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14 minutes ago, texifornia said:

And Devine. Austin was the other one that was slipping my mind. Incredibly fun group of athletes there.

Might’ve been the offense they ran too. Stedman Bailey ram a 4.5 but looked faster

I saw Quan Cosby in person his junior year absolutely destroy Boyd in the state championship game. I was young but I was convinced he was the next Mike Vick. He also played safety and sent 2 different Boyd wrs out of the game on a stretcher

Percy Harvin was pretty disgusting. 

3 hours ago, cmontexas said:

I saw Quan Cosby in person his junior year absolutely destroy Boyd in the state championship game. I was young but I was convinced he was the next Mike Vick. He also played safety and sent 2 different Boyd wrs out of the game on a stretcher

I remember reading the recaps of his games on the Hornfans recruiting forum. Hell, maybe it was GoBig12, I don’t know. But they were as covered in dramatic hyperbole as any that have ever been produced. William Wallace hasn’t been as glorified. 

Then I read that he was short, playing 2A and probably getting drafted by MLB. “Well, cross him off the list, then.” Then that dude showed up years later and was a God send for the program. Perhaps the stories were all true. Would like to have seen him, in hindsight.  

24 minutes ago, closetojumping said:

I remember reading the recaps of his games on the Hornfans recruiting forum. Hell, maybe it was GoBig12, I don’t know. But they were as covered in dramatic hyperbole as any that have ever been produced. William Wallace hasn’t been as glorified. 

Then I read that he was short, playing 2A and probably getting drafted by MLB. “Well, cross him off the list, then.” Then that dude showed up years later and was a God send for the program. Perhaps the stories were all true. Would like to have seen him, in hindsight.  

Probably hornfans. I remember the same and was never on gobig12. 

Jamaal Charles was insane (duh) in High School.  And not the typical track star where they pitch it to him on a sweep and they go to the sideline and just out run everyone. 

Between the tackles run plays in traffic that became 70 yard touchdowns regularly. 

They had a Saturday afternoon game on a hot humid day on a soggy field against a Westfield team with D1 players and he went for 400 yards and 5 TD’s. 
 

Quick Google search turned this up:
 

 

 

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Yeah Quan Cosby against 2A competition was unfair. That's a good one. IIRC his brother was a damn good 2A player, too, and the two of them basically never left the field.

Don’t know why I remember this stat, but his senior year Quan Cosby returned 14 punts and took 7 of them back for touchdowns. I know it’s 2A, but that’s insane…which is probably why that stat has stayed with me.

Watching Jordan Shipley play against 1A competition at Rotan his freshman year was wild. There was a game he scored from every position possible. At the time it hadn’t been done since Sammy Baugh at Sweetwater.

Tavon Austin had one of the best High school highlights I ever seen 


But since I played DB in school I loved Cody Riggs from St.Thomas Aquinas highlights 

 

1 hour ago, tokamak said:

Yeah Quan Cosby against 2A competition was unfair. That's a good one. IIRC his brother was a damn good 2A player, too, and the two of them basically never left the field.

That team also had All Big 12 Baylor LB John Garret at fullback/MLB/kick returner

Saw Edorian McCullough play Plano in the Playoffs, hands down the fastest player I've ever seen play. He was a missile playing safety against Plano's option.

Someone on this site or old site likened HS Jadeveon Clowney to Teen Wolf - always stuck with me and was just reaffirmed watching his highlight reel.

12 hours ago, tokamak said:

Yeah Quan Cosby against 2A competition was unfair. That's a good one. IIRC his brother was a damn good 2A player, too, and the two of them basically never left the field.

He dominated every sport he played. He is legitimately one of the best Texas high school athletes of all time. 

Before HUDL,

Orenthal James Simpson (say what you want, best RB ever.) ,Tony Dorsett, Joe Washingtom "Smoke through a key hole", previously mentioned Earl, Billy Sims (people arrived at his HS games at 4:00 to get a seat), Emmitt Smith, Eric Metcalf, John Elway, Dan Marino, Lawrence Taylor.

The Sunday Paper used to have a Parade circular in it; their "Faces in the Crowd" highlighted a few noteworthy HS athletes (see above). Sports Illustrated was a great magazine back in the day.

Cory Redding was a man child. They asked a HS recruit if was going to tell him to go to Texas. His response, and I'm paraphrasing here. "I'm not telling him shit! That's a full grown man over there! He scares me."

Tommy Kramer was the first NFL QB I saw play in HS. First time I ever saw someone through a football like that.

On 4/11/2025 at 11:42 AM, Get ln My Van said:

I remember thinking Lache Seastrunk would be a HOFer lol

Aunt Jen sock confirmed 

Best high school player I ever seen.

Jorvorskie Lane.  Just fucking dominant.  Don't think of the aggy Lane, but in high school he was just a badass motherfucker.  Punted too.

Wouldn't call it the best-ever tape/film, but some kid from Sealy had a few highlights in crunch time. 

 

When you mix in football and basketball Iverson was up there!

On 4/11/2025 at 2:30 PM, closetojumping said:

He literally threw our center at our QB for a sack/fumble. I’ve told the story many times, but I’ve never seen anything like it. 

How do you leave out the part that he literally made the center cry?  That's the best part of the story.

On 4/13/2025 at 10:42 AM, PTINS said:

Before HUDL,

Orenthal James Simpson (say what you want, best RB ever.) ,Tony Dorsett, Joe Washingtom "Smoke through a key hole", previously mentioned Earl, Billy Sims (people arrived at his HS games at 4:00 to get a seat), Emmitt Smith, Eric Metcalf, John Elway, Dan Marino, Lawrence Taylor.

The Sunday Paper used to have a Parade circular in it; their "Faces in the Crowd" highlighted a few noteworthy HS athletes (see above). Sports Illustrated was a great magazine back in the day.

Cory Redding was a man child. They asked a HS recruit if was going to tell him to go to Texas. His response, and I'm paraphrasing here. "I'm not telling him shit! That's a full grown man over there! He scares me."

Tommy Kramer was the first NFL QB I saw play in HS. First time I ever saw someone through a football like that.

michael GIF

Before hudl?? Half what you mentioned was before color TV

A friend of mine has the best high school tape of all time. It’s a VHS tape of the highlights of the James Madison High School quarterback from 2001. 

On 4/11/2025 at 11:41 AM, Dennis Taylor said:

Derrick Henry highlights are the epitome of a grown ass man playing against children 

 

 

I wonder if they'll think he is/was good enough to be enshrined in the HOF? Dude is a freak. 

On 4/12/2025 at 10:37 PM, Degenerate Gardner said:

Traci Lords

Scroll scroll scroll - dammit

I still have my *Recruits in Review VHS tape if VY's class.  Iirc, there was someone in that TX class who had tape as sick as Vince's.  Now I've got to go find it.

*I think that's what it was called.  

2 hours ago, Wishbone said:

A friend of mine has the best high school tape of all time. It’s a VHS tape of the highlights of the James Madison High School quarterback from 2001. 

My buddy coached at Hightower and Vince blew them out in the 4th round that year. My buddy said not considering grades that Hightower had 8 D1 level defensive guys and Vince had a pair of 50+yd td runs where my buddy said "We wouldn't have gotten him down if it was touch football " 

2 hours ago, Knoxtnhorn said:

I still have my *Recruits in Review VHS tape if VY's class.  Iirc, there was someone in that TX class who had tape as sick as Vince's.  Now I've got to go find it.

*I think that's what it was called.  

Did he go to Lufkin? - Aggie probably 

10 hours ago, BurntOrange&White said:

Did he go to Lufkin? - Aggie probably 

No.  The videos consisted of film from UT's incoming class each year.  I just looked it up.  I think he was mentioned above - Mike Williams.

  • 2 weeks later...

This isn't the answer, but watching the extremely talented from small town schools is always fun. 

I have family from the area and they turned me onto Koi Perich when he was a junior.  Sstarted as an interesting 3 star kid from BFE northern Minnesota.  Then he got a little hype and the recruiting services bumped, and then just kept bumping him until he was the MVP of Army game and top 5 at his position.  Then he made 2nd Team All American as a true freshman this last year despite barely playing for Minnesota the first 4 or 5 games.  His hudl was like a grown man picking on children.

 

https://www.hudl.com/video/3/15189064/6554f6b0688fb60a10cfd69e

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