While Henry put up some impressive numbers, He did it against weaker comp, in a weaker classification...seriously doubt He puts up Gore's
#s in Dade County. No slight to Polk County though.
Travis Henry scored like 6 TD's before halftime against Sebring back in the day. Everything I've ever heard about him was if he touched the ball he was scoring.
Oh yeah, Henry was a beast in HS, but He played on a lousy HS team.
IIRC, His Sr. year where He ran for like 4K, they barely cracked .500...remember one game where He ran for 350 & 5 TDs, and they still lost.
Trav to me was more of a between the tackles runner, while Gore had the total package of speed,vision, & balance.
You are either an outright liar, or completely misinformed.
Frostproof lost two games in 1995, an overtime squeaker to Sebring, and the State Championship game to a Union County team featuring 9 D-1 athletes. They beat Pahokee with both Bolden brothers in the section championship.
Travis rushed for over 3k in the regular season despite not playing much of the second half in 4 games. He rushed for over 200 yards in every game and for over 1k in the playoffs. He set a State record for yards from scrimmage in the title game loss.
I'm betting you never saw him live. He was Tennessee's all-time leading rusher despite sharing carries with Jamal Lewis and had a nice NFL career. He was also dumb as a rock and turned to drug trafficking to pay his child support.
But to try and downplay his accomplishments at the HS level is ridiculous. Ask Gerard Warren or Ronald Bolden or any of those other Pahokee defenders what they think of Travis Henry.
I had this argument with Bakas back in the day. Put Gore and Frostproof's team and he absolutely dominates, put Travis on Gables and the same would be true.