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Re: Highest ranked recruit ever on campus?

Posted: Sat Jun 22, 2013 1:00 pm
by mrydel
Alaric wrote:Wasn't Larry Johnson pretty much the consensus no 1?
Ahhhhhh. One of the toughest decisions ever made by the WDNWHA Committee.

Re: Highest ranked recruit ever on campus?

Posted: Sat Jun 22, 2013 1:49 pm
by Alaric
mrydel wrote:
Alaric wrote:Wasn't Larry Johnson pretty much the consensus no 1?
Ahhhhhh. One of the toughest decisions ever made by the WDNWHA Committee.
AKPDWHA

Re: Highest ranked recruit ever on campus?

Posted: Tue Jun 25, 2013 7:53 am
by Mexmustang
No real bargains in the world, you get what you pay for...

Re: Highest ranked recruit ever on campus?

Posted: Wed Jun 26, 2013 11:29 pm
by Rayburn
Stallion wrote:DE Billy Don Jackson from Sherman was the No. 1 Recruit in the Country in 1976. Actually signed the old SWC Letter of Intent with SMU but then a week later signed National Letter of Intent with UCLA.
Billy Don Jackson, the illiterate guy who killed his drug dealer.

Re: Highest ranked recruit ever on campus?

Posted: Thu Jun 27, 2013 6:53 am
by Alaric

Re: Highest ranked recruit ever on campus?

Posted: Thu Jun 27, 2013 7:55 am
by Paladin
Alaric wrote:2007 update on Billy Ray Jackson:

http://articles.latimes.com/2007/jun/04 ... /sp-crowe4
That, folks, is what rehabilitation is all about. Good for Billy Don Jackson; what a great story !

Re: Highest ranked recruit ever on campus?

Posted: Thu Jun 27, 2013 5:56 pm
by mathman
Wasn't his nickname "Pappa Daddy" or am I thinking of someone else?

Re: Highest ranked recruit ever on campus?

Posted: Fri Jun 28, 2013 9:49 am
by gostangs
Seems redundant

Re: Highest ranked recruit ever on campus?

Posted: Fri Jun 28, 2013 10:49 am
by Rayburn
mathman wrote:Wasn't his nickname "Pappa Daddy" or am I thinking of someone else?
You might be thinking of Carl Snyder who was nicknamed Poppa Daddy.

Re: Highest ranked recruit ever on campus?

Posted: Sat Jun 29, 2013 8:15 pm
by AusTxPony
I think the answer to success in Bball starts and ends with LB. JJ is hardly a LB, and if he were we might be entertaining top kids. BTW, I know about the rest, but don't remember Walker QB, Charles RB, Godine DB, Bennett WR off that '79 Top 100. What happened with their careers? No offense intended .

Re: Highest ranked recruit ever on campus?

Posted: Sat Jun 29, 2013 9:36 pm
by max the wonder dog
AusTxPony wrote:I think the answer to success in Bball starts and ends with LB. JJ is hardly a LB, and if he were we might be entertaining top kids. BTW, I know about the rest, but don't remember Walker QB, Charles RB, Godine DB, Bennett WR off that '79 Top 100. What happened with their careers? No offense intended .
If I recall correctly, Charles Waggoner is quite the story. His freshman year he out performed ED and CJ, then had a career ending injury before his sophmore year. Tragedy for him, and SMU fans can dream about a Pony Express with three riders carrying the mail.