[LeeCoUKFan]

Junior RB Hall drawing early UK interest

Darrin Hall should be one of Kentucky's top running back targets from the Class of 2015 and he's also one of the top prospects in Ohio.

Kentucky appears to be in very good shape early, too.

The 5-foot-11, 196-pound back from Youngstown (Ohio) Austintown Fitch is up to ten offers with the most recent coming from Louisville.

Hall's contact with most schools has been limited but he does know a good bit about Kentucky.

"I wasn't going to any camps this year but when football season starts I was going to start contacting schools to go to a Kentucky game or a Michigan State game," Hall said. "Schools can't really talk to me but during the school year they would look for information about me or say they've offered me. They would say they want to keep in touch.

"Probably the team that's most interested in me is Kentucky. I'm real close to coach Marrow. Him and my dad kinda grew up together. He's cool. I love him," he said with a laugh. "He was the first coach that offered me back at Nebraska."

But that's not the only connection to Kentucky. Aside from the Stoops family name holding a lot of prestige in Youngstown, an older football player is working on him.

"I talk to (Marcus) McWilson from (Cardinal) Mooney. He was telling me it's real cool and that I need to come down," he said.

Kentucky didn't always have so much of Hall's attention. That has been more recent. An in-state school was always on his mind growing up.

"When I was growing up my favorite school was Ohio State. Being from Ohio that's just the biggest school over here. As I'm getting older that's changing a little bit. I'm not just going off, 'Wow, they're the biggest school.' It's more about who wants me," he said.

"Mainly I want to play. I don't want to go somewhere and not play at all. It's basically about where I'm going to play."

http://kentucky.rivals.com/content.asp?CID=1517275