Bill Kurelic joins Bucknuts.com as Recruiting Analyst

Bucknuts
Media Network has announced that Bill Kurelic, widely viewed as the leading
college football recruiting analyst in the region, has joined Bucknuts.com, the
largest independent Web site devoted to

Ohio
State
University athletics. Kurelic starts
with Bucknuts July 2, 2007.

“Bill
Kurelic is the ‘dean’ of college football recruiting coverage in
Ohio and – for all intents and purposes – in the
Midwest,” said Steve Helwagen, managing editor of the
Bucknuts Media Network. “Bill is a major addition to our already topnotch staff,”
added Helwagen. “Over the two decades of his career, Kurelic has gained a
reputation as the country’s premier football recruiting analyst, specializing
in OSU Buckeyes football and for
Midwest and
Big Ten Conference recruiting.”

Kurelic
will conduct his first Bucknuts.com live chat at 1 p.m. Tuesday, July 3, 2007.

Among
serious sports fans who subscribe to independent college football Web sites
such as Bucknuts.com, there is a high demand for recruiting information.
Following the top high school stars and how they’re being courted by the nation’s
top college football programs is of paramount importance. Helwagen believes
that the most authoritative voice over the past 6-8 years has been that of Bill
Kurelic.

Kurelic
has been featured on television and radio shows across the country, and is used
as a resource by media members throughout the state of
Ohio
who consider his work to be the best available on

Ohio
State
and Big Ten recruiting.

Kurelic, a
1979 graduate of The Ohio State University, started his career as a teacher and
coach in
Texas and

Ohio. That provided a natural lead to his
interest in college recruiting and his now-20 years of experience in that
field.

In
addition to his new fulltime Bucknuts Staff position, Bill Kurelic also will
continue publishing three print publications; the Ohio Football Recruiting News
covering prep prospects in
Ohio and
Ohio
State
recruiting, the Midwest Football Recruiting News covering prospects in the
Midwest, and the Early Junior Football Recruiting News
covering juniors in the Big Ten region. He personally contacts and speaks with
the prospects to give fans the most accurate and timely information available.

Kurelic is
an
Ohio native and presently lives in the
greater

Columbus,
Ohio area with his wife and three children.