I'm not sure on the specifics about Mottla, but just from being a Cretin guy, i'll tell you what I know. I know he wasn't heavily recruited by any BCS conference schools (and specifically other Big 10 schools). He was the type of kid who was either going to go to an Ivy League school or walk on in the Big 10 and he decided to stay home. He probably didn't get a ton of attention because he was a bit smallish his SR season of HS, he was like 6'2" 255lbs, but he was a really good football player at CDH and i'm not surprised that he has worked hard enough to make himself into a legitimate Big 10 football player.