The Tennessean's Dream Team

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Thanks for the link. Good reading material. After looking at where some of the recruits are from you never hardly see a good from upper east tn. I know we have pulled a couple guys here and there in the past but there is never consistent perennial schools that produce talent. You would think that as big a school is like Science Hill or Dobyns Bennett they would have some studs playing. I dunno it baffles the hell out of me.
 
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ivtec_jrod said:
Thanks for the link. Good reading material. After looking at where some of the recruits are from you never hardly see a good from upper east tn. I know we have pulled a couple guys here and there in the past but there is never consistent perennial schools that produce talent. You would think that as big a school is like Science Hill or Dobyns Bennett they would have some studs playing. I dunno it baffles the hell out of me.
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Gerald Sensabaugh played for D-B about 8 years ago and no one outside the Tri-Cities thought much of him. He ended up being an NFL starter and setting a combine record for vertical leap. His cousin is the current running back and he'll end up playing RB or LB for a big time school. Also, there's a senior WR named Ashlon Adams that I think could contribute somewhere.
 
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ivtec_jrod said:
Thanks for the link. Good reading material. After looking at where some of the recruits are from you never hardly see a good from upper east tn. I know we have pulled a couple guys here and there in the past but there is never consistent perennial schools that produce talent. You would think that as big a school is like Science Hill or Dobyns Bennett they would have some studs playing. I dunno it baffles the hell out of me.
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Jason Witten?

But really the tri-cities has been consumed by soccer, its sad.
 
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OHvol40 said:
Jason Witten?

But really the tri-cities has been consumed by soccer, its sad.
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we played high school football together. I thought that was an obvious exemption to my prior post. Gaines played for the vols too and i think he played in the nfl. But really we have highschool football in east tennessee but very rarely is there a 4* recruit or better.
 
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ivtec_jrod said:
Thanks for the link. Good reading material. After looking at where some of the recruits are from you never hardly see a good from upper east tn. I know we have pulled a couple guys here and there in the past but there is never consistent perennial schools that produce talent. You would think that as big a school is like Science Hill or Dobyns Bennett they would have some studs playing. I dunno it baffles the hell out of me.
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Science Hill Football hasn't been much to talk about during the past decade. During two of the years I was a student there, they compiled a 1-19 record. Most of Science Hills prominent athletes focus on Basketball, where they consistantly compete for state titels, or transfer to Dobyns-Bennett to play football, like Ashlon Adams. Science Hill finished 7-4 this season and made a playoff appearance, but the jury is still out if they can become a program that can consistantly compete with a school like D-B.
 
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ivtec_jrod said:
we played high school football together. I thought that was an obvious exemption to my prior post. Gaines played for the vols too and i think he played in the nfl. But really we have highschool football in east tennessee but very rarely is there a 4* recruit or better.
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Gaines was drafted to the NFL and then went to NFL Europe. I think his team won the championship. Chris Henry was a really good wide receiver for MTSU, Patrick Ghee started for the Wake Forest team that won the ACC and is still cashing an NFL check. I have no idea what sort of star rating any of those guys had. Teddy Gaines was probably rated OK because he was really fast.
 
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Northeast Tennessee currently has 4 Active NFL players:
Jason Witten - Cowboys, Elizabethton (Tennessee)
Gerald Sensabaugh - Jaguars, Dobyns-Bennett (North Carolina)
Aubrayo Franklin - 49ers, Science Hill (Tennessee)
Vince Redd - Patriots, Elizabethton (Liberty Univ.)

Patrick Ghee from D-B was a free agent who made it thru training camp to the final 54 man roster cut with the Redskins this year and may have a chance to be picked up next year. Thru the years Dobyns-Bennett has produced 6 NFL players (plus 5 other draft picks), Elizabethon 2 NFL players ( also Shawn Witten was in a couple NFL camps as a FA), North Greene 1 NFL player, Science Hill 4 NFL Players (plus 3 other draft picks) and Tennessee High has produced 1 NFL draft pick, could be others, these are just the ones I'm aware of.
 
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My bad, it wasn't North Greene, it's South Greene, South Greene alum Mike Nease played for the Philadelphia Eagles in 1987, played college ball at UT-Chattanooga.
 
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Cloudland and Hampton are small Carter County schools, but they have some big ole boys that they produce. Cloudland is usually pretty decent, and Hampton has been pretty good lately.
 
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