By: Chad Wilson – Editor – GridironStuds Blog Twitter: @GridironStuds Ask any hardcore football fan and they’ll tell you they love linebacker play. In recent years, the game of football has finessed itself into a padded version of flag football where-by quarterbacks and wide receivers rule the day. However, there are still some out there […]
By: Chad Wilson – Editor – GridironStuds Blog Twitter: @GridironStuds You’ve heard all of the stereotypes on football players. Get a guy in a big body and the automatic thinking is that all that time getting big left him little time to be smart. It takes a small mind to think that way but let’s […]
By: Chad Wilson – Editor – GridironStuds Blog Twitter: @GridironStuds Often times in the wonderful world of recruiting, the emphasis is on comparing a current player to one who had success in the past. Many times, those comparisons can be forced as “analysts”, reporters and bloggers feel it is absolutely necessary to engage in this […]
By: Chad Wilson – Editor in Chief – GridironStuds Blog Twitter: @GridironStuds You will often hear the term “broke his ankles” when hearing about a play that happened in the open field. There are some athletes on the gridiron that are uniquely talented in the area of juking defenders out of their socks and figuratively […]
By Chad Wilson – Editor in Chief – GridironStuds Blog Twitter: @GridironStuds You may have seen my article in entitled “Recruiting, Like Beauty Contests, Has A Lot to Do With Looks“. Yes, we live in a sporting world where size is king and athletic freaks are the craze at least until we are thoroughly convinced […]
BY: Chad Wilson – Editor in Chief – GridironStuds Blog Twitter: @GridironStuds Travel the state of Florida looking for talent on the high school gridiron and you will soon become overwhelmed. With that being the case, it is very easy to overlook talent that would smack you in the face in many other cities and […]