Best High School Player Seen

[feathersax]

Went to high school with Curt Watson. Thought he was the best I'd seen until seeing Albert Davis when CCHS played Alcoa in a bowl game. Curt got injured knee during that game & had to sit out. AAAACK! That makes me a geezer.

 

[RockyTopTexas]

Kyler

 

[Namorto1]

Leroy Thompson from Austin East High School in Knoxville. Almost had 6,000 yards rushing in his high school career along with 41 interceptions. Averaged about 10 yards per carry his senior year. Also a great basketball player. Went to Penn State and played 6 years in NFL.

 

[Jeff Clark]

Leroy Thompson from Austin East High School in Knoxville. Almost had 6,000 yards rushing in his high school career along with 41 interceptions. Averaged about 10 yards per carry his senior year. Also a great basketball player. Went to Penn State and played 6 years in NFL.

He was a darn good running back at Penn State was part of a great Penn State backfield with Blair Thomas.

 

[Go aeiou]

Albert Davis Sr.
Played at Alcoa, TSU, Philadelphia Eagles. High School in the 60s. Possibly 1970?

 

[NO SIR EEE]

I played against Kenny Irons and Jeff Francoeur too. Great players. We played one game against WR Sean Bailey from Milton HS and he was a human joystick. Scored maybe 4TDs that day.

What high school did you go to?

 

[NO SIR EEE]

Ah a fellow Gwinnett boy. Which school?

I played at Dacula. You?

 

[peaygolf]

I graduated from a USJ rival. And my kids go to that same school. USJ has Great athletics. And we love when we beat them. Lately we have owned them in everything but football. Now that USJ has to move up in classification they will need to recruit more.

I would assume JCS/Trinity?

 

[VolNRaleighNC]

Travis Henry, dude was unstoppable playing in central/southwest Florida.

I’m pretty sure he already had 6 kids then

 

[rgvol]

Antonio London Tullahoma high school

 

[mudhen]

Nyaji Harris

 

[rgvol]

I also got to see Tracy Hayworth Franklin Co. High

 

[Sin City Vol]

I played against Little Man in high school. I can tell you first hand how impressive he was.

My vote would go back a few years to Leroy Thompson at Austin East.

That AE team Leroy was on was loaded

 

[rgvol]

James Howse Murfreesboro Oakland Wayne and Maurice Shaw Tullahoma and from Coffee county Alontae Taylor

 

[Sin City Vol]

Billy Williams and Shannon Mitchell @ Alcoa
Danny Spradlin @ Maryville
Cobb and Helton @ Central
lots of good talent in East Tennessee back in the day

 

[Flipdaddy]

was prep editor for Alabama newspaper in early 70s. Ozzy Newsome possibly the best I ever saw play in those years

Yes, I heard he was incredible.

 

[GUNTERSVOL]

worked at Huntsville Times from 1972-75 and wife is from Gadsden. A cousin of hers once managed or owned a seafood place in Guntersville.
my younger brother and Chuck were teammates in three sports, and did Sandy Gillespie play for Lebo>. He was a pretty good QB for West and my knees were knocking every time I faced him in Little League. Three of my cousins were Bearden grads and I probably knew several of your Bearden classmates, with Kent Hollenbeck being the best basketball player I ever played with (at Mears camp) or against while at West

Small World discussion continued....... (sorry to the rest of the free world's

Do not remember Sandy but guys showed up from all over town for that training.

Arrived in Huntsville area in 80', moved to G'ville in 91' Was the seafood place Crawmama's?. I lived within walking distance. Top O' the River was the big one, but across the lake and did migrate from Gadsen area if memory holds. Favorite place to eat when we go back and visit.

Bearden was blessed with two really good players, but never great teams. Wayne Tipton's award preceded by 4 years I think Kent's at Bearden and played at LSU, at least one year with Pete, and Kent was one of those what I call passive talents. Reminded me of Spook Hendrix at UT. Was smooth and effortless and willing to step up and take the big shot or meet team needs, but I don't think he had a killer instinct. Very diligent and workman like.

In the small world category, the year Kent won state player of the year, another Fulton guy came in second in the voting, unheard of in the regionally biased voting of the day. Terry Russell stayed home and played freshmen ball at UT, had a difference of opinion with the coaching staff and departed. SOOOOOO. Long story short he completed his career with me at Belmont in the NAIA days and we actually were apartment mates for at least two years after bailing out of the dorms. We got along great which was a bit of a shock in that he was known for being kind of a no-nonsense guy and I was known as a non athlete, always nonsense guy.

 

[Mccage]

Reggie White, Bob Johnson, John Hannah, Charles Hannah, Bobby Scott, Andy Kelly, Eddie Brown, Mike Jones, Terdell Sands, Donnie Elder, David Douglas, Steve Sloan, Reggie Mathis, Eddie Moore, Edwin Lovelady.

There was another great one that signed with Vols out of Howard High School with Reggie White but he quit after the Bama game and might have been more talented then Reggie White but can't remember his name.

Charles Morgan?

 

[peaygolf]

The legend of the X-Man began in earnest in 1985 when Crawford was a 5-foot-10, 200-plus-pound sophomore terror who manned the backfield for Memphis' Trezevant High School. Crawford was, in essence, a one-man first-down machine. He averaged more than 11 yards per carry and racked up 2,330, a county mark that still stands. He would go on to set county career records for attempts (772), yards (6,784) and touchdowns (83). Scouts saw a potent mix o

f speed and power. Others saw an opportunity to prey on an easy mark.

 

[GUNTERSVOL]

I hear Guntersville Lake is haunted. Because it's full of the bodies of reporters who tried to blow the whistle on Alabama's cheating football program.

Guntersville was a map makers mistake... the river should have been the stateline, not that clean line selected. I was blessed by having a large contingent of Vols in the area. There was also a working relationship with a large portion of Auburn fans in the area due to common goals relating to Bama. That made it a bit easier to send by daughters there when it was not economically practical to send them to UT.

 

[Teeman]

I saw Big John Henderson play. Basketball, in the state tournament. He was really good in the paint and had great touch.

 

[GeorgiaVOL29]

Jeff Francoeur was by far the best I saw in person. I think he was better at football than baseball but loved baseball more. Went to school with Davey Pollack he wasn’t shabby either.

 

[realmenwearorange]

I also got to see Tracy Hayworth Franklin Co. High

He is coaching there now. I spoke with him when we played them the night before the Bama game.

 

[dyllisvol42]

Brandon Warren
Tee Higgins
BJ Coleman
I watched Bj Coleman throw for over 300 yards against a Alcoa secondary that had Randal Cobb, Kyrus Lanxter(went to Kentucky) and Brian Sommers(had a UT offer till he got in trouble) I have never seen a high school Qb throw the ball with such accuracy.

 

[Midas]

I played at Dacula. You?

I grew up in Duluth played for Duluth and Ridge before high school even though I went to Woodward. Played at Woodward early in high school before transferring to Ridge and stopped playing when I went there. I try to tell people Gwinnett football is probably the most competitive and talent rich county in the country. It’s serious from GFL all the way through high school.