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Originally Posted by Honor&Glory
apples and oranges.
Tyler is a bit undersized, but is fast, hits hard, smart and lives, sleeps, eats and dies for playing football...But Tyler is a LB.
Gene is 6-3, 215lbs...runs around a 4.4 to 4.5 40 and he is a safety/rb/wr...I think he may grow into a LB...If you have seen the Colerain v. Tyler Lee game he wears uniform number 1. His strength as a DB is that his cover skills are based on natural ability but he needs some coaching up in that department because he misjudges some deep balls. However, Gene loves contact and he is very willing to run up to the line and blast an o-lineman to get to a ball carier.
This year for Colerain, Gene has scored 3 TD's off of INT returns and he has returned one very long punt for a TD.
Based on athletic ability, it would be hard to give ANYBODY that nod over Tyler Moeller in that department..but I have to admit that Gene is just naturally gifted.
In terms of football presence and strength and awareness, the edge goes to Moeller...but this is Gene's Junior season..by next year he will be the best football player to ever come out of Colerain.
and to the person who posted that hope went out the window last summer: I believe in somebody's thread back in july, I posted that Gene had received an offer from tsun..but I wouldn't count him out, just yet. Gene is an impressionable young kid (aren't they all???) who just doesn't know anythng about OSU...YET. He's never been on campus and he doesn't know what our fans are like and how they support their team. I am willing to bet that if OSU could get Gene to Columbus, he could/would be blown away. So, I'll keep working the kid everytime I see him...because this kid (bold prediction coming) will be playing on Sundays in 5-6 years. |
Ah ha! I was wondering what number he was. I can't remember what I said about him in the Colerain/Tyler Texas game thread, but I KNOW that I mentioned him. I thought both Pride (I believe? the QB) and Moeller had better games, but but he was next in line and was very impressive. He had one big play in particular... it was either a huge hit or an interception... maybe it was both! haha
Correct me if I'm wrong here H&G, but from what I've heard, seen, and know about Eugene, I would (unfortunately) compare him favorably to Prescott Burgess. Same sort of size and attributes, same sort of athleticism, almost same positions too (though not sure if Burgess was a KR/
PR/WR)! Hopefully that comparison doesn't jinx us, because I would love to see this kid lining up for us.
Get this kid in S&G, H&G!!
