header pic

Perhaps the BEST B1G Forum anywhere, here at College Football Fan Site, CFB51!!!

The 'Old' CFN/Scout Crowd- Enjoy Civil discussion, game analytics, in depth player and coaching 'takes' and discussing topics surrounding the game. You can even have your own free board, all you have to do is ask!!!

Anyone is welcomed and encouraged to join our FREE site and to take part in our community- a community with you- the user, the fan, -and the person- will be protected from intrusive actions and with a clean place to interact.


« previous next »
Pages: 1 [2] 3 4 ... 7   Go Down
Author

Topic: You as a high school athlete

 (Read 16961 times)

FearlessF

  • Hall of Fame
  • *****
  • Posts: 45607
  • Liked:
Re: You as a high school athlete
« Reply #14 on: February 10, 2018, 11:17:11 PM »
Logged
"Courage; Generosity; Fairness; Honor; In these are the true awards of manly sport."

MrNubbz

  • Hall of Fame
  • *****
  • Default Avatar
  • Posts: 20000
  • Liked:
Re: You as a high school athlete
« Reply #15 on: February 10, 2018, 11:28:31 PM »
Quote from: FearlessF on February 10, 2018, 03:46:28 PM
soccer wasn't a sport in the 70s
what year did Pele wake up the USA?
High School I went to won a State soccer title in '77.Then again a few years later,runner up a couple of times.Didn't Pele play in the mid '70's for the New York Cosmos or sum such?I played CB & Wingback in HS.Beginning of our SR season a buddy, 2 chicks & I got caught by Rangers partying.We were in this woods in a metro park area.He had some hippy lettuce and I a couple of Tall Boys.We got in trouble,didn't get laid and got tossed off the football team  :wtf: Should have played base ball that's 3 strikes right there
Logged
"Let us endeavor so to live - that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry." - Mark Twain

MarqHusker

  • Team Captain
  • *******
  • Default Avatar
  • Posts: 6038
  • Liked:
Re: You as a high school athlete
« Reply #16 on: February 11, 2018, 12:30:08 AM »
I lettered in golf a couple seasons,  and was the only Sr. With four much better teammates as Fr or So.  I kept them in line even though they were the ones shooting 37s.

I was a TE, on a fball team that maybe passed 8 times a game.  My only plus skill was as a long snapper in football. We actually had a killer punt team.  All conference punter easy.  I am proud to say I never had a bad snap in 4 years.  I thought about playing if I attended a DIII school, as at 6ft 1 and 145lbs, that wasn't going to get it done as a walk on at N.  Back then it wasn't hard to get a walk on try out. I still have my letter from then asst.coach Solich.

True story, I attended a N football camp before my sr.year and that's when you realize how pedestrian your athleticism is compared to actual DI athletes.  You do all the same tests and drills and earn a score and you can compare it to the actual players.  It's sobering. A young  Ahman Green among others was at that camp.
Logged

OrangeAfroMan

  • Stats Porn
  • Hall of Fame
  • *****
  • Posts: 21791
  • Liked:
Re: You as a high school athlete
« Reply #17 on: February 11, 2018, 05:06:00 AM »
Marq, that reminds me, I did the same thing at UF.  Went to a camp thing - I don't think it was like the ones they do now, where it's all top-level guys, but there were definitely some of those guys mixed in back when I went.  

I was no prospect at all, but was technically very good - great fundamentally and all that.  I did all the drills well, did them correctly, but then you see this guy or that guy and you just think, "oh, so that's what a D-1 guy with offers is like."   And it's not even close - they're just on this other plane of size and ability.

Some of my teammates were amazing, especially on defense.  We had like 6 shutouts my SR year and a few of those guys were truly amazing players.  I think only one of them maybe played for a season at Valdosta St, something like that.  It's crazy - the baseline talent, even at places like a Kentucky or a Purdue is actually so high when compared to the rest of us.
Logged
“The Swamp is where Gators live.  We feel comfortable there, but we hope our opponents feel tentative. A swamp is hot and sticky and can be dangerous." - Steve Spurrier

medinabuckeye1

  • Hall of Fame
  • *****
  • Default Avatar
  • Posts: 10643
  • Liked:
Re: You as a high school athlete
« Reply #18 on: February 11, 2018, 07:51:54 AM »
Quote from: OrangeAfroMan on February 11, 2018, 05:06:00 AM
Marq, that reminds me, I did the same thing at UF.  Went to a camp thing - I don't think it was like the ones they do now, where it's all top-level guys, but there were definitely some of those guys mixed in back when I went.  

I was no prospect at all, but was technically very good - great fundamentally and all that.  I did all the drills well, did them correctly, but then you see this guy or that guy and you just think, "oh, so that's what a D-1 guy with offers is like."   And it's not even close - they're just on this other plane of size and ability.

Some of my teammates were amazing, especially on defense.  We had like 6 shutouts my SR year and a few of those guys were truly amazing players.  I think only one of them maybe played for a season at Valdosta St, something like that.  It's crazy - the baseline talent, even at places like a Kentucky or a Purdue is actually so high when compared to the rest of us.
It is amazing and yet, I believe that it is a relatively recent phenomenon.  I've mentioned this on here before, but I have watched a DVD of Ohio State's #1 vs #2 win over OJ Simpson's USC team in the 1969 Rosebowl (1968 season).  The thing that amazed me the most when watching was that, for the most part, the players were normal sized people.  Back then they had ~200lb linemen, linebackers shorter than me (I'm 6-2), etc.  
Skill and speed/size are two different things.  I'm sure those late 60's players had plenty of skill but if they were transported through time and had to face off against a modern team they'd get spanked.  Those teams were #1 and #2, defending NC and about to be NC PAC and BigTen Champs and yet if they played Valdosta State tomorrow I'd put my money on Valdosta simply because, even without looking, I'm sure that Valdosta is bigger and faster at every position.  
Logged

medinabuckeye1

  • Hall of Fame
  • *****
  • Default Avatar
  • Posts: 10643
  • Liked:
Re: You as a high school athlete
« Reply #19 on: February 11, 2018, 07:55:11 AM »
As for me, I was an all-conference lawnmower, LoL.  I started a mowing business when I was 8 and by the time I was in HS I was mowing 50+ lawns a week.  I loved football and looking back I wish I had played.  I don't think I'd have been great but I'd have a better understanding of the game if I had the experience of playing it, but I don't.  I considered myself to be too busy.  

Looking back I was "richer" then than at any point since in my life.  By my Senior year I was mowing around 75 lawns and probably making around $20k.  That may not sound like much but when you are in HS, living with parents, and eating parent's food, etc it is a LOT.  
Logged

FearlessF

  • Hall of Fame
  • *****
  • Posts: 45607
  • Liked:
Re: You as a high school athlete
« Reply #20 on: February 11, 2018, 09:06:13 AM »
hah, I was a stand out mower as well in Jr high and high school.  20 lawns in a town of 350, plus the city park

first lawn I mowed for $$ back in the early 70s as maybe 9-10 years old paid $3.25

instead of football my senior season I had a job as a pump jockey at a gas station - great job

started in 1980 as a junior - gas was $1.17/gal

folks were outraged!  saw bullet holes in the tank trucks that delivered gas to the station - employees were warned about possible terrorist actions
Logged
"Courage; Generosity; Fairness; Honor; In these are the true awards of manly sport."

Honestbuckeye

  • Team Captain
  • *******
  • Posts: 6921
  • Liked:
Re: You as a high school athlete
« Reply #21 on: February 11, 2018, 09:27:14 AM »
Wow . The good old days lol.   Had hair and metabolism back then.

Played at a class A (back then was only 4 classes, A for big schools then B,C, and D).

Started as the left corner on varsity as a junior ( all QBs were right handed).  Was pretty skinny at 6’1 170 ( now 6’3 240) but was fast and had good hands. I believe my record for picks in one season still stands nearly 40 years later.

Also started on varsity b-ball, but not because I was particularly good, more because I hustled my ass off on D and could shoot from the outside.  

Did a lot of intramural and rec league playing after that, and youth football coaching.

Schemes were fairly simple then.  Defense was typically 5-3 or 5-2-4 depending on the team and situation.  

Now just an armchair QB who loves to learn what they are doing scheme wise.

That’s why I like CFB so much....so many different schemes and philosophies.  
Logged
Get your facts first, then you can distort them as you please.
-Mark Twain

MrNubbz

  • Hall of Fame
  • *****
  • Default Avatar
  • Posts: 20000
  • Liked:
Re: You as a high school athlete
« Reply #22 on: February 11, 2018, 12:33:24 PM »
Quote from: medinabuckeye1 on February 11, 2018, 07:51:54 AM
Those teams were #1 and #2, defending NC and about to be NC PAC and BigTen Champs and yet if they played Valdosta State tomorrow I'd put my money on Valdosta simply because, even without looking, I'm sure that Valdosta is bigger and faster at every position.  
I get your point but guys like Tatum,Stillwagon,Simpson give me pause to ponder.Simpson or Tatum could play in any era regardless of the P.O.S.'s they apparently were
Logged
"Let us endeavor so to live - that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry." - Mark Twain

MrNubbz

  • Hall of Fame
  • *****
  • Default Avatar
  • Posts: 20000
  • Liked:
Re: You as a high school athlete
« Reply #23 on: February 11, 2018, 12:46:50 PM »
Quote from: medinabuckeye1 on February 11, 2018, 07:55:11 AM
Looking back I was "richer" then than at any point since in my life.  By my Senior year I was mowing around 75 lawns and probably making around $20k.  That may not sound like much but when you are in HS, living with parents, and eating parent's food, etc it is a LOT.  
Good God man you have to be shyting me.Did you have a mower deck rigged to an F-150?That's some serious hustle right there.Thats a lot of coin also considering you made it yourself and wasn't daddy's allowance.Prolly could have pulled it off myself if it wasn't for sports or other teen age pursuits 
Logged
"Let us endeavor so to live - that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry." - Mark Twain

FearlessF

  • Hall of Fame
  • *****
  • Posts: 45607
  • Liked:
Re: You as a high school athlete
« Reply #24 on: February 11, 2018, 01:00:41 PM »
I could have been mowin 50 lawns in the small town, but I had two friends that were competing

I was busy enough with 20, especially when rain/weather caused things to back up 
Logged
"Courage; Generosity; Fairness; Honor; In these are the true awards of manly sport."

ELA

  • Global Moderator
  • Hall of Fame
  • *****
  • Posts: 22875
  • Liked:
Re: You as a high school athlete
« Reply #25 on: February 11, 2018, 03:18:50 PM »
I enjoyed soccer and football more, but tennis was my best sport, so I stuck with that.

Problem was my HS was loaded.  The way the MI state tourney worked was you took your four singles and four doubles teams.  12 man roster.  State tourney was then 8 tourneys when each of your singles and doubles team competing individually.  Then you got points as a team based on how you did in each one.  Both my junior and senior years, not only did we win states, we won all 8 tourneys both years.  So I was an alternate, and sometimes rotated in.  When we'd scrimmage literally any other school, I was good enough to be top 2 anywhere else.  I wasn't top 12 at my school.  Still, we were so loaded, we had plenty of scouts always on hand.  I had a lot of D3 interest, most seriously from Wabash College in Indiana, who actually recruited me pretty relentlessly.  I had zero desire to go to a small school, so it was a non-starter.
Logged

medinabuckeye1

  • Hall of Fame
  • *****
  • Default Avatar
  • Posts: 10643
  • Liked:
Re: You as a high school athlete
« Reply #26 on: February 11, 2018, 05:13:21 PM »
Quote from: MrNubbz on February 11, 2018, 12:46:50 PM
Good God man you have to be shyting me.Did you have a mower deck rigged to an F-150?That's some serious hustle right there.Thats a lot of coin also considering you made it yourself and wasn't daddy's allowance.Prolly could have pulled it off myself if it wasn't for sports or other teen age pursuits
Not quite on an F150, but I had two of the 4' commercial walk-behind mowers. I sometimes hired friends. With that mower I can do a standard city lot (with trimming, and clearing grass clippings off the walks and drive with the backpack blower) in under half an hour.
Logged

Brutus Buckeye

  • Hall of Fame
  • *****
  • Posts: 12093
  • Liked:
Re: You as a high school athlete
« Reply #27 on: February 11, 2018, 05:18:27 PM »
Quote from: ELA on February 11, 2018, 03:18:50 PM
 Still, we were so loaded, we had plenty of scouts always on hand.  I had a lot of D3 interest, most seriously from Wabash College in Indiana, who actually recruited me pretty relentlessly.  I had zero desire to go to a small school, so it was a non-starter.
Wabash is an all boys school, no? 
Logged
Pages: 1 [2] 3 4 ... 7   Go Up
« previous next »
 
Support the Site!
Purchase of every item listed here DIRECTLY supports the site.
Custom Candied Sign

Custom Bronco Badges