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My bad, I mis-read your post. I still remember my HS wrestling coach (Oakton) tell us we would have to do extra log rolls and suicides if we lost to "one of those nerds" whenever we wrestled you all. Good times.
Yep. Which school did you go to?
I didn't say we were a sports powerhouse. I said we weren't because we had admissions standards which made it so that we couldn't accept transfers. I think we do still give out those bumper stickers, but I haven't kept track in a long time. It's obviously tongue-in-cheek. Also, this:
You hold your tongue about Dr. Farrar. Best history teacher in academia as far as I'm concerned. Learned a ton from that dude in African American History (had Ronald Vincent Burns (the punter) and Ernest Wilford in my class) and Sports History. At the very least you had to show up and do some projects. I'd say Rocks of Jocks was way easier since Vick would only show up on test days with his "tutor" next to him and pass.
Funny story about Sports History, we were talking about Wilford's drop and some kid was spouting off about "how hard is it to catch the ball". Wilford was in the class and just about decked him. After that day, never saw the kid again.
Umm not to hate or anything, but unless things changed from when I was in HS, Jefferson isn't really known as the sporting powerhouse. Do they still give out the "I came here for the sports!" bumper stickers? Also wasn't your mascot a giant calculator?
Thanks for making these up Joe. Just ordered mine and will make sure to wear it anytime I'm around anyone from Bama... Just found out I have a gal in my Sq that must see it once it comes in!
Would that be TJHSSSS&T?
I played lacrosse against them back in the day and had a few kids on my hockey team. Good peeps.
Yeah, I remember Thigpen, but I thought there was another guy in one the 2014 or 2015 classes that has high expectations, too. I took a look at VAPreps but they didn't have a Stonewall player on their lists. Good suggestion, though.
I didn't go to Woodson. I went to Jefferson.
There's a fine line between an easy class and a major that's plain bullshit. I hope our recruits see that we don't play the game of 'non-majors' and we take our academics seriously. Not to bash Farrar, but his Sports History class was tailor made as was any other of his classes for athletes, but we're no UNC when it comes to fake classes and programs that auto pass athletes for fun.
Graduating '12 I saw our best against Michigan, man I look forward to when all our recruits come together under our new offense
Oh, gotcha. Same way Tapp was 'smaller' than other DE's.
From an ESPN report earlier today,
Out of those five schools, four of them send the most handwritten letters. And of those four, two really impressed by having multiple coaches share just how much they want him at their respective schools. And those two just happen to be his favorites.
"My top two, I'd say, is Penn State and Virginia Tech," he said Monday night.
Penn State defensive coordinator John Butler, defensive line coach Larry Johnson and recruiting coach Charles London have written to Walker -- the letters remain stored in a shoebox -- and have sat him down separately to tell him just how much he means to the Nittany Lions. Virginia Tech has done the same.
No other team has done that, Walker said. So those unique moves have stuck with him.
"When coaches come to the school, face to face, and tell you how you fit in and tell you they really want you and everything, that's had the biggest impact," Walker said. "Penn State and Virginia Tech are the only ones that have had different coaches say that, and that's important to me.
"A lot of coaches will tell you bullcrap. But when you hear it from more than one coach on the same team, it means a lot."
I read once on a LOLUVA site about Andrew Brown and how they thought that him and Nnadi would both go there and they couldn't believe that "Virginia Tech thought they even had a chance" against them. Haha lmao LOLUVA fans
It's crazy how he made extremely identical plays multiple times against the same team! haha but in all seriousness, the kid's already 6'3 as a sophomore and comes from a football family. I'm excited to see some future tape
Fake classes as GPA boosters must be really appealing to a recruit
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How do you not know which Woodson you went to? It was WT (Wilbert Tucker), the same high school that produced such greats as the original Red Power Ranger, the actual guy that Into the Wild was about, and Michael Weiss (2nd place in Figure Skating nationally). Come on.
Interesting thing about Stonewall was when RMFW was there they weren't very good. Osbourn was the cream of the crop in the district. They had Brandon Hogan, who was one of the best high school football players I ever saw. He got caught for having a gang bang with the volleyball team in the auditorium, went to WVU, got drafted by Carolina.
Also, I think Damien Thigpen is who you are thinking about the year after RMFW. I heard he was one of the guys at Tennesse that when Kiffin was hired, he said he didn't want. Ended up running track and football at UCLA.
I played at Westfield HS back in the day and try to keep up a little bit around the area. There is a lot better coaching and huge difference in facilities between the schools outside the beltway than inside also there's a lot more kids that come out to play football. TC Williams has a huge population but from what I remember they would only have like 60 kids on JV/Varsity roster. My senior year at Westfield we had right around 90 kids on JV/Varsity and believe Frosh team started off year around 100 kids.
Loudoun County and Western Fairfax County probably have the best football in Northern VA overall with Westfield, Oakton, Robinson, Chantilly, Centreville, Stonebridge, Broad Run, and Briar Woods either winning state championships or being in the title game in recent years. The 757 of course has a great number of elite athletes but Northern VA with more money has better facilities and some great coaching.
I think were at 14?
My friend he plays in one of the toughest district s in Virginia #southeastern! Which is always flooded withtatalent covering the chesapeake area of virginia.
Ha! Yeah, we got that a lot. We'd lose a lot, but when we did, we'd bust out the, "That's alright. That's ok. You're gonna work for us one day!" cheer.
We also stole all the game balls from Centreville after a game once. Had to give them back, of course. Lost that game, too. When did you go to Oakton? I had a few friends from my club team that went there.