Joel Goodson
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Joel Goodson
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'26 Olney kid, 6' 7" 270:
That kid is a freshman?
That was my thought as well when I saw it. Kid looks more like a 1st year NFL player than a 1st year high school player. I agree with the other posters- if he keeps putting in the effort and pushing himself, he'll be a 5star recruit. Kid's a beast
Yup. Cant wait to get out and see him in person. Probably gonna go check out the week 3 matchup against Chatham Glenwood.
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Starkville pipeline:
Solid list. Would prefer to see some of the top '25 in-staters, especially the DL's, but can't be to greedy
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can I like this twice?
Hope they can hang on to him.
New Rivals 250 out for '25 class
8 in-staters in the list, including 6 in the top 150
8 in-staters in the list, including 6 in the top 150
Nebraska TE Arik Gilbert arrested for felony burglary after allegedly robbing liquor and vape store
The former 5-star recruit had 35 catches as a freshman at LSU before spending two seasons at Georgia and then transferring to Nebraska in the offseason.
www.yahoo.com
Kid went from a a 5 star recruit playing for LSU during their national championship to Georgia to Nebraska hoping for a wavier to play to legal trouble
Just shows being a 5 star doesn’t mean success
So sad, another victim of a crippling vape addiction
Nebraska TE Arik Gilbert arrested for felony burglary after allegedly robbing liquor and vape store
The former 5-star recruit had 35 catches as a freshman at LSU before spending two seasons at Georgia and then transferring to Nebraska in the offseason.
Kid went from a a 5 star recruit playing for LSU during their national championship to Georgia to Nebraska hoping for a wavier to play to legal trouble
Just shows being a 5 star doesn’t mean success
Don't know if you're serious or not. Sounds more like some unspecified mental health problem. Lot of that going around these days.
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And all six of those 4 star guys have had multiple visits already to Champaign with the exception of one who hasn't visited anywhere.New Rivals 250 out for '25 class
8 in-staters in the list, including 6 in the top 150
This is just so refreshing and validating to see the high end in-state talent finally, consistently having Illinois in the mix. Next stop is consistently landing a handful of them and if 8+ wins starts becoming the standard around here it's going to happen organically. Really feels like we legitimately have something repeatable going for the first time in fifteen years.
Illinois will be miracle workers if we land Epenesa
Live in the metro STL area and this kid is a beast already. AJ went to Iowa and middle brother Eric is currently at Iowa. Family is very pro-Iowa......hey we all have our flaws
He just got offers from USC and Texas this week alone
(Forgot to mention father went to Iowa as well)
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yeah it's nice to see that the staff has been here long enough that they are now forming relationships with these kids early.
I'm sure we won't get all or even most of them with blue blood heavily involved, but the fact that a lot of the '25 kids are DL/edge could help us if we can win and the law firm & Jacas/Coleman/Bryant dominate like they're expected to.
Chatham alum here. Please report back on how he fares against us. Chatham’s defense is a lot better than Southeast’s, but I can guarantee you Chatham doesn’t have an athlete like that on their roster. He will probably be focus of most defensive plans soon enough.
Will do. I agree, if he shreds Chatham for big yards he is the real deal. They are usually coached up really well.
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Former Illini Miles Osei's Kankakee team won their opener against defending 5A champ Nazareth Academy. His first year there. Must have some talent on that squad.
He was pretty good at Prospect Heights too iirc.
I mean Elk Grove
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