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Post by Magnum on Sept 17, 2013 22:12:29 GMT -5
I remember going to see him play in high school against Oak Ridge I think... I think Bubba Trammell was on his team as well... Yes. His Sophomore year, they were loaded. He and Trammell being two major leaguers. Trammell went to Roane State the next year. Then on to UT. That same year, you probably watched me and my boys whip your Mavericks. |
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Post by Krakow on Sept 18, 2013 5:56:21 GMT -5
nope
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Post by gramps on Sept 18, 2013 11:21:41 GMT -5
I remember going to see him play in high school against Oak Ridge I think... I think Bubba Trammell was on his team as well... Yes. His Sophomore year, they were loaded. He and Trammell being two major leaguers. Trammell went to Roane State the next year. Then on to UT. That same year, you probably watched me and my boys whip your Mavericks. Also had Chris Freeman (UT, made it to AA baseball) and Pug Wood, who signed with Alabama out of Central and played 1 year at Bama before transferring to Tennessee Wesleyan if memory serves, on that Central team. They were absolutely loaded. |
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Post by Magnum on Sept 18, 2013 14:50:57 GMT -5
Yeah Gramps. If forgot to mention Freeman.
I forgot about Pug Wood.
He beat us, the year before, in the Regional championship game. He played for Catholic that year.
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Post by Krakow on Sept 18, 2013 20:28:52 GMT -5
did they win state? where are the high school baseball power teams in tennessee?
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Post by gramps on Sept 18, 2013 21:44:20 GMT -5
did they win state? where are the high school baseball power teams in tennessee? Yes. During Helton's sophomore year (which was Trammell and Freeman's senior year) Central went undefeated and won the state AAA championship. |
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Post by Magnum on Sept 18, 2013 23:17:40 GMT -5
Yeah, they were undefeated, and we lost our first game, won 22 in a row, and then lost in the SubState. The Sentinel has write ups about us, a few times, but Central was always in the paper that year. Helton became legend after that year.
Then, his Bobcat football team had some legendary battles with Oak Ridge with Central coming out on top his Jr year, losing in the Semis to Lincoln County at Neyland. Is that right GRAMPS?
But the thing about Helton was, that he was an all-American QB and could have gone pretty much anywhere he wanted to for football.
I always use him as an example when one of my son's friends tell me the boy is going to concentrate on Baseball only.
I say, "You do realize the best baseball prospect in the modern era, Todd Helton played football in high school, and was arguably the best football prospect in Knoxville in quite some time"
"Uh, now, I didn't realize that. "
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Post by Thunder Good-Oil on Sept 19, 2013 5:13:12 GMT -5
Saw Todd QB for the Vols in Athens 20 years ago. Most memorable play was when was was lead blocker on a run. Good day for the Vols between the shrubs.
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Post by gramps on Sept 19, 2013 7:50:59 GMT -5
Yeah, they were undefeated, and we lost our first game, won 22 in a row, and then lost in the SubState. The Sentinel has write ups about us, a few times, but Central was always in the paper that year. Helton became legend after that year. Then, his Bobcat football team had some legendary battles with Oak Ridge with Central coming out on top his Jr year, losing in the Semis to Lincoln County at Neyland. Is that right GRAMPS? But the thing about Helton was, that he was an all-American QB and could have gone pretty much anywhere he wanted to for football. I always use him as an example when one of my son's friends tell me the boy is going to concentrate on Baseball only. I say, "You do realize the best baseball prospect in the modern era, Todd Helton played football in high school, and was arguably the best football prospect in Knoxville in quite some time" "Uh, now, I didn't realize that. " Pretty sure it was Lincoln County, Mag. That game with Oak Ridge was a classic, pitting Helton "against" Oak Ridge's Shawn Summers. Still said to be by most of the high school football "historians" to be the most legendary high school football game at least in the modern era. I'm convinced that Todd could have been a tremendous quarterback in the SEC had he concentrated on football. Everybody knew, however, that his ticket was in baseball. Rod Delmonico used to call Todd the best walkon in the history of college baseball. Since Todd was on football scholarship (which of course are full rides) he was considered a baseball walkon. |
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