I have recently been in touch with a football player I played with in high school at North Davidson. He graduates this year. He informed me that he was coming to Charlotte to play football. He talked to Coach Mullens, and Mullens told him that he was the first football recruit out of North Carolina.
He stands about 6ā4" and weighs about 300-315. He got offers from smaller schools but wants to be an engineer so decided his education was more important than playing at a small school.
Gotta love it. Now that we are getting word of potential players for that first recruiting class it is beginning to feel more and more real. Football is hereā¦ and the excitement of it is enough to help me get over what was an abysmal basketball season.
Thatās a big center. Our engineering program must be a good recruiting tool considering the investments in infrastructure adjacent to the new stadium.
Hi RealisticNinerā¦I grew up (my early years) in Midway and both my brothers played for N Davidsonā¦ Niners are everywhereā¦ Good to have you on the board!
He will be a walk on player from my understanding with a possibility of receiving a scholarship.
He will be at the groundbreaking ceremony at the end of the month. Which makes me wonder how many recruits they are trying to get before the ceremony.
His offensive line coach in high school also played at Wake during the Caldwell era there. Coming from the same high school I know that Thomas also does the same workouts that the Wake Forest football team did. The head coach was a huge wake fan, and tried to base everything he did off coach Grobeās football theory.
Thats awesome! I graduated from North Davidson back in 2003- Not a lot of Niner fans up that way compared to Wake, App and Carolinaā¦ at least when I was there.
His offensive line coach in high school also played at Wake during the Caldwell era there. Coming from the same high school I know that Thomas also does the same workouts that the Wake Forest football team did. The head coach was a huge wake fan, and tried to base everything he did off coach Grobeās football theory.
Guess thats why the Black Knights always lost to the Titans while JFickett and I were in school
Iām assuming you were there around 2006 and 2007. Which would be when there was another coach that was horrific running the program. Coach Holcomb has turned it around.
But I donāt want to talk about who has the better high school on the Charlotte board because Iām sure we all agree GO NINERS!!!
[quote=ā49CentsWorth, post:17, topic:25291ā]And speaking of best, check out myndsports.com. This is the best and most visited high school websites in the country.
My daughter knows Thomas. He is a great kid and has made a wise decision.
Go Niners (and Black Knights)[/quote]
Good site. Hereās an article on Frazier: Frazier To Play In East-West Game
If Iām reading this right, Frazier was one of only a handful of people in school history to ever make the game:
Frazier joins 11 other Black nights and Don Palmer who coached the 1970 team to make the East -West All Star Team.
I first became acquainted with North Davidson in 1999, when my high school (Northwest Cabarrus) went up there and beat them in a 15-over-2 upset in the first round of the state football playoffs. That is a football school, and theyāre good at a lot of other sports for that matter. If we could get a pipeline of kids coming out of there, it couldnāt be a bad thing.
