[Bob Seger]

[quote=Emmit Brown]Jude is actually 5'9" probably closer to 5'10" and weighs 170 right now due to wrestling and having to cut down. Last summer he ran a 4.5 40 at UK which is the last known 40 I've heard of him running. I also know a lot of schools have shown interest in Jude. His strength is something almost unheard of, but I spoke with a person on the staff and told me that Jude was benching 365lbs., dead lifting 465lbs. for 4, power clean is pretty close to 300 (might be over 300, been a while), and squats in the high 400's. As for where he is going to end up, I'm not quite sure...he does have A LOT of interest in wrestling from Va Tech and a few others, but he also has interest from some D1's for football also. Whatever the boy decides to do is totally up to him, and I know that myself, along with the rest of the community, will be very supportive of his decision.[/QUOTE]


The bolded is the mature way to look at this issue. Personally, I couldn't care less whether he is D1 material or not. The kid is one heck of a high school football player who plays with a lot of heart and desire. That's enough for me.

Want to venture to guess that those that are the most vocal message board experts on deciding a players prospectiveness are probably the one's who either never played or were not very good to begin with. lol