You can thank redistricting for that. Seminola and especially where I'm from, the western part of Brown Sub/Gladeview(everything between north of SR112 and NW 71st St. and 27th to 35th Ave.(The Tree Bar)) is responsible for 99.9% of the talent that comes through Springs. From cats like Freddie Miles and Lomas Brown in my ol' girl's era, Orpheus Roye in the time right before mine, to Willis and Nuke(was there for a week but definitely his home school), down to T.Y. Hilton, the current perennial Pro Bowler from around my way...
Basically, dude was the prototype for the Shaun Shivers/Johnny Ford types. **** shame he had to go 1-AA. Guys like them have him and others like him to thank. Major schools couldn't keep ignoring the little guy who does nothing but kick the *** of the greatest competition in America. He might not have been built for 25+ carries a game, but Kinsey coulda been a WEAPON for ANY P5 in the country...
Was it the CC game? That's the one time I saw him live and I walked away flummoxed by what I'd witnessed. That CC defense was filthy(Zo and Jeanty were the best DL in the county although overrated *** Willie Jones got all the pub) and he gashed the **** outta them. They woulda pulled off the upset if he hadn't started cramping.
I didnt know them like that. I just have a strange memory. Literally everytime I saw my homeboy that way they'd try to do the whole come to school here speil. Yeash was a strange dude.
Iowa boy. Just lived for his baseball. Found it pretty cool you knew who they were. That school helped me in a transition in life so I'm kind of biased.
What year did you graduate from springs? I was 1994. Team was insanely good that year. Royce was there my freshman year but I remember him and I used to play b-ball versus TY years later..... he didn’t play football till about junior year. Was a shooting guard making a ton of 3s till then
Jose Rodriguez
Dutch never even came close to 1000
I never went there and I'm waaay younger than you. You were there with a lotta cats from the hood I looked up to. That's the home school for my neighborhood. I went to Springs Middle but my mom would've rather die in a grease fire than let me go there(Personal beef with Dr. Bales). I grew up one block over from Rufus Smith who played on the '94 team. That team had the best defense I ever saw on the HS level. Held the Davis Bros. and the Ridge to 14 points when they lost in the Semis. They turned around and dropped 69 in the championship game. If you played b-ball you probably remember my godbrother O'Neil from The Bahamas and Cedric Rahmings(he stayed on Rufus' block too).
I just remember some lil Spanish kid being pretty good. Is that dutch
Not either of those, it was a few years after I graduated so wasn’t anyone I ever went to school with so can’t loo
were they early 90s? Neither ring a bell
An OG Legend from around the way. Moms grew up with him and his wife Mrs. Delores. Straight from 55th & 31st. I found out he was from the hood when he made the speech when Mike Utley was paralyzed. I was reading the sports section of the Herald and he was on the front page. My mom comes outta the kitchen like, "Look at Lomas". I knew she wasn't a football fan let alone a Lions fan, so I was like how the heck do you know who that is.
