re: Bebe and Bobby... Lafourche legends

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Bonnabel’s QB had 350 yards of offense and wound up an All American DB at Alabama

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Tommy Wilcox.

As the story goes, Bear Bryant “personally” recruited him and about 10 other high school All American QBs around the country telling them that they would get a shot at the starting QB spot as a freshman.

When they signed and showed up on campus, Bryant didn’t even know who they were and the coaches just assigned them to whatever position they wanted them to play.

Remember, this was long before recruiting services, the internet, high school all american games, or any thing like that. Kids had no idea (other than word of mouth) who any team signed