Written by Charlie Beuttel Twitter: @charlie_cds3 Shawnee Mission South High School, located just outside of Kansas City (KS), had an average season last year with the Raiders finishing 11-11 scoring on average 50.86 points a game. The good news for Raiders’ fans is that the team has an extra year of experience under their belts and one of the returning […]
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Written by Ryan Wright Twitter: @HogManInLA Catching the attention of college coaches as a high school senior can be really tough. The task seemed even tougher for Harmony Grove High School two-way player Cameron Venzant, but he did it. The Hornets were 3-8 in 2014 so many coaches did not see his 863 receiving yards and seven total touchdowns scored. […]
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Written by Charlie Beuttel Twitter: @charlie_cds3 In 2014, the Denham Springs Yellow Jackets in Denham Springs, Louisiana, finished with a 7-5 record and reached the second round of the playoffs. Going into the 2015 season expectations were high as the team was returning senior quarterback Torez Kinchen who had been the starter since halfway through his sophomore season. Kinchen led Denham […]
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Written by Ryan Wright Twitter: @HogManInLA The 2015 season has been a long time coming for Grossmont linebacker Nick Galatis. The sophomore had a couple of injury setbacks that slowed down his on the field growth since he graduated from Clairemont in San Diego after an outstanding high school career. The 6’1”, 235 pound, athlete is tearing it up for […]
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Written by Ryan Wright Twitter: @HogManInLA When the 2017 recruiting class inks their letters of intent one lucky class will be picking up a grinder in the trenches with Lewisburg offensive lineman Seth Johnson. The 6’4”, 300 pound, guard/tackle is a nasty blocker who loves to knock the opposition on their can and then smother said defender into the ground […]
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Written by Ryan Wright Twitter: @HogManInLA The Bentonville Tigers are off to a 6-0 record under first-year head coach Jody Grant. Grant has taken over the Tigers’ program after the retirement of legendary Arkansas high school coach Barry Lunney Sr. Lunney guided the Bentonville program to back-to-back state championships before retiring at the end of the 2014 season. Picking up […]
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Written by Ryan Wright Twitter: @HogManInLA The state of Arkansas is filled with Class of 2016 Division-I talent and one of the many in the group is Fort Smith Southside linebacker Si Kilinc. Kilinc is a prototypical player in many aspects including being a hustle player, quick to the ball, and sound in his assignments. The 6’1”, 195 pound, athlete […]
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Written by Ryan Wright Twitter: @HogManInLA Continuing off an All-State performance in 2014, Class of 2016 offensive lineman Noah Johnson is back at it on the Arkansas high school gridiron. Helping push Fayetteville in the right direction in 2015, the Bulldogs have a 3-0 record with nice wins over Eisenhower (OK) 58-6, North Little Rock 53-14, and Muskogee (OK) 55-20. […]
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Written by Charlie Beuttel In 2014, the Lafayette Lions finished 4-6 and fell one game short of making the playoffs. Going into the 2015 season expectations were higher surrounding the team as the Lions returned the majority of the team including offense weapon Jaelyn Price. Lafayette has started off the 2015 season 2-0 after winning at Peabody, 39-21, and then […]
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Written by Ryan Wright Twitter: @HogManInLA Every year countless high school football players with next level talent get overlooked or perhaps do not receive as much attention as deserved. All things apply to Fort Smith Southside outside linebacker Si Kilinc. Kilinc might be a little bit of a tweener at 6’1”, 190-195, but he mans the outside linebacker position well […]
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Written by Ryan Wright Twitter: @HogManInLA Every conference has a guy like Harmony Grove High School’s Cameron Venzant – a playmaker that always finds a way to get that needed first down or score that big touchdown. Every state also has a guy like Venzant that gets overlooked by most colleges because he does not fit a certain mold despite […]
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Written by Ryan Wright Twitter: @HogManInLA As the 2015 college football season is set to begin this week, hard to believe some states are a couple of weeks deep into their 2015 high school football season already. College coaches across the nation want to see the 3-4 game highlight reel to make further evaluations on recruits that they are interested […]
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Written by Ryan Wright All success stories have to start somewhere and for Breylin Smith his began and will extend in Conway, Arkansas. On Tuesday the Conway High School star verbally committed to UCA agreeing to a few more years in central Arkansas. Interest in Smith really started to take off after his junior year when he helped the Wampus […]
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Written by Charlie Beuttel Calvary Baptist Academy in Shreveport, Louisiana won back to back Division-III Louisiana State Championships in 2013 and 2014. During those two championship seasons the Cavaliers were led by quarterback Shea Patterson. However on July 13, Patterson announced he was transferring to IMG Academy in Florida leaving big shoes to fill under center. Calvary Baptist head coach […]
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Written by Charlie Beuttel Calvary Baptist Academy in Shreveport, Louisiana won back to back Division-III Louisiana State Championships in 2013 and 2014 and was in the midst of preparing to defend their state championships when a program shifting announcement was made. A run at a third straight title is insight however the task will happen without starting quarterback Shea Patterson […]
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Written by Ryan Wright Cisco sophomore quarterback Richard Lagow was in a difficult position heading into his sophomore season. The automatic qualifier out of high school caught the attention of six colleges after throwing for over 2,900 yards with 29 touchdowns as a freshman but was left in an uncertain grey area not knowing if he should press forward at […]
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Written by Ryan Wright When National Signing Day 2016 nears that first Wednesday in February watch for the name Richard Lagow, because Division-I colleges in need of a quarterback with the potential to step in and start right away will put this Texas junior college gunslinger in high demand. The Cisco College signal caller has quickly become one of the […]
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Written by Ryan Wright When we last caught up with Lewisburg High School offensive/defensive lineman Preston Haynes in mid-May he was completely off the radar. Haynes has the size, 6’4”, 310 pounds, the raw strength, and emerging skills but few regional college recruiters had really pushed forward on him for reasons out of his control. Now that Haynes has made […]
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Written by Ryan Wright Over the weekend top recruits from around the region got an opportunity to strut their stuff for the Razorback football staff during an on-campus Arkansas one-day camp. Among the many to show out included Conway quarterback Breylin Smith. Smith, 6’3”, 190 pounds, gained national recruiting interest lining up under center for Conway in as a junior […]
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Written by Ryan Wright Mitch Perkinson had a breakout season for Edmond North High School in 2014. The Huskies had an up-and-down season but Perkinson routinely found a way to get open coming up with 25 receptions for 420 yards with two touchdowns. The roughly 6’0”, 177 pound, slot/possession receiver is on a lot of college recruiting boards with teams […]
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Written by Charlie Beuttel The Parkway Panthers in Bossier City, Louisiana has had two successful seasons in the past two years including making it all the way to 2013 Louisiana 5A State Championship Game. Unfortunately Parkway had to forfeit five wins from last year due to playing an ineligible player. The Panthers have many talented players all over the field including […]
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The second time around is not always the sweetest but for former Dallas area high school star quarterback Richard Lagow the first time around was not necessarily that great anyway. Now the former University of Connecticut turned former Oklahoma State walk-on is looking to find a new Division-I home via Cisco Community College, and tearing it up in the process. […]
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Edmond North High School wide out Mitch Perkinson is a player ready to make things happen against opposing Oklahoma high school defenses and at the next level. The 6’0”, 177 pound, receiver is viewed as a slot possession receiver, but he has some giddy up in his kick posting a 4.5 forty-yard dash wherever a coach has a stop clock. […]
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College coaches love evaluating high school recruits in person. The one-on-one time allows coaches to see if recruits are as big, fast, and as skilled as they appear on tape. The time during the camp also allows for coaches to see if a player is coachable and it helps forge a bond with said recruit. For Fort Smith linebacker Deontre […]
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Hard to believe it but college and NFL coaches are human too. All coaches have their strong points in some area of the game but that does not mean that all coaches know how to build a football team across the board. All coaches are also prone to following the trends and the latest trend on offense for the last […]
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If you are ever in Desoto County Mississippi on a Friday night during the fall of 2015, do yourself a favor and checkout a Lewisburg High School football game. The Patriots’ 2014 season in terms of a win-loss record will not drive the masses to the stadium but tucked away in Olive Branch, Mississippi are two sleeper recruits who could […]
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No matter how dominating a football player your local high school stud was or currently is chances are he was nowhere near as prolific as San Diego’s Nick Galatis. During Galatis’ junior year at Clairemont High School he registered a jaw dropping 189 tackles. Proving he was not a one-year wonder during his senior season he put 235 hats in […]
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Conway Wampus Cats quarterback Breylin Smith has proved his worth on the Arkansas high school gridirons but is now positioning himself for an influential summer filled with one-day college camps. Over the course of the next several weeks the 6’3”, 190 pound, gunslinger who threw for over 2,000 yards with 20 touchdowns against just five picks as a junior in […]
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One thing that cannot be coached at any level his massive size or elite speed. One thing Fayetteville offensive lineman Noah Johnson has is great size and good speed, especially for a player his size. Watching the 6’3”, 320 pound, offensive lineman work one can tell he is still putting it all together on the field. The other important thing […]
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Broken Arrow High School’s Scotty Gilkey Jr. is one of the biggest mystery men of the Midwest and Southern Region for the Class of 2016. The 6’5”, 210 pound, pro-style gunslinger was slowed on the field last year by injury but that has not stopped Eastern Illinois, Louisville, and Louisiana-Monroe from extending offers, but the curiosity into the right arm […]
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