His coach says he calls them "the local schools" probably because of the fact they are in the Big 12.
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Family carries Dorial Green-Beckham to the top
BY BEN FREDERICKSON ? [email protected] | Posted: Sunday, July 31, 2011
Hillcrest junior Dorial Green-Beckham carries the ball down-field during a game against Marshfield on Friday, October 22, 2010. Nathan Papes/News-Leader
SPRINGFIELD, Mo. ? The numbers can measure size, speed and statistics.
Six-feet-six inches and 220 pounds. 4.37 seconds to run 40 yards. 181 receptions, 4,120 yards. 51 touchdowns.
The numbers show why Dorial Green-Beckham, the wide receiver from Hillcrest High School in Springfield, is at the top of every Division I college football team's 2012 recruiting list.
But the numbers can't fully explain how the 18-year-old got to where he is today.
To understand that, start before recruiting experts compared him to Randy Moss, before college coaches swooned at the thought of signing him and before grown men gossiped about where he will go. Start when a seventh grader named Dorial Green moved in with a family named Beckham.
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Schoch: DGB, Springfield win Week 1
12:00 AM, Aug. 29, 2011
Matt Schoch
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Dorial Green-Beckham. Eighteen catches for 284 yards and three touchdowns later, and the ESPNU audience had been proven of his worth.
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After catching a pass, Hillcrest's Dorial Green-Beckham goes in for a touchdown against Seneca on Saturday night. / Nathan Papes / News-Leader
swopes6;1976398; said:I'll definitely have to drive across town to see this kid play sometime. Not sure if it was posted but rumored that Charlie Weiss came up to Hillcrest and visited. Would be amazing to see this kid in Scarlet and Gray!
dkbuckeyes;1977008; said:I used to live in West Plains. Do you know if Hillcrest plays Mt. Grove or West Plains this year. I would think that they play Ozark and the other big schools but Mt. Grove is pretty good. Just wondering.