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Glenville Pipeline

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Cornerback6

Cornerback6

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Just curious as to if any of you know of any highschool program in the U.S. that channels as many quality D-1 recruits into any college program like Glenville does to tOSU?

The amazing amount of talent that surfaces at that school is incredible..and the fact that they continuously choose tOSU is just a blessing for us.

Could there possibly exist another highschool pipeline as giving and glorious as Glenville to tOSU? I think many of us take it for granted. I know I don't. :biggrin:

IMHO...the best pipeline in college sports. But like I said...IMHO.
 
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Honestly, the best thing about the Glenville pipeline is not that they choose OSU, but that they sincerely believe that OSU is their best chance to succeed...Ginn Sr does a helluva job with those kids, but there is no way he'd steer them to OSU without a guy like Tressel and the support he provides here

I dunno if they have a pipeline anywhere, but I've noticed Mission Viejo has a ton of top talent
 
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Mission Viejo & Long Beach Poly are two highschools in California that pump out A LOT of D-1 talent. Not sure of the numbers, but both of those schools are scary good and have been for quite some time. Glenville is a relatively new name in that department, but they certainly churn out the prospects as well.

I'm sure someone out there with more knowledge and computer savvy could look up which schools produce the most college talent.
 
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Miami has about 5 guys from Carol City (including Willie Williams).

FSU has about 5 from Tallahassee Lincoln (inlcuding fred Rouse).
 
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jwinslow said:
he was talking about channeling prospects... I doubt Glenville is the only D1 factory around, however it might be the most exclusive for one team.
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I know what he meant. Glenville has sent how many players to tOSU? 7-10? I was saying those schools are D-1 factory type schools also & may have sent large numbers of players to various schools. USC, Cal, UCLA have probably all rec'd a large number of recruits from those schools. Probably should have explained that better in my original post; I just did not feel like typing too much at the time.

I will agree though, that is does seem to be somewhat exclusive with Glenville that the best prospects they have go to OSU.
 
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In 2002 (pre-USC "dynasty"), USC had four out of five D-1 recruits from Long Beach Poly sign letters of intent with them. To have that many D-1 football recruits from a single school is crazy (of course, this is Long Beach Poly we're talking about...), but for one school to sign that many in one single class is rediculous. This was my first thought when I read this thread

By the way, the Long Beach players involved were 4* RB Herschel Dennis (USC), 5* DL Manuel Wright (USC), 5* DB Darnell Bing (USC), 5* OL Winston Justice (USC), and 5* TE Marcedes Lewis (UCLA- the one defector).
 
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BuckTwenty said:
In 2002 (pre-USC "dynasty"), USC had four out of five D-1 recruits from Long Beach Poly sign letters of intent with them. To have that many D-1 football recruits from a single school is crazy (of course, this is Long Beach Poly we're talking about...), but for one school to sign that many in one single class is rediculous. This was my first thought when I read this thread

By the way, the Long Beach players involved were 4* RB Herschel Dennis (USC), 5* DL Manuel Wright (USC), 5* DB Darnell Bing (USC), 5* OL Winston Justice (USC), and 5* TE Marcedes Lewis (UCLA- the one defector).
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Holy crap. That has to be the most impressive single class I have ever seen. Every single one of those players has panned out very very nicely.
 
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Long Beach Poly currently has over 50 players on NFL rosters, the most of any single high school.

A handful of high schools have a half-dozen or more starters on NFL rosters:

William Raines High in Jacksonville, Fla., Torrey Pines in San Diego, Ely High School in Pompano Beach, Fla., Glades Central in Belle Glade, Fla., Long Beach Poly in Long Beach, Calif., and Thornton Township in Harvey, Ill.

So, of the six, three are in Florida, and two are in Southern California. There is something to be said for the staff being able to grab a recruit out of Belle Glade every year or so.

I don't know of any other high school-to-college pipelines that are active today that rival Glenville to Ohio State in terms of their exclusivity, but that's only because I don't know how the high schools above are distributing their athletes. If anyone has the SI Exclusive subscription, there was a feature story on Long Beach Poly back in May of this year that might list the football alum and where they went to college.

Historically, the nearest thing that rivals what's occuring today that existed in the state of Ohio -- you'd probably have to go back to the 70s when Gerry Faust was at Cincinnati Moeller and was steering all his kids to Notre Dame. They won five state championships in six years, and after Notre Dame had taken all the players, they took the coach too.
 
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About 7 years ago I read in SI that long Beach Poly had put 51 kids in the NFL. To put that in perspective, about the same time I read in a pregame build up for the Canton McKinley /Massillion game that the 2 schools combined had put 49 players in the NFL.

One more LBP point of note, while watching a documentary on Snoop Doggy Dog (LBP grad) they showed a shot of the football team the year Snoop graduated. Surprisingly there were less than 50 kids on the team. According to the show, in the 10 years following, over 50% of the team was either dead or in jail.
 
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Brian Ellis, Avery Atkins and Jon Garner all committed to UF from Mainland (Daytona Beach) in two years. Significant, because the last Div1 talent from that school was Phillip King in 1987, who went to FSU, and immediately got booted from the team after a bar fight his freshman year.
 
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