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  1. TheMatador

    SoFla recruiting old-heads, what happened here?

    You're right. I have no clue. I didn't play major Div-1 ball, so I wouldn't have been exposed to what you were. In fact, at my age, most public high schools were still segregated so there were kids whose parents were of modest means, but they were white. I knew of nobody whose living...
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    SoFla recruiting old-heads, what happened here?

    Had seen the phrase Ma or mama dukes before but never paid it much attention. This time I looked up its meaning. As a middle-class white guy it's not something I would necessarily know. If this kid has no adults to be there for him, and his ma dukes doesn't give him any support, the kid must...
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    SoFla recruiting old-heads, what happened here?

    I remember him playing LB in HS highlights but he didn't look like a college LB. He's a lineman all the way. Don't really understand/remember the Bailey recruitment but Bailey was not a typical Georgia kid. He lived on the offshore islands. Stayed with his coach's family during the week...
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    SoFla recruiting old-heads, what happened here?

    No. Was UM's Eddie Brown nicknamed Downtown? I remember his teammates called him Fast Eddie Brown.
  5. TheMatador

    SoFla recruiting old-heads, what happened here?

    I don't think that's the Eddie Brown who was a Miami star in the mid-'80's. I have seen the name attached to a Miami guy, also a wide receiver, but not the kind of talent that played for our first NC team and later played for the Bengals. I haven't lived in South Florida for decades, and I am...
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