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Jassid82 said:
Bryant McKinnie was a basketball player in HS IIRC.

If Zion keeps progressing the way he has been and the way the staff hypes him up to be, then El Gammal I will be very excited to see in 2-3 years because he has the same type of athleticism and length as Zion. Now the question is, is he as physically and mentally tough? I have been very impressed with the mental toughness of Zion. Would have been EASY for him to mentally shut down after the rough start he had to the season and nobody would have faulted him for it..but he kept at it, never felt sorry for himself, kept working..and now he is improving every week.
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McKinnie played in the band. Forget which instrument so I don't know which one correlates most with OL ability.

Many of these taller guys played HS basketball. If they are 6'7" it really doesn't say much. They can just stand their flat-footed and grab a rebound

I've told the story JJ apparently told some other people. JJ went to a Pennsauken High basketball game. Starting 5 was four Black guys and Greg Mark. When Greg was sent out to jump center, Jimmy knew the kid was an athlete. This story is legend, but I believe it's true.

Mike Irving won dunking contests in HS.

Yes, basketball ability can correlate with football ability.

I do remember that David Alekna played French Horn in HS. David started on our '86 team, I think.

Chuck Todd went from HS in Miami to George Washington Univ. on a French Horn scholarship, BTW. I see no OL potential in Chuck Todd. In fact, I see no Meet the Press ability, either. I remember Lawrence Spivak. He had some gravitas.

Pretty much everything I told you above, jumping center, French Horns, McKinnie in the band, is true. I read a lot and remember a good deal of it.

EDIT: McKinnie played bass drum in the HS band.
https://www.espn.com/magazine/vol4no20mckinnie.html

And I was right about Chuck Todd.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.su...ic-schools-20180212-story.html?outputType=amp
 
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Fly1 said:
Freeman Brown....nice reference

Sadly, 90% of the people on this board have no idea who Freeman Brown is.
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Disappointed in Freeman. We thought he'd be All-World. Highly touted as I recall. His less heralded Carol City teammate Ricky Perry actually played earlier and a lot more. Ricky was a big tall guy but not as big as Friedman.

Ricky was in a situation similar to Zion in that he was thrown in there as a young player, not really ready.
 
TheMatador said:
Disappointed in Freeman. We thought he'd be All-World. Highly touted as I recall. His less heralded Carol City teammate Ricky Perry actually played earlier and a lot more. Ricky was a big tall guy but not as big as Friedman.

Ricky was in a situation similar to Zion in that he was thrown in there as a young player, not really ready.
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RIP Freeman
 
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ajone228 said:
Thanks, I'll take a O-lineman with a basketball background any day of the week. Hopefully he and Zion can be road graders together in the near future.
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We need a couple of big bodies on the basketball team as well when ACC play start..
 
Jassid82 said:
Bryant McKinnie was a basketball player in HS IIRC.

If Zion keeps progressing the way he has been and the way the staff hypes him up to be, then El Gammal I will be very excited to see in 2-3 years because he has the same type of athleticism and length as Zion. Now the question is, is he as physically and mentally tough? I have been very impressed with the mental toughness of Zion. Would have been EASY for him to mentally shut down after the rough start he had to the season and nobody would have faulted him for it..but he kept at it, never felt sorry for himself, kept working..and now he is improving every week.
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He got that NYC state of mind!!! You need to ask?
 
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