just been too much, and so the Buckeyes lost a home-state recruit.
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