(09-24-2018 05:46 AM)nightowl24 Wrote:  It's hard to believe that a 5'8" freshman could have a 48" vertical, but I had one(and still hold the record at my high school). Its hard to believe that a 6' guy could block a 6'10" guys shot but I did it. Its hard to believe that I'm the first grandson on either side of my family to graduate from college, but I was. It's hard to believe that i'm in a profession for 10yrs that most leave after 3-4, but i'm still in it(and love it). I made a living doing the hard to believe, so you finding it hard to believe means little to me.
You don't have to believe anything I put out there. I know talent and I don't put out a kids name unless I've seen them with my own two eyes IN PERSON. Fyi this kid won MVP of the texas top 100 fall camp. He was unranked going into the camp, he walked out with a name. Have you seen the kid play? If, not, who are you to say he's a walk on caliber kid? Kids don't ever get better huh, they just stay the same. The recruiting services miss kids and rank great players low all the time(5 kids drafted in this year's nba that weren't even ranked coming out of hs) . So you keep looking at recruiting services and I'll keep watching games and actually watching players to evaluate actual talent.
And the two football players are small school kids. Those are the kids that get overlooked because they're 2-3 hrs from the big city and are hard to get to. Many coaches find these kids a waste of time, but this is where the gems are found. Some kids don't have great stats but if you know talent you can see a kid has collegiate skills. Being that I played and have coached quite a few kids into d1 offers I can say those kids are worth looking into.

One of Bill Yeoman's UH teams went to the Cotton Bowl with more starters from AAA and smaller schools than the rest of the SWC combined. I think small schools are one place where Rice could find lots of diamonds in the rough.

And I trust Nightowl's judgement over a lot of recruiting services.