State record, Pennsylvania

And both he and the greatest running back ever (screw Emmitt; to me it's still Payton) played at a I-AA college. Granted, the times were different when Payton came along, but I don't think the powerhouses were beating down his door.

 

Agreed. And I just don't see the size concerns with this kid. It certainly isn't as much of an issue as it was with Jarvis.

 

I simply do not feel Young is a Division I back.
He is a product of playing at a small school. Put him in a big WPIAL school (Central Catholic, Woodland Hills, Gateway) and he might have half the career yards.

Some of the people mentioned above - such as Pryor - have skills that transcend any level. That said, Pryor would have been the best player on the field, at any level, in any game, in Pennsylvania last season.

IMHO, Young would not be the best back in many Class AAAA games, especially if he had to play WPIAL competition.

I am not making a "he's not good because he's a small school running back" claim. Instead, I am saying that he is not good because his talent and skill set would not transcend the bigger levels of PA high school football.

 

Rumors to the contrary, they do play football outside District 7.

 

Shhhh ... don't tell the Pittsburghers that.

How about if we put him at a big central Pennsylvania school like Cumberland Valley, Harrisburg or Bishop McDevitt?

 

FarmerJ: Nice call. [/ex-CNYer]

 

I heard many stories about him and I just can't fathom what that looked like. Having covered some Central New York football, the lowest classification is incredibly bad, many of those kids wouldn't make JV teams of even decent 'A' schools in Pennsylvania.

 

The small-school career I would have liked to have had a glimpse of?

Curt Warner playing lowest-class West Virginia high school football. That must have been a show every week.

 

Or Wilson-West Lawn, North Penn, Bethlehem Liberty, Parkland, Neshaminy. . . .

One of the best things I read in the Post-Gazette some years back was Mike White admitting that they play high school football just as well in the East.

 

We're going to have that Young vs. Barket match-up in the state semifinals next week.

Barket carried 42 times for 246 yards as Schuylkill Haven beat Riverside Friday night. He broke Austin Scott's single-season yards record with a 66-yard TD run in the first quarter and has passed 4,000 yards for the year.

 

Young got 352 in Steel-High's win over Bishop McCort. He had 203 by the half ... and they only led 6-3.

It occurred to me around midnight that our football tab covers were looking pretty good tonight: Young for the high schools, Shady McCoy for the college/NFL.

 

Though I'm a Pittsburgh guy, I spent a good chunk of my childhood in Hatfield, home of the Smiling Porker.

NP always seems to be a pretty consistent program out East. Go Knights!!! [/homer font]