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re: What LA high school had the most dominant reign in a period?
Posted on 7/8/23 at 6:08 am to Freddy238
Posted on 7/8/23 at 6:08 am to Freddy238
I'm talking about a period of time, and nothing JC has had ever in a 10 year stretch came close to Evangel 95-06ish.
Evangel had like 3 very close years of having the #1 overall recruit with Booty, Berlin, and someone else I can't remember (maybe other Booty, not LSU one). Their off year between Berlin and Booty, was a QB that was still #80 recruit in country, went to OU I think. Brock Berlin is still rated as the #8 recruit on 247 in the history of all hundreds of thousands of recruits they've ranked over the years. Evangel had constant 4 or so guys in top 150 recruits each year. John Curtis hasn't ever had that or close. Maybe 1 guy in the top 150 every 3 or so years, but 3 to 4 guys a year? McKnight is ranked 12th of all time.
They definitely recruited from the broader area and housed/gave parents jobs to accomplish this imo in Shreveport.
John Curtis is in 2A. It's a lot different pre whenever they changed it up to win a 2A and 5A state title. 5A was much much deeper.
John David Booty was 1st player in country to skip senior year to go to USC because his dad and the Evangel head coach/pastor got into an argument over a bible study, but back then when they rated just seniors, all recruiting services had him pegged to be the #1 recruit until he left. If you youtube their highlights from then, it's bizzare. They ran the shotgun from 10 yards behind LOS. Crazy seeing it that far back.
Evangel had like 3 very close years of having the #1 overall recruit with Booty, Berlin, and someone else I can't remember (maybe other Booty, not LSU one). Their off year between Berlin and Booty, was a QB that was still #80 recruit in country, went to OU I think. Brock Berlin is still rated as the #8 recruit on 247 in the history of all hundreds of thousands of recruits they've ranked over the years. Evangel had constant 4 or so guys in top 150 recruits each year. John Curtis hasn't ever had that or close. Maybe 1 guy in the top 150 every 3 or so years, but 3 to 4 guys a year? McKnight is ranked 12th of all time.
They definitely recruited from the broader area and housed/gave parents jobs to accomplish this imo in Shreveport.
John Curtis is in 2A. It's a lot different pre whenever they changed it up to win a 2A and 5A state title. 5A was much much deeper.
John David Booty was 1st player in country to skip senior year to go to USC because his dad and the Evangel head coach/pastor got into an argument over a bible study, but back then when they rated just seniors, all recruiting services had him pegged to be the #1 recruit until he left. If you youtube their highlights from then, it's bizzare. They ran the shotgun from 10 yards behind LOS. Crazy seeing it that far back.
This post was edited on 7/8/23 at 7:06 am
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Posted on 7/8/23 at 6:40 am to Saunson69
Evangel was the first college style ran high school program I ever saw, from the recruiting of players to actually having the curriculum and credits setup around the football program. To even the way money was funneled into the program through boosters from a church. It really was ahead of its time. It’s was ran like a D1 college 30 years ago before the IMGs of the modern era were ever even thought of…
Posted on 7/8/23 at 6:52 am to Saunson69
So is your question most dominant recruits during a period or dominant teams? I’m from north Louisiana and thoroughly enjoyed watching both Evangel and West Monroe during 90’s/00’s. I even loved going to watch Haynesville (17 {1A} state championships) play a couple of times in 2000.
John Curtis (27 state championships) wins the dominant Louisiana team conversation, no question. They are 2A, but they were winning 4A state championships in football until 2005. Most notably, beating Keiland Williams led Northside High in 2004.
Evangel dominated the 90’s, but so did John Curtis. The difference is JC was doing it in the 70’s, 80’s, 90’s, 00’s, & 4 titles post-2010 with 2018 being the most recent. Evangels first championship was 1993 and their last was 2016.
So if your question is dominant teams: it’s John Curtis
If we’re talking D1 recruits, yeah, give me Evangel during 90’s/00’s.
John Curtis (27 state championships) wins the dominant Louisiana team conversation, no question. They are 2A, but they were winning 4A state championships in football until 2005. Most notably, beating Keiland Williams led Northside High in 2004.
Evangel dominated the 90’s, but so did John Curtis. The difference is JC was doing it in the 70’s, 80’s, 90’s, 00’s, & 4 titles post-2010 with 2018 being the most recent. Evangels first championship was 1993 and their last was 2016.
So if your question is dominant teams: it’s John Curtis
If we’re talking D1 recruits, yeah, give me Evangel during 90’s/00’s.
This post was edited on 7/8/23 at 7:05 am
Posted on 7/8/23 at 7:17 am to Saunson69
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Evangel had like 3 very close years of having the #1 overall recruit with Booty, Berlin, and someone else I can't remember (maybe other Booty, not LSU one). Their off year between Berlin and Booty, was a QB that was still #80 recruit in country, went to OU I think.
Brent Rawls. Was probably the most talented of the bunch and had the measurables to be the one to make it in the NFL. He just didn’t have the dedication, mental toughness, or maturity. He played WR his first few years and was decent at that position.
Posted on 7/8/23 at 1:14 pm to Saunson69
And couldn’t beat WM in the Dome consistently.
If you’re talking those years, WM falls in front because of state championships IMO.
Barbe baseball has had a pretty incredible track record of winning and producing talent since the 90s and still continues. I don’t think we have anything that even compares other than Curtis and their ridiculous number of championships.
Curtis won a ton of theirs at 4A before the reclassification as a 2A school. Evangel won several of theirs at 1A or 2A before they started playing 5A. When they started playing 5A, WM was a big problem.
If you’re talking those years, WM falls in front because of state championships IMO.
Barbe baseball has had a pretty incredible track record of winning and producing talent since the 90s and still continues. I don’t think we have anything that even compares other than Curtis and their ridiculous number of championships.
Curtis won a ton of theirs at 4A before the reclassification as a 2A school. Evangel won several of theirs at 1A or 2A before they started playing 5A. When they started playing 5A, WM was a big problem.
This post was edited on 7/8/23 at 1:20 pm
Posted on 7/8/23 at 5:29 pm to Saunson69
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If you youtube their highlights from then, it's bizzare. They ran the shotgun from 10 yards behind LOS. Crazy seeing it that far back.
The first video I saw was tbem losing to a team from Arkansas 35-7 in 2005.
And they weren’t 10yds back.
Posted on 7/11/23 at 9:48 am to Saunson69
quote:List the Evangel Players that had College careers equaling these Curtis players:
Evangel had like 3 very close years of having the #1 overall recruit with Booty, Berlin, and someone else I can't remember (maybe other Booty, not LSU one). Their off year between Berlin and Booty, was a QB that was still #80 recruit in country, went to OU I think. Brock Berlin is still rated as the #8 recruit on 247 in the history of all hundreds of thousands of recruits they've ranked over the years. Evangel had constant 4 or so guys in top 150 recruits each year. John Curtis hasn't ever had that or close. Maybe 1 guy in the top 150 every 3 or so years, but 3 to 4 guys a year? McKnight is ranked 12th of all time.
Mike Stonebreaker- Notre Dame
Chris Howard- Michigan
Jonathon Wells- Ohio State
Kenny Young- UCLA
Joe McKnight- USC
Reggie Dupard-SMU
Clarence LeBlanc-LSU
Melvin Hayes- Miss St
Dillon Gordon- LSU
Malachi Dupre- LSU
Tony Bua- Arkansas
And this is just a sampling
Posted on 7/15/23 at 2:56 pm to Saunson69
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Evangel had like 3 very close years of having the #1 overall recruit with Booty, Berlin, and someone else I can't remember
Phillip Deas. Set the national HS season record for yards (broken 2 years later by 5 people, including Berlin). Hopped around UNC, Texas, and maybe Tech.
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