Greatest High School player in State History?

GoldZ said:
ELI was purty damned goot and he wasn't nigheevied.
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As said before... Johnson County's Herschel Walker. Now which Herschel was the best, I'm not sure... :wink:
 
Pound for pound, I saw Tony Hollings perform some amazing things at Twiggs County before coming to Georgia Tech. Personally witnessed his leaping into a complete overhead somersault over two defenders, landing on his feet and continuing to end zone against East Laurens his senior year. Was an all star on both sides of the ball. Initially played defense at Tech before being

If not limited by injuries and, eventually, Flunkgate, he could have significantly impacted our record books.

Also saw the meeting of two of the greatest high school QBs in Georgia in the 1967 Decatur over Avondale / Dennis Chadwick v. Charles Dudish. It was a fantastic QB contest.
 
77GTFan said:
Stan Rome was a great player at Valdosta - the best HS receiver that I remember. Anthony Flanagan was a QB from Southwest Atlanta, now Mays. He threw to Reggie Wilkes on a great HS football team. Both of them were just as good at basketball.
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Flanagan's high school hoops coach wound up coaching James Forrest in high school. I got to know him pretty well and he told me Flan was the best he ever saw or coached. Met Flanagan one night and before I walked into the room I had never seen him or seen a picture but as soon as he was walked in, I knew that was him. He just had that look and air about him. Played football at Georgia and had a star-crossed career and probably should have played hoops instead.

Couple of the best I ever saw were Champ Bailey and Derrick Steagall. I also got to see Tony Hollings play one night at Twiggs and he made my jaw drop he was so good.
The single best high school player I ever saw was a linebacker out of Bradwell named Ronald Johnson. Played at Georgia Southern and he's now a SWAT officer in Atlanta. Just unbelievably dominant.
Herschel's the best HS player in Georgia history but Francouer probably ain't far behind. Didn't he have 15 TDs and 15 INTs one year at Parkview?
 
Buzztime said:
Billy Ray I remember that name. I think he graduated about the same time I did. Signed with Bama I am pretty sure and ...... Never heard of him until now. Funny how some players go to college and you never here from them again.
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I knew Billy Ray in high school.

Both he and Jeff Dunn signed with Alabama in the same class but Jeff Dunn was beating him out so he transfered to Duke. Both he and Dunn were rated amongst the top 5 QB's in the country out of high school. Heath Schuler was in that class also.

What was funny is that a 3rd QB was signed out of Alabama that year who was an unknown...Gary Holliingsworth...and of course he did great and eventually was SEC Offensive Player of the Year.

He transferred to Duke to play for Steve Spurrier and started in 1989 and was 174 of 274 (65%) passing for 2,035 yards and 15 TD's.

Billy Ray's great season led Duke to an 8-4 record which got Spurrier the HC job at Florida.

Billy had a chance to play for the Green Bay Packers but really just did not have a huge love for playing football...really never did. He decided to give it up and enter the work world.
 
B said:
James Brooks went on to Auburn and later the Bengals. Best HS FB player I've ever seen. Ron Simmons was the lineman who went to FSU, maybe the best DL I've seen in HS. The FB was Jimmy Womack (I believe) who was a starter on Ga.'s NC team. That team was loaded. Brooks was unreal quick.
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The Warner Robins HC who coached all-world Ron Simmons also coached Julian Butnette.

Told the AJC that Burnette was the best player he ever coached next to Ron Simmons.

And that was from one of the winningest HS head coaches in state history.
 
The coach at my old high school told me Ken Hobby of Tift County could throw perfect spirals with either hand.
I think Hobby went to Auburn and eventually became a pharmacist.
 
BuzzCzar said:
Dumbass can't spell naïve and starts calling other people names.... Since you can spell dick and öööö maybe move up to double vowel words like douchebag (and naïve)
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'Douchebag' is a quadruple-vowel word.
'Naive' is a triple-vowel word.
I think the word you were looking for was 'disyllabic'.

Seriously, though, playing grammar/spelling police on any non-language-arts board is the epitome of douchebaggery.
 
JJacket said:
UGAg seated 59,000 when he got there, 82,000+ when he left.
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Yep folks forget that at one time and for a long time Grant Field was bigger than...............Sanford .Hershel did a lot to make it bigger.He was the best I have seen with speed ,strenth and overall good guy who was as we say in the country.........raised right.
 
stingem103 said:
Not much else has ever happend in Wrightsville. But you are right. I wonder how different the world would have been if he went to GT.
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Talking to one of his coaches few months ago and its was clear of all places he wanted to go was..............Clemson...He would have set them on a pedestal for a few years.
 
Kim King at Brown and Larry Good at Glynn Academy weren't so bad, either.
 
Andy Johnson was very good! Led Athens High (Clarke Central?) to a tie against one of the great Valdosta teams. Led Georgia to a comeback win against Tech as a freshman. I think he ended up playing running back for the New England Patriots!
 
I went to high school with Andre Hastings. He was the USA Today Offensive Player of the Year and all the schools wanted him. Some of his catches in high school were instant SportsCenter highlights. He ended up going to ugag, and then played in a SuperBowl with Pittsburgh.
 
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James Davis from Douglass High..graduated in 2004 i believe and went to Clemson
 
Too lazy to read the whole thread again, but Champ Baily was a beast in HS and is probably the best NFL success to come out of UGAg.
 
texstinger said:
Yep. I believe it was 1975, GT was not on the field, so a buddy of mine and I went to ugag game vs Pitt. 32,000, IIRC, were in attendance. I think that was the game when a frosh named Dorsett played his first game for Pitt. Could have dates wrong, but the point is what can happen.

Greatest GA High School players? Wow.

Walker - Dudish - Swilling - Dent - Castleberry - Gulledge - Kell - Van Dora - Lothridge - man the list could go forever.
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I play golf with Tash Van Dora from time to time at Cateechee. I'm good buddies with his oldest son. We've always heard about the legend growing up and laughed about it, but apparantly he was a legit player. Still a helluva golfer/athlete. I'll pass along your ranking of him among the all time greats in GA.
 
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