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Austin Hooper All State - yvonne - 02-05-2013
If it were a player from any state other than Florida, Texas, or California, I'd say "big deal," but this kid's from De la Salle, so it is a big deal.
http://www.paloaltoonline.com/news/show_story.php?id=28428
Note that his All-State honor was for DEFENSE - Redrum - 02-05-2013
Which says a lot about his athleticism and skills, but it also shows what lots of other evaluators and coaches think: Hooper is a DE in college. But Stanford is listing him at TE initially. If Smythe had committed to Stanford, we might have seen Hooper listed as a defensive recruit. Maybe.
Anyway, one of the guys who actually knows the game [ is a working football coach] rated all the players in this class in a Bootleg post. Of our three TE recruits [ Hooper, Cotton, Taboada] he rated Hooper as the best, most ready to play in 2013. Gave him a 60% chance of playing as a freshman, mostly because his blocking experience and skill are pretty advanced. Also noted that Hooper is not flat-out fast, but has a burst of speed that gets him open.
Re: Austin Hooper All State - washingtonismoney - 02-05-2013
Chip wanted Hooper as a TE. If our guys want someone as a TE, and Chip wants that same guy as a TE, then as far as I'm concerned he's a fine TE prospect.
Re: Austin Hooper All State - washingtonismoney - 02-05-2013
Chip wanted Hooper as a TE. If our guys want someone as a TE, and Chip wants that same guy as a TE, then as far as I'm concerned he's a fine TE prospect.
Re: Austin Hooper All State - washingtonismoney - 02-05-2013
Chip wanted Hooper as a TE. If our guys want someone as a TE, and Chip wants that same guy as a TE, then as far as I'm concerned he's a fine TE prospect.
Aw,c'mon - Redrum - 02-05-2013
I never said he wasn't a fine TE. Neither did the coach I cited, who thinks he likely to play as a freshman. He's no Coby Fleener and maybe not Zach Ertz, although I don't know where Ertz sits on the TE Speed Scale.
Re: Austin Hooper All State - washingtonismoney - 02-05-2013
Not specifically criticizing you -- sorry if it came off that way. Just wanted to point out there were a number of coaches that liked him as a TE.
(Though an interesting side note: I remember Shaw said last year sometime....He was was asked in an interview, "How do you find these athletic TEs?" And he said something like, well, it's hard -- but if you can convince them, a DE is an excellent way to go. We've done it with Kaumatule, we're going to do it with Hooper, and we wanted to do it with a recruit we missed on, Jordan Sherit.)