My boy was talking to some of the kids on AH today. None of them think he will be focusing on football at all moving forward in college. He's really serious about track. Rightfully so.
As for my thoughts. Not that high on him. Yes, he's fast. I've been to AH games before, he's extremely raw as a WR. Didn't really stand out each time either. He has a ways to go and things you can't teach for sure though. I've seen a lot of fast kid who are not good at football. Not saying he's bad but he was not the heart of that offense and he needs work on his hands and route running a lot. There's more to being a WR than just being fast.
Then again there was the Saga of " Bullet Bob Hayes "...Only took two years of playing in the NFL to notice safety's moving back an additional five yards as he still blew by them..
Then there was the saga of Frank Budd who might have been the world's fastest himan before Bob Hayes and couldn't do squat on the football field. I remember sitting in a newly-built RFK Stadium in D.C. (not called RFK yet, only renamed that I think after Bobby Kennedy's assassination in 1968) and watching a Bears-Redskins exhibition game. That would have been August, 1963. (I was there to see my main man, Redskin fullback Don Bosseler and the greatest UM player of the 1950's). Budd could never become a football player. So, I know the syndrome. This kid, at least, has garnered some attention as a football player. I stand corrected on my comments in another thread if he's not really somebody we want to recruit because of lack of football skills. Who was the future Olympic sprinter from the Tampa area who spurned us for UF. I think he was Jerome Brown's cousin. Didn't really do much in football at UF and perhaps did a bit more at the Olympics.
I leave it all up to the coaches. We'd spend four years waiting for the kid to break out and the fans would be complaining. He'd be miserable at UM. We recruited a fast kid from D.C. in the '80's, Robert Thomas, and he spent about a year with the football team and dropped it for track. The late Tory Mitchell was fast as anyone we ever recruited and he bolted for Texas Tech after a year. Some of these track guys might be a bit flaky, after all.
Come to think of it....is Chise the track guy who was always questionning Jammi German's manhood on Grassy?....I think he said he was.
Yes, flaky.
