re: Desean Smith WR Barbe Sophmore

he's not 6-1. he may end up there though

we'll see how his speed develops

he's likely a baseball player anyway

*Quinn, not D

Saw him in the Barbe-Acadiana game. He will be very very good, no doubt.

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And the dude never lets the ball come to him.
The thing I love most about Landry, Beckham, and Chris Briggs

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+1.

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Gotta say 225 & 6'5" for a current sophmore, looks like he is gonna be a big one in LA in 2013.

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Sounds like he might end up being bigger than Leonard Pope was at UGA

I still can't believe I've never fricking met you. My wife grew up with Shane.

Have you attended any Barbe games in the last few years? It is a retorical interrogative. If so you should immediately book an appointment at the Hart Eye Clinic. My take is that Blanchard could block but not catch and for sure had grade problems at MSU. Morrow stayed at Grambling a only few weeks and had illusions of arena football. Carnahan was QB as a senior and was not recruited. Edmonson and Celestie are now at McNeese are good athletes. Quinn is light years ahead of all of those aforementioned receivers. Slow? I saw him run a 22.72 200 meter race (electric timed)at Iowa as an eight grader after strolling away from a high jump win. Justin Vincent, Bahnsen Miller, and Ivan Stevenson are the top four in the Barbe records and were over 23 seconds for the 200 meter as 8th graders. Those guys still hold he Louisiana Class 5A State Meet 4 x 1 relay record at 40.78 seconds set in 2002. Also over 23 seconds as an eigth grader was Baylor All-American and Olympic hopeful Trey Harts the Barbe 100M and 200M record holder. Check with Johnnie Giordano at Hamilton Christian for specifics. He will tell you that the boy Quinn ain't slow. Also I don't think that any of the Barbe coaches have gone out of their way to place any of their players in programs except the baseball coach.

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the general consensus on cecchini in lake charles is that he's a prick

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this is not true at all, at least not with any of the people i know.

Ernest is enrolled. There is a story in this AM's Lake Charles American Press discussing transfers to the McNeese program. Coach Viator seems enthusiastic.

No SFP, I am not a coach. But I have had HS and college coaches tell me about the 2 step/5 yard rule of thumb. If a kid covers 5 yards in 2 steps when he is at full speed, he is almost always 4.5 or better. I won't slam you on this one, because when I watch Quinn run he doesn't look like Trindon Holliday. He is VERY deceptive when he runs, he is a long strider and glides. Reminds me of the way Eric Dickerson used to run. The footage I saw was two 80 yard TD plays agaisnt Evangel in which he left behind two very fast DB's. It looked like he gets on top of these DB's in a sneaky kind of way then runs by them.

If I had a horse in the race it would be Foster (Barbe QB), but all of you guys told me I was reaching. He will end up making some college coach happy at QB. Quinn and Smith both are going to miss Foster and I expect their stats to drop some without Foster throwing to them.

I don't really know the guys you mentioned, but I would bet that they weren't starting on a 5A roster as a freshman either. Quinn needs to go to some summer camps and let the coaches decide what he can do.

I DO agree that out of all of them, Smith will be the most highly recruited, due to that big frame of his. I think he can add more quality weight and be a nationally recruited TE. Would love to see that big dude in purple and gold!

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I don't really know the guys you mentioned, but I would bet that they weren't starting on a 5A roster as a freshman either.

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i don't know if curtis had M/M his way to barbe at that point

BHS was a lot more loaded in the late 90s than it is now. the overall talent at BHS has dropped off in the pact decade

this seems to be the case across the board in LAHSFB though