Colquitt County WR Narrows His Target School List To Eight

[HawgGoneIt]

 

Offer list includes most every school that's anybody. 

He's also recently tweeted and expressed interest in HBCU offers as I don't think any have gotten on his train yet. 

 

Exciting receiver and a solid kid all around.

Between he and Landen Thomas, Colquitt should have quite a one-two punch down the sideline and across the middle... Would be cool to see them both end up at the same university.

 

[FreeBird]

16 minutes ago, HawgGoneIt said:

 

Offer list includes most every school that's anybody. 

He's also recently tweeted and expressed interest in HBCU offers as I don't think any have gotten on his train yet. 

 

Exciting receiver and a solid kid all around.

Between he and Landen Thomas, Colquitt should have quite a one-two punch down the sideline and across the middle... Would be cool to see them both end up at the same university.

 

24 class seems to be legit but why not mention Jaden? He’s gotta be good if he’s going on visits to Georgia 

[Rufus69]

21 minutes ago, HawgGoneIt said:

 

Offer list includes most every school that's anybody. 

He's also recently tweeted and expressed interest in HBCU offers as I don't think any have gotten on his train yet. 

 

Exciting receiver and a solid kid all around.

Between he and Landen Thomas, Colquitt should have quite a one-two punch down the sideline and across the middle... Would be cool to see them both end up at the same university.

 

I think we got some Luttrell kid that's supposed to be talented as well.

Carr, Thomas, Luttrell, Griffin and Fowler....not bad.

If they only had somebody to throw it to them.

(Smile)

 

 

Rufus>>

[FreeBird]

2 minutes ago, Rufus69 said:

I think we got some Luttrell kid that's supposed to be talented as well.

Carr, Thomas, Luttrell, Griffin and Fowler....not bad.

If they only had somebody to throw it to them.

(Smile)

 

 

Rufus>>

To bad colquitt ain’t got no room on staff to offer Some big OLine dad’s coaching positions 😌😌

[HawgGoneIt]

4 hours ago, FreeBird said:

24 class seems to be legit but why not mention Jaden? He’s gotta be good if he’s going on visits to Georgia 

I love Jaden. He's a great kid and receiver as well. Give a brother time to mention then organically in the discussion. 

 

I hope we can piece together a decent line to protect the QB and give him time to get these playmakers the ball. 

[HawgGoneIt]

3 hours ago, FreeBird said:

To bad colquitt ain’t got no room on staff to offer Some big OLine dad’s coaching positions 😌😌

I think our line will be good enough, but, I'm certainly a little concerned in that area. 

[FreeBird]

2 minutes ago, HawgGoneIt said:

I think our line will be good enough, but, I'm certainly a little concerned in that area. 

I mean your skill guys are reeling in D1 offers but does any of your lineman hold any D1 offers? I feel like I haven’t heard any stud OLineman in years, it’s always RBs TEs kicker LB Wrs CB

[FreeBird]

Just now, FreeBird said:

I but does any of your lineman hold any D1 offers? I feel like I haven’t heard any stud OLineman in years, it’s always RBs TEs kicker LB Wrs CB

Am I wrong?

[HawgGoneIt]

11 minutes ago, FreeBird said:

I mean your skill guys are reeling in D1 offers but does any of your lineman hold any D1 offers? I feel like I haven’t heard any stud OLineman in years, it’s always RBs TEs kicker LB Wrs CB

This is true. 

We just graduated a Palmore kid that I felt like had Joey Bennett and Rush still been here, would have been at a big school and potential NFL. Reminded me a lot of Cam Erving. Feel like it was a wasted talent under developed under Rogers. 

[HawgGoneIt]

I think we have some big kids in our hallways, but, they didn't want to play under the last guy.

I'm hoping the hype and excitement around having Coach Calhoun here along with a good many ex-players turned coach, and a pretty good rest of the coaching staff, those kids will decide now is the right time to get on board. 

That is the missing piece we need to return to the championship game. 

[Rufus69]

14 hours ago, HawgGoneIt said:

I think we have some big kids in our hallways, but, they didn't want to play under the last guy.

I'm hoping the hype and excitement around having Coach Calhoun here along with a good many ex-players turned coach, and a pretty good rest of the coaching staff, those kids will decide now is the right time to get on board. 

That is the missing piece we need to return to the championship game. 

It's the same story every year.  The Colquitt O-Line coach has to mold his group into a cohesive unit.  Joey Bennett was the best coach we've had in that area.  I hope Bryce can provide similar results...but I'll be honest...I think it's a wait and see proposition.

I'm not sure how many high schools can boast a ton of D1 O-Linemen.  Some definitely are better than others but in my opine...O-Linemen are developed in college.  Sure...the basics hafta be there...but it's hard to foresee true success in high school.  Spring practice is approaching so we should start hearing everything that's wrong on the GAVSV real soon.

Any way you cut it...Region play is everything.  It sets the table for the playoffs and hopefully we'll be good enough to get the best seeding we can in order to give us a realistic chance at grabbing a crown.  Can you believe that the Valdosta game is back to actually meaning something?

 

 

Rufus>>

[FreeBird]

27 minutes ago, Rufus69 said:

 

I'm not sure how many high schools can boast a ton of D1 O-Linemen.  Some definitely are better than others but in my opine...O-Linemen are developed in college.  Sure...the basics hafta be there...but it's hard to foresee true success in high school.  Spring practice is approaching so we should start hearing everything that's wrong on the GAVSV real soon.

Any way you cut it...Region play is everything.  It sets the table for the playoffs and hopefully we'll be good enough to get the best seeding we can in order to give us a realistic chance at grabbing a crown.  Can you believe that the Valdosta game is back to actually meaning something?

 

 

Rufus>>

Plenty , you don’t need to be developed to be a good HS OLineman , go to schools in Florida or by Houston Baton Rouge , Let me ask you how tall and heavy is the Oline gonna be who’s the biggest kid, anyone over 6’3 6’4 6’5?

[67packer]

On 4/3/2022 at 9:43 AM, FreeBird said:

To bad colquitt ain’t got no room on staff to offer Some big OLine dad’s coaching positions 😌😌

I think we could make room if the opportunity existed.

[Rufus69]

1 hour ago, FreeBird said:

Plenty , you don’t need to be developed to be a good HS OLineman , go to schools in Florida or by Houston Baton Rouge , Let me ask you how tall and heavy is the Oline gonna be who’s the biggest kid, anyone over 6’3 6’4 6’5?

As usual...you're off the mark.  Big does not mean better in high school.  Quite a few O-Line coaches prefer shorter WIDE BODY linemen due to the limitations of their QB's height.  D-Line is totally different...but power, speed and agility is what matters on the O-Line.

And being SMART doesn't hurt.....

 

 

Rufus>>

[HawgGoneIt]

3 hours ago, Rufus69 said:

It's the same story every year.  The Colquitt O-Line coach has to mold his group into a cohesive unit.  Joey Bennett was the best coach we've had in that area.  I hope Bryce can provide similar results...but I'll be honest...I think it's a wait and see proposition.

I'm not sure how many high schools can boast a ton of D1 O-Linemen.  Some definitely are better than others but in my opine...O-Linemen are developed in college.  Sure...the basics hafta be there...but it's hard to foresee true success in high school.  Spring practice is approaching so we should start hearing everything that's wrong on the GAVSV real soon.

Any way you cut it...Region play is everything.  It sets the table for the playoffs and hopefully we'll be good enough to get the best seeding we can in order to give us a realistic chance at grabbing a crown.  Can you believe that the Valdosta game is back to actually meaning something?

 

 

Rufus>>

I think in high school you just need size there. You can coach them up, but size is important. 

We can't seem to find a lot of big kids to coach up for some reason. 

You are correct though, we are constantly working at the position. We manage to get a lot out of usually smaller kids. 5'10" averaged o-line kids are getting clubbed by 6'5" averaged d lines. 

Its part of the reason why we weren't seeing a lot of targets to Landen Thomas last season. He was needed as a blocker because one side of our line was small. Now we've graduated the two biggest ones we had. Not sure if any of those others grew 6" since last I saw them or not, but, I don't think so. 

[Rufus69]

2 hours ago, HawgGoneIt said:

I think in high school you just need size there. You can coach them up, but size is important. 

We can't seem to find a lot of big kids to coach up for some reason. 

You are correct though, we are constantly working at the position. We manage to get a lot out of usually smaller kids. 5'10" averaged o-line kids are getting clubbed by 6'5" averaged d lines. 

Its part of the reason why we weren't seeing a lot of targets to Landen Thomas last season. He was needed as a blocker because one side of our line was small. Now we've graduated the two biggest ones we had. Not sure if any of those others grew 6" since last I saw them or not, but, I don't think so. 

Most of the high school O-Line coaches I know will be more than satisfied with a height between 5' 10" - 6' 0"....WIDE BODY...around 250 - 275 lbs...if they have POWER and quick feet.  It provides a low center of gravity and frankly they don't get pushed around by the 6' 5" D-Liners.  It also helps with throwing lanes for a shorter QB.  I would agree that at most D1 colleges...height is more important.

But Colquitt hasn't had many of the 5' 10" WIDE BODIES over the past several years either.

 

Rufus>>

[HawgGoneIt]

3 hours ago, Rufus69 said:

Most of the high school O-Line coaches I know will be more than satisfied with a height between 5' 10" - 6' 0"....WIDE BODY...around 250 - 275 lbs...if they have POWER and quick feet.  It provides a low center of gravity and frankly they don't get pushed around by the 6' 5" D-Liners.  It also helps with throwing lanes for a shorter QB.  I would agree that at most D1 colleges...height is more important.

But Colquitt hasn't had many of the 5' 10" WIDE BODIES over the past several years either.

 

Rufus>>

We've been making due on the line with smaller kids and a lot of heart. 

I know there are bigger kids at the school. I see them. Getting them to play is another thing though. 

[FreeBird]

6 hours ago, HawgGoneIt said:

I think in high school you just need size there. You can coach them up, but size is important. 

We can't seem to find a lot of big kids to coach up for some reason. 

You are correct though, we are constantly working at the position. We manage to get a lot out of usually smaller kids. 5'10" averaged o-line kids are getting clubbed by 6'5" averaged d lines. 

Its part of the reason why we weren't seeing a lot of targets to Landen Thomas last season. He was needed as a blocker because one side of our line was small. Now we've graduated the two biggest ones we had. Not sure if any of those others grew 6" since last I saw them or not, but, I don't think so. 

St joes did great with OLine last year but half of our Oline was 6”3 and 6’4 and the other half was 5-11 6 foot and they held their own but when they play a team like Bergen when the kid 5-11 kid is going up against someone that 6’6 6’5 6’4 290 , half our Oline would straight up get bullied

[Rufus69]

55 minutes ago, HawgGoneIt said:

We've been making due on the line with smaller kids and a lot of heart. 

I know there are bigger kids at the school. I see them. Getting them to play is another thing though. 

I know that's right.

Maybe the new coaches will be more successful.

Would you tell Bull....No?

LOL...

 

 

Rufus>>

[HawgGoneIt]

3 hours ago, FreeBird said:

St joes did great with OLine last year but half of our Oline was 6”3 and 6’4 and the other half was 5-11 6 foot and they held their own but when they play a team like Bergen when the kid 5-11 kid is going up against someone that 6’6 6’5 6’4 290 , half our Oline would straight up get bullied

We've done pretty well with some small o-lines to be honest. We usually have one side strong and like you would want or expect and the other side smaller. When we went back to back we were solid all the way across the line but still had one side we called the twin towers. 

In my opinion, that's literally the hurdle we need to clear in order to reach the pinnacle again. We are generally loaded at all the skill positions and usually pretty solid on defense. 

The last few seasons our culture went a little soft from what we were accustomed to defensively and on the o-line. We suffered the consequences of that once we rolled up into the playoffs. You start meeting teams that are more complete the deeper in there you go and those weak spots get taken advantage of. 

We definitely would benefit from some sizeable o-line kids that we can get coached up. We've just really missed the "nastiness" that we used to have on the line more than size though. Give me a line of 5'10" kids at 245 to 275 that are sound in technique, mean and nasty and I'm happy. 

[Rufus69]

12 hours ago, HawgGoneIt said:

We've done pretty well with some small o-lines to be honest. We usually have one side strong and like you would want or expect and the other side smaller. When we went back to back we were solid all the way across the line but still had one side we called the twin towers. 

In my opinion, that's literally the hurdle we need to clear in order to reach the pinnacle again. We are generally loaded at all the skill positions and usually pretty solid on defense. 

The last few seasons our culture went a little soft from what we were accustomed to defensively and on the o-line. We suffered the consequences of that once we rolled up into the playoffs. You start meeting teams that are more complete the deeper in there you go and those weak spots get taken advantage of. 

We definitely would benefit from some sizeable o-line kids that we can get coached up. We've just really missed the "nastiness" that we used to have on the line more than size though. Give me a line of 5'10" kids at 245 to 275 that are sound in technique, mean and nasty and I'm happy. 

Yeah...that basically was my point.  In high school...most schools don't get to recruit the BIG athletic O-Linemen to groom for their upper years.  You coach the ones you got.  Occasionally, you'll get to hire a coach with a GROWN son...but that doesn't happen that often.  Kids that transfer in are usually of the skill position sort.

If you know anything about me...and I'm pretty sure you do...you know I'm an O-Line guy.  I love that position and the kids who play it.  As I've said...Joey Bennett was the BEST when he was at Colquitt.  He did the most with the least.  When Giddens and Mobley played on the line...you wanna talk about "nastiness" ?   LOL.  Them fellers were fun to watch.  Gonna be interesting to see if Bryce can translate some of that into the current players.  I just bet that Bull will on the opposite side...(Smile).

 

 

Rufus>>