Being the youthful brother of present Wisconsin offensive lineman Dylan Barrett, 2023 offensive line prospect Austin Barrett was already very accustomed to the soccer program earlier than his most up-to-date go to to campus on April 16. 

Nonetheless, the go to did mark the primary time that the junior from Saint Charles East Excessive College had the possibility to satisfy with new offensive line coach Bob Bostad. 

Barrett famous that he was impressed by Bostad and appreciated that he was a “easy sort of man and fairly down-to-earth.”  

Nonetheless looking for a proposal from the Badgers, Barrett is hoping to construct on his relationship with the brand new place coach, and he’s “excited to see the place it goes.” Whereas it isn’t 100% clear the place he at present sits on Wisconsin’s recruiting board, Barrett intends to come back again to campus once more within the close to future.  

Nonetheless, the Badgers usually are not the one faculty he’s regularly in touch with this spring. Kansas State, Michigan, and Iowa are additionally talking with the 6-foot-7 prospect, and he already a plethora of different scholarship provides. Of the colleges which have already provided him, Barrett stated, “Cincinnati and Virginia Tech are doing an ideal job of displaying what they’re all about, and I’ve been tremendous impressed with them.” Barrett would go on to say that Indiana and West Virginia, who’ve additionally provided, have been recruiting him laborious as properly. 

Whereas talking with All Badgers over the weekend, Barrett famous that “ideally, I might wish to commit earlier than the soccer season, if not earlier, but when I’ve to attend to go to a camp this coming June, I am prepared to do this.”

Two camps Barrett is at present considering of attending this summer time are Large Ten rivals Iowa and Wisconsin. The three-star offensive lineman is searching for a faculty with an ideal place coach and a historical past of success alongside the offensive line in relation to making a choice, and each faculties match that description. 

Cincinnati and Virginia Tech match that description as properly. Each faculties have a powerful custom and coaches that Barrett has an ideal relationship with already, in Mike Cummings at Cincinnati and former Wisconsin offensive line coach Joe Rudolph who he considers like household.  

No matter the place Barrett’s recruitment goes, some faculty is getting an clever and gifted participant. This low season, Barrett is engaged on his hand placement forward of his senior yr, however his measurement and athletic capacity set him aside at the highschool stage. On movie he reveals a capability to maneuver extraordinarily properly, and he possesses the pliability essential to be a high-level FBS participant in school. 

This spring will proceed to be massive for Barrett as he visits faculties and picks up new provides. With Wisconsin’s recruiting board persevering with to evolve on the place, Barrett is a reputation to observe, particularly if he certainly camps this June. 

His brother Dylan was already working with the second unit at guard this spring as a sophomore, and maybe Austin might wind up carrying a Wisconsin jersey and lining up subsequent to him down the highway. 

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