Don't think they jump over the McCort group but South Plainfield HS had their famous "Murder's Row," where 3 of its members ended up AAing in Anthony Ashnault, Troy Heilmann & Scott DelVecchio.
All jokes aside though, Braxton at 285 strikes some interest in me. After so much high school hype, he has not really panned out at the college level. I feel like this is the "make it or break it" season for him now.
Reading this thread is making me glad I made the decision to delete the Facebook app off my phone. It's far more comical than depressing to hear this Minnow reports pour in.
No doubt about it. He was in some absolute meat grinder brackets before winning it all. His toughness has never been in question. I guess what I was getting at was the leap he made without a redshirt in that true freshman year he AA'd. Knew he was good, but to be considered a title contender off the bat? Admittedly I underestimated him there; no more.
I'd like to throw in someone he beat @ 184 last year with Rutgers's Shane Cartegena-Walsh. These two went neck and neck; would like to think this match up could go either way.
Ferrari will never see the post-season before transitioning to a middling MMA career that ends with him coaching at a club in Miami or somewhere akin to that.
Tsirtsis journey is still one of the more distinct memories I have of first getting into the sport heavily. Glad he is doing so well for himself nowadays.
Amar Dhesi
Dustin Kilgore
BJ Clagon
Last one especially hits a nerve. Being from New Jersey & seeing how Clagon performed his senior year into freshman year at Rider was absolutely insane. To think he was considered a title threat to Zain at one point, and then didn't even qualify for NCAA's in his final year is still mind-boggling to think about.