'07 FL RB Noel Devine (West Virginia signee)

[BuckNutty]

NOEL DEVINE


North Fort Myers HS
North Fort Myers, FL
HT: 5'8"
WT: 180
40: 4.35

I found this on the recruiting board at BN. The screen play he takes to the house is one of the better runs I think I've ever seen, certainly at the HS level. Any word on this kid, HH?

http://www.sunshinepreps.net/oldclips/NoelDevine.wmv

[coxew]

That certainly was one of the most impressive runs I've seen also. I don't think I've ever seen a freshman with the moves Devine displayed here.

[Buckskin86]

more info on Devine

Rushing Num Yds Avg Lng TD Y/G
Season Totals: 121 1105 9.1 83 11 110.5

Receiving Num Yds Avg Y/G
Season Totals: 5 84 16.8 8.4

check out who his favorite pro is

[starBUCKS]

I need to see this run, anyone know where it could be seen? The BN board is going bonkers over this kid. Helping Hand.... grab him!

[Helpinghand]

Guys, he is on the radar from last year. Lets see how he is doing in a couple of years

[Buckskin86]

Devine is now on ESPN

The kid's name is Noel Devine, and up 'til about two weeks ago, he was a little-known prep tailback from southwest Florida. Sure, the people around the town of Fort Myers knew of him. After all, Devine had built up quite a rep running wild in Pop Warner ball for the Cape Coral Junior Dolphins smashing touchdown records, evoking comparisons to Fort Myers' original game-breaker, Deion Sanders.

Last fall, the 5-foot-7, 170-pound freshman also had quite a varsity debut for North Fort Myers High, rushing for 1,092 yards (over 9 yards per carry). However, five months after the season ended, Devine's rep has really taken off.

Why? An eye-popping six-minute highlight package of Devine's best runs surfaced on the web a few weeks ago, and his moves -- particularly on an 80-yard catch-and-run where he broke 10 tackles thanks in part to a trio of 360-spins -- had fans posting links to the video on college sites all across the country.

The reactions were pretty similar: "Unreal ? He's another Barry Sanders ? WOW!! ? Hope our coaches have seen this."

Ah, the wonders of the web. Last time we saw this kind of grass roots Internet buzz was when the X-rated Paris Hilton video made the rounds. Devine's video was courtesy of Tampa-based Sunshine Preps, an independent recruiting service run by 29-year-old Derek Williams, a finance consultant who created the free site to help Florida kids get noticed. Mission accomplished.

Less than two weeks after Williams posted a "Hey, check this out" link on a local bulletin board to Devine's highlight reel, his site was getting hammered. "I think we had 20,000 hits one day and my website lady called and said she had to take the video down because it crashed the site," says Williams.

For the skeptics out there, Devine's performance did come against solid competition. (North Fort Myers is not only Sanders' alma mater, but Jevon Kearse's as well.) As the video shows Devine has outstanding balance, quickness and speed (he's a 10.7 100-meter man already). His coach James Iandoli, who also coached one-time Florida phenom Willie Green at Kissimmee Osceola, reports that Devine even benches 330 pounds. Iandoli says the thing that really catches his eye though is how Devine runs with such a forward lean and cuts "downhill." Still, the coach admits he's leery about his young back's sudden celebrity. "People have been calling him 'The Next Deion' for awhile," he says. "He's a good kid. I just hope he can manage it all."

[Buckeye1]

I always seemed to have problem opening these video clips attachments...any help???

[osubux11]

buckeye1,

"my website lady called and said she had to take the video down because it crashed the site"
i think those clips were linked directly to this site which had to remove them?

[Mudvayne]

Sorry I missed it. Thanks a lot, Nutty