UF QB Tim Tebow

[OH10]

This guy is a stud, but I wouldn't count on it for OSU. Look for him to stay in Florida with one of the big 3.

[Bestbuck36]

309 yards in the first quarter is freaking sick!!

I couldn't do that on xbox.

[DaytonBuck]

he got a commitment from a 4 star Florida QB Josh Portis.

Josh Portis is from California and brother of former Cane Clinton. He wants enroll early for winter semester and I think Kansas State is his numer one now. I don't think there's much of a chance that he ends up in Gainesville.

[daddyphatsacs]

I think with Meyer landing in Florida, that probably makes them the frontrunner early on. This kid seems to fit the mold of a Meyer QB, a good passer, and a good runner. But then again, he fits the mold of any head coach's qb if he throws for over 300 yards in the first quarter.

[Buckskin86]

OFFENSIVE PLAYER OF THE YEAR: No record safe in the Tebow Show

Junior is compiling some outrageous numbers at Nease, with more to come.

Then the head coach of the Lakeshore Renegades, Hess decided to put 11-year-old Tim Tebow under center for the first time.

The leadership skills required for the position suited the youngster. The offense, with current Lee High standout Craig James handling the rushing load behind Tebow, led the youth squad to the doorstep of a national championship berth. Tales of Tebow's relative exploits at that level make more heads shake than even those of the modern-day Tebow, who claimed 2004 Times-Union All-First Coast Offensive Player of the Year honors.

"Once we got his mechanics down, I would make him put one knee on the ground and see what he could do from there," said Hess, now an assistant coach at Mandarin High. "And the first time he tried it he throws a spiral 35 yards in the air. Less than a year later, he was throwing 45 yards doing the same thing."

Hess believed his eyes, yet knew he would never see another 11-year-old with the same gift.

And still today, Tebow shows a similar trend of vast improvement over short periods. As a 6-foot-2, 210-pound 10th grader last year, he threw for more than 2,000 yards in only nine games, around 300 of which came on a leg fracture that Tebow refused to afford a mid-game X-ray. The fracture was discovered a day later, after Tebow had finished a painfully gutsy effort to beat Menendez.

For this year's encore of the Tim Tebow Show, he grew an inch, added 10 pounds, and roughly doubled his yardage to 4,286, a state record. He rushed for nearly 1,300 yards, grabbing another state record with 5,572 total yards.

Much the way Fletcher running back Ciatrick Fason once positioned the prep record books for his signature by posting big statistics early in his career, Tebow's curve suggests no state passing record could be safe from his 2005 finale. Barring injury, the Nease junior's third and final season could bury his own records beyond the reach of future area quarterbacks for decades.

The Tebow file
School: Nease

Class: Junior.

Size: 6-3, 220 pounds.

Resume: Broke state records this season for total yardage (5,572), and passing yardage (4,286). ... With a year of eligibility remaining, Tebow is already the area's all-time leading passer with 6,480 yards. ... Also rushed for 1,286 yards and led the Panthers to the deepest playoff run (third round) in school history.

http://jacksonville.com/tu-online/highschool/

[Hubbard]

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He had crazy stats this year, 4304 yards passing with 46 TDs and 1272 yards rushing along with 25 TDs on the ground!

Going to be attending elite 11 QB camp and has definite interst in OSU. He was up here for the PSU game and Coach Tressel was at his school two weeks ago.

[wadc45]

HH said to look for Tim to come up to OSU for camp...

[scooter1369]

I'm from Volusia County just south of him. I'll get a read from my buds down there. Maybe Coach Maronto can give me some scoop.

[jimotis4heisman]

theOSU could have a nice little camp on there hands this summer, kirbus, miles, hartline, tebow (how about the kid from newark too, huffman i believe-all state if i recall)

[bobcat84]

Hakes and Devlin (PA) hopefully will be in Cbus over the summer...

[OH10]

Maybe they will be calling the OSU camp the "Elite 11" camp next year

[Hubbard]

Looking around - Tallahassee

Posted on Wed, Jan. 26, 2005

... Looking around

FSU won't sign a quarterback this year. However, that's OK since the current junior class is said to be loaded nationally with talented quarterbacks.

And one of the country's best is Tim Tebow of Ponte Vedra Beach. Tebow, a 6-foot-3, 220-pounder, finished this past season with a state-record 5,576 yards of total offense and finished third in the state's Mr. Football voting behind Pahokee tailback Antone Smith and Lake Gibson quarterback Matt Grothe.

Tebow has already made unofficial visits to Ohio State, Georgia, FSU, Florida, Tennessee, Miami, Notre Dame and Michigan.

Tebow threw for a state-record 4,304 yards and 46 touchdowns to lead Nease to an 11-2 record and the Class 3A regional final, losing 35-28 to St. Augustine. Tebow, who also rushed for 1,272 yards was featured in a recent edition of Sports Illustrated in "Faces in the Crowd."

"I try hard and I think I bring a lot of toughness to the team. I try to be a leader," Tebow told Scout.com ...

[Bestbuck36]

I've got to stop reading this thread it makes me salivate too much. I would imagine Troy Smith's michigan game appeals to Tim Tebow's athleticism. He could do that every week with the firepower we are building in Columbus.

[Highstreet]

Scout $

“In the ninth game of his sophomore season, we were down 17-0 and he was sacked and he came out of the game. He said ‘coach, my leg is really hurting.’ I said to him, ‘Timmie, you’ve got to toughen up. This is what great players are made of.’ ”Timmie goes back in the game and throws for 300 yards and ran in a 29-yard touchdown to tie the game. After the game we have him x-rayed and we find out he’s got a broken leg. It wasn’t a hairline fracture, it was a jagged break.

Tebow grew up a Gator Fan. His Mother and Father are alumni, and his brother attends now. He currently is in a program that runs a similar style of offense. Even though he is a Gator fan Tebow says he will be open-minded in selecting a school. Tebow has 7 current scholarship offers(schools not listed).

[Holy Buckeye!]

Are these Stats for real? Either this kid is playing against weak competition or he's the second coming of John Elway.

HB