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Let's see. At any given time a football team has 11 players on the field. While it's almost never the case at the high school level, let's say kids play only on defense or offense. That would mean a team has 22 different players as starters. Now add a punter and a placekicker. That makes 24, right?Well, that's exactly how many players from St. Thomas Aquinas High School in Fort Lauderdale put pen to paper on National Signing Day. And we're not talking a bunch of DIII schools. Nope. The list includes Alabama and South Carolina (two apiece), Miami, Oklahoma, Michigan, Wisconsin, Syracuse, Pitt, Kentucky, Vanderbilt and UConn among others.
Oh yeah . . .
The list also includes Dartmouth, which will be home to wide receiver Jamal Cooney. (In the interest of full disclosure, the QB is headed to Harvard ;-)
Now think about this. Given that there have to be very talented underclassmen at St. Thomas Aquinas, some of the two dozen kids who signed with colleges . . . probably weren't even starters on their high school team.
Any surprise that there were no fewer than 17 St. Thomas Aquinas grads on NFL rosters last year?
Find a story about the recruiting bounty at the South Florida powerhouse HERE.
Green Alert Take: How the heck did St. Thomas Aquinas lose two games last fall? (Central of Miami knocked the Raiders off, 43-27, and Lakeland beat them in the playoffs, 33-20.)
