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Originally Posted by Cannon Shell
At what? Reading and writing?
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Knock his intellect all you want - but keep in mind - he went to a very dumpy high school in the chemical valley region of West Virginia.
He's uncommonly smart for a person from that area.
As an example, his highschool basketball teammate at DuPont was none other than "white chocolate" Jason Williams. There's a real genius for ya!
Here's a clip of them playing B-Ball together:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xJruS...eature=related
It shouldn't come as a surprise that Moss was the star of that high school basketball team. He was a two time West Virgina state basketball player of the year, while on the same team as a future NBA rookie of the year runner-up. He also won the McDonalds slam dunk competion.
Further, according to stuff I've read and heard, there were multiple MLB scouts who had said that they fealt Moss was the best teenage centerfielder they had ever seen. Some thought baseball would be his best sport.
Not that being an elite prospect at football, baseball, and basketball was enough - he was also a brilliantly fast record setting sprinter.
It had to be Lou Holtz's sickest day as a college coach when Notre Dame revoked his scholarship offer after an infamous high school fight he got in. Notre Dame would have been a machine with him.
He only caught 54 TD's in just two college seasons at Marshall.
* His team was 13-0 his freshman season, and his 28 TD receptions tied Jerry Rice's 1-AA record for TD's in a season. He had 9 catches for 220 yards and 4 TD's in that years D-1AA national title game.
* His sophomore year, Marshall made the jump to D-1, his team went 11-3 and he was a Heisman finalist inspite of almost never playing on TV. He caught 3 TD's in a MAC championship win - and had 173 recieving yards against Tommy Tubberville's Ole Miss team in the Motor City Bowl.
He also averaged 34.6 yards per kick return - and as of last year - the award for the nations best kick returner is named the Randy Moss award.
It is beyond remarkable how the most can't miss athlete in sports history wasn't drafted until the 21st pick!
I should probably stop - as everyone finds my man crush on Moss beyond sickening.