ANOTHER RECRUITING HIGHLIGHT VIDEO OF SAD HS PLAYERS MISSING TACKLES
To behold Florida commit Andre Debose's high school highlights tape is to ask the eternal questions about all blue-chippers' high school preview tapes: Is this person real? What kind of hilljack mongoloid coach doesn't spot the fastest player on the field at punter on 4th down and scream "FAAAAAAAAKE?" Are the rosters of high school football teams stocked with undiagnosed epileptics and fainting goats wearing human suits? Is this person actually as good as advertised? Does the announcer have to celebrate touchdowns with a warmed over Chris Berman phrase from 1985? Do high school bands play songs, or merely toot away a tuneless anarchy for the better part of three quarters? Does he look slow because it was shot on VHS, or because he's bored out of his skull? Why did the other defense guard anyone else on the entire field, especially when he starts every play with a large arrow pointing out exactly where he is?
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Nice that should he keep number 4 we can continue our tradition of superfast sequential receiver-backs.
by zzgator on Jan 28, 2009 11:03 AM EST reply actions
Urbs has a pretty easy recruiting line for guys like this – ‘see Percy Harvin, that could be you. Sign here.’
by Brian O'Blivion on Jan 28, 2009 11:09 AM EST reply actions
Bruce and Fran are really doing God’s work.
by MrRedDevil on Jan 28, 2009 11:09 AM EST reply actions
Along the lines of ZZ Gator, will the players want to move up a number? Will Demps become 1, Rainey, 2, etc., DuBose 3….
I know players are superstitious about things like that…but who wouldn’t want to be No. 1?
It would be easier for UF fans if they were ranked in order of speed.
by hobeg8r on Jan 28, 2009 11:17 AM EST reply actions
…kinda hard to tackle what you can’t touch…
Debose seems to have the same combination of smooth and speed that Harvin patented…looks like Andre bought the local franchise from Percy.
by sb on Jan 28, 2009 11:53 AM EST reply actions
And why, exactly, were they punting? I thought he was going to throw it to himself 40-yards down field at the 2:54 mark.
by Dave on Jan 28, 2009 11:54 AM EST reply actions
When did North Carolina start playing high school teams?
by Last Dragon on Jan 28, 2009 11:56 AM EST reply actions
I think he might actually be the punter
And what offense does this team run? One play they are in some kind of three-back offense with this guy at quarterback, the next they are in spread with him at quarterback, then spread with him at receiver. And he sure blew by everyone but he also looked like he was just galloping most of the time. Probably will be a wideout at UF.
My favorite though is at around the 5:00 mark they do the big arrow over him so they can show him missing a block on a bubble screen to someone else. Priceless
by heeho on Jan 28, 2009 12:54 PM EST reply actions
I’m not buying it. It looks like a bunch of Hollywood special-effect flim-flammery. It will take another 39-point loss in Jacksonville to convince me. 10 months, in other words.
/taking my medicine
by Jason on Jan 28, 2009 1:27 PM EST reply actions
oh, how i love the five inch by seven inch space of white screen where everyone else is watching andre debose re-enact “the ringer” against entire defenses…corporate firewalls, how i love thee.
by hailtogeorgia on Jan 28, 2009 3:10 PM EST reply actions
Jason @ #11…you’re not toeing the party line, dammit. Please don’t ruin my pre-conceived notions with reasonable commentary…how else can I possibly maintain a focused “hated rivalry” if you’re not going to spout gibberish? Oh, and that was funny…
by sb on Jan 28, 2009 3:37 PM EST reply actions
@12 There’s several options you could try. First and easiest is using a proxy server. There’s lots of them – I use this one sometimes if there’s something that I really need to see before I go home. Another option is to get a good home router that you can set up a VPN, and then access your VPN from work and use your home’s internet connection to view whatever you want. That option requires a little networking know-how, but you can probably find guides on the web. Those first two cost very little, or nothing. The third option is to subscribe to something like GoToMyPC, which is another way to use your home’s internet connection, but that might cost something.
by Brian O'Blivion on Jan 28, 2009 3:55 PM EST reply actions
@12 There’s several options you could try. First and easiest is using a proxy server. There’s lots of them – I use this one sometimes if there’s something that I really need to see before I go home. Another option is to get a good home router that you can set up a VPN, and then access your VPN from work and use your home’s internet connection to view whatever you want. That option requires a little networking know-how, but you can probably find guides on the web. Those first two cost very little, or nothing. The third option is to subscribe to something like GoToMyPC, which is another way to use your home’s internet connection, but that might cost something.
by Brian O'Blivion on Jan 28, 2009 3:57 PM EST reply actions
Crap, sorry about the double post. I blame corporate firewalls.
by Brian O'Blivion on Jan 28, 2009 4:03 PM EST reply actions
Crazy thing is that this doesn’t have any of his senior highlights, which are even more impressive. I know highschool defense is awful, but this guy’s running style looks identical to Harvin’s. Let’s pray he’s half that good when he gets to UF.
by Scotty on Jan 29, 2009 2:12 AM EST reply actions
I’m beginning to think there’s a sliver of a chance that he may be capable of going all the way.
by uhschnapp on Jan 29, 2009 5:07 AM EST reply actions
Do high school bands play songs, or merely toot away a tuneless anarchy for the better part of three quarters
As a HS band geek I can tell you that they are, in fact, songs despite auditory evidence to the contrary.
In fact, I’m pretty sure that every HS band in northeast Oklahoma was required, by law, to play the same set of contemporary hits: Tequila, Land of 1000 Dances, and The ‘Hey’ Song. These timeless classics were occasionally interrupted by the official fight song of every NE Oklahoma high school; On Wisconsin… makes sense right? no?
by CincySooner on Jan 29, 2009 8:46 AM EST reply actions
Hmm..you would have thought that LSU would have done a better job covering this HS school kid on those wr handoffs since they saw the same play in the half.
by Phocion on Jan 29, 2009 9:42 AM EST reply actions

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