’14 GA ATH Elliott Berry (UT Signee 2/5/14)

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Wilson27 said:
Yeah SV. It is surreal to read his posts and realize he isn't here anymore.
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Glad I'm not the only one feeling this way. And I though about him and his family most of the day yesterday. I just feel so awful for his wife and little children. You never think it could happen to you but for whatever reason this one really struck home with me and made me realize just fragile life is.
 
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RiseToTheTop said:
Can't really say that any of what EB said was wrong. I am born raised in GA and have lived in TN before moving back to GA. I have to say I have seen GA-TN for years now and everything Berry is saying is right on. These TN kids don't understand. Sure there are great players in TN. But GA has more of those guys per team and they see it every week. Esp in the ATL area and South GA.
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I can remember going to a McKeachern scrimmage a few years back. No comparison in the overall talent level.
 
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RiseToTheTop said:
Can't really say that any of what EB said was wrong. I am born raised in GA and have lived in TN before moving back to GA. I have to say I have seen GA-TN for years now and everything Berry is saying is right on. These TN kids don't understand. Sure there are great players in TN. But GA has more of those guys per team and they see it every week. Esp in the ATL area and South GA.
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That's really the biggest difference IMO. The top level talent is extremely comparable in both states but the number of quality athletes is where GA has a big leg up on TN. I have to say I'm very proud of the progress that TN high school football has made in the past 10 years. The strides we've made since then have been huge. We wouldn't have even been having this conversation back then.
 
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Tn. high school fball is getting much better as the population increases. Ga just has alot more elite players per team. I was watching the Ga state championship games last week on GP tv.In the Norcross game they said they had 60 seniors playing in their last game.Norcross is 5A not the highest class in Ga.Yet they still have that many. Tough to compete with those numbers year in year out.Tn high school ball is getting better just not on Ga level yet.
 
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What Creekside did to Tucker HS in the state championship game was unbelievable. Tucker is a HS dynasty in the Atlanta area and Creekside made them bow down, and they did it in style
 
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Wilson27 said:
Wow, I'm honored that I could make RR laugh. I was just driving to town thinking about him and how strange to not really even have known him but not being able to get his death off my mind. Strange world this age of communication has given us.
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Wow, didn't even realize RR had the last post in the thread before I bumped it. Deff seemed like a great guy and great family man.
 
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Elliott telling some of the Knox Fulton Guys that his Creekside team would beat any team in Tennessee by 21 including Fulton.. Agree?? Disagree?
 

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Wilson27 said:
Wow, I'm honored that I could make RR laugh. I was just driving to town thinking about him and how strange to not really even have known him but not being able to get his death off my mind. Strange world this age of communication has given us.
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I have been feeling this way too. Just thinking about his family. I don't know them at all but they have been on my mind all day. I really don't understand God's plan sometimes but I really have stopped trying. I just hope He will grant them peace.
 
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touch44 said:
Elliott telling some of the Knox Fulton Guys that his Creekside team would beat any team in Tennessee by 21 including Fulton.. Agree?? Disagree?
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Things have changed a great deal since my HS playing days, but I did have the unique experience of playing ball in both GA and TN back in the 1990s. I was born and raised in TN, but lived in the Calhoun/Rome, GA for 2 years during high school. I was your typical East TN LB in those days (undersized, shifty and quick but not all that fast).

I went down to GA that first year and wound up playing against guys like Quincy Carter (who went on to play a year of minor league ball before going to UGA), and a RB by the name of Jamal that went on to have a pretty solid freshman season playing for the Big Orange. The 2nd year I was playing in GA, we played 2A Cartersville to start the season. We were getting diced up by this 9th grade RB starting his first year. I got plowed over and went back to the huddle and asked "Where the (expletive that starts with an "F") did this kid come from?

They shrugged their shoulders as they were having no more success with him then I did. This 9th or 10th grader starting his first games went by the name of Ronnie Brown (yes, the Ronnie Brown that rushed for over 2000 at Auburn and then was a 1st or 2nd round Draft pick in the NFL). He replaced a guy named Carlton Bexley, who had signed with Arkansas the previous spring.

Those guys were all over the place, even in lower division ranks. Not all were as successful, but a lot at least committed to major programs coming out of the area.
 
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