#2 TE out of Ardmore.
Just curious if he is the "football player" type we need and want.
I fear our lack of TE playcalling will hurt our chances the most with this guy, and I hate to see perhaps the best player in the state go someplace other than OU again.
I direct you to the previous Gresham thread....so far it's come about that
he's soft
stone hands
indifferent
shys away from contact
"The mark of a great player is in his ability to come back. The great champions have all come back from defeat." - Sam Snead
He also has bad grades
Then I guess all of these schools are wasting their time...
LSU
Miami-FL
Missouri
Nebraska
Oklahoma
Oklahoma State
Southern Cal
Tennessee
???????????
From what I'm getting schools are looking at 6'7 235 lbs, runs fast...which means he's being rated on 'combines'.Originally Posted by LSUdeek
"The mark of a great player is in his ability to come back. The great champions have all come back from defeat." - Sam Snead
Yikes, didn't read that other thread, I must have missed it.
Strange that the kid would be so highly rated and sought after and have simple fundamental issues with catching the football or avoiding contact.
I guess thats rankings for ya.
That's the strange evolution of high school football. Now that so much of a player's ranking is based upon 'measurables' some players end up higher than they should be because of the 'athletic' factor and not rated as much on being a football player.
"The mark of a great player is in his ability to come back. The great champions have all come back from defeat." - Sam Snead
Cause recruiting rankings are nevar wrong.
I gotta believe that this staff which is mostly from OSU has seen this guy play.
I can't believe that Josh Henson (LSU TE coach) hasn't seen him run routes and catch balls before offering him a scholarship.
But, the point might be moot with the Richard Dickson and J.D. Lott commitments. We are still after NaDerris Ward as well.
he isn't the first or the last 5* that i've seen play and asked what are these guys thinking. bryan pickryl was one that everyone was moaning about several years ago. if you watched the kid play, knowing that he had had recurring shoulder issues in the past, you could pretty much tell he wasn't going to be anything but injured in college as a DE. his entire game was using swim moves and slaps to get past his man - in other words, moves that were really hard on the shoulder.
i said as much on hornfans and said that the guy would make a better TE than DE and got laughed off. 3 years later his only memorable moment is jumping offsides his freshman year and allowing OU 8 points before halftime. the rest has been one shoulder injury after another.
if these guys say that gresham doesn't like contact and has marginal hands, then there isn't any way he's going to succeed on the college level.
He is a wide receiver, not a tight end. People don't even know the position of the kid, rivals just like to put him as a tight end. He cannot block, repeat, cannot block. I played varsity ball with the kid for two years and watched him as a freshman my sophomore year of high school. He is an athlete none the less, but the true ability is lacking. LSU can use a scholy on him if they want, just one we wont waste.
Nothing is true, everything is permitted...
What's up with the rep system around here?
I went from 950 to -4680. ????Believing High School hype is exactly what has gotten OU into trouble right now...... Gresham is a *****, have you seen him play???? Case closed!!!!
You have -4680 Reputation points.
Who's got the power to take a dude down 5000 pts? lol
i could take you down 9000, so be nice
I dont know the kid, but he looks lazy (at best) on his highlight clips.
lol: maturity
this is for the Sugar Bowl
i'll help you a litte, but gresham isn't a football player. jkm
how many are you negged now?
Have some more neg.
Tall people always look lazy. There legs are longer. Just like if you have a 5'6'' guy he is going to look faster than he really is. Part of the rankings are his potential but I have a hard time believing he is rated that good and is just tall and fast. And if it is such basic fundamentals why wouldn't OU be able to teach him that. He could redshirt the first year, not play a whole lot his freshman year, and then as a sophmore be a big fast player with good fundamentals.
Jermaine is visiting OU this weekend. I saw him tonight...looks like he was born to play tightend or slam a basketball
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[QUOTE]What's up with the rep system around here?
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Believing High School hype is exactly what has gotten OU into trouble right now...... Gresham is a *****, have you seen him play???? Case closed!!!!
You have -4680 Reputation points.
I went from 950 to -4680. ????
Who's got the power to take a dude down 5000 pts? lolQUOTE]
I just went down like 20,000 on one rating. I am off the scale bad... one bad dude, and apparently a punk from what the person wrote.
Last edited by Eielson; 12/17/2005 at 09:32 PM.
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