Fred White

[GVF]

Lotta football in S. GA. All of my Daddy's side of the family are from Waycross.

Griffin plays in the N GA class. I think we got reclassed into S GA once 15 years ago maybe but not for long. Only 30 or so miles south of the Atlanta airport. We normally play teams like Newnan, LaGrange, Jonesboro, Riverdale, Fayette County. the amount of high schools added around Atlanta pushed several of our schedules into a more central GA schedule, but we seem to have settled back into our traditional line-up.

 

[GVF]

COach Bazemore and the Valdosta Wildcats.

Valdosta has seemed to have yielded to Lowndes Cty of late. The were bad boys under the old coach. 24+ state titles. They aren't feared like they used to be.

 

[JacketVol]

Valdosta has seemed to have yielded to Lowndes Cty of late. The were bad boys under the old coach. 24+ state titles. They aren't feared like they used to be.

I know but once they were crazy good.

 

[GVF]

I know but once they were crazy good.

You ain't kidding my friend. High schools that want to think they are national dynasty's need to look no further than Valdosta before they put themselves in that category. The long arm of their success IMO still reigns. It would take along time for schools to surpass them. And they are still very good. Just not quite who they were under Bazemore.


All time record 936-236-34 (thru 2017)
Natty's - 6
State Title - 24 (2016 most recent)
Region Title - 42
2008 ESPN Title Town winner.

They had a downward spiral in the mid-90's to mid-2000's or so. Seem to be recovering. They followed the 2016 title with a 4-7 record last year. Even under Bazemore, they were kind of a 2 seasons on, and 1 season off kinda team. Reloading I guess.

These days, South GA is hard to rule with the likes of Colquitt, Lowndes, any of the Warner Robbins teams, and a few others. South and Central rural GA has nothing to live for except HS football.

 

[mlodmkr]

Nothing unusual about that. I remember names of people on the early Doug Dickey teams far better than most Majors or Fulmer teams. That's just a fact of life; one day you are a student at UT and all things UT stick - a few years later and you are working, taking care of family matters, and football may be important but so many other things are more so. Then there are the lost years - overseas in the Army and no real links back to UT football.

So the rest of you remember Dewey Warren, Austin Denny, Steve Delong, Jack Kiner, Richmond Flowers, Bob Johnson, David Leake, Curt Watson etc off the top of your head; because I can promise Fred White didn't ring a bell with me either.

I remember all of them,,,,and Fred white

 

[GVF]

I remember all of them,,,,and Fred white

Fred White could have been a 6 time pro bowler and first ballot HOF. But, D4H wasn't sound then to propel Fred with his talent evaluation.

 

[Plano Vol]

Thank u AM64, I'm 65 been around a while but don't remember as much as once did..

just don't admit on this board that you've forgotten about Cooter...............

 

[VolSoldier4lyfe]

Man Fred White use to Lay that wood. One of my All Time Favorite Vols.

 

[JacketVol]

Nothing unusual about that. I remember names of people on the early Doug Dickey teams far better than most Majors or Fulmer teams. That's just a fact of life; one day you are a student at UT and all things UT stick - a few years later and you are working, taking care of family matters, and football may be important but so many other things are more so. Then there are the lost years - overseas in the Army and no real links back to UT football.

So the rest of you remember Dewey Warren, Austin Denny, Steve Delong, Jack Kiner, Richmond Flowers, Bob Johnson, David Leake, Curt Watson etc off the top of your head; because I can promise Fred White didn't ring a bell with me either.

Saw Bob the other day at Aubrey’s. Good guy.

 

[JacketVol]

Fred White. One of several UT players from the great Griffin High School in Griffin, GA. Willie Gault brought several with him (Vic Vandergriff and a couple others in 1979). that opened GHS to several Ut recruits over the years. Now that GHS has worked through their downturn and returned to state powerhood the last 5-10 years, maybe UT should reopen that pipeline.

GHS has somewhere in the neighborhood of 50 NFL players that passed thru that high school. And some father some combos. Jesse Tuggle of the Falcons, whose son went to the Texans several years back.

3 of the 4 Treadway brothers went on to MLB at some level. Jeff, the most famous. Stan tore a knee debuting on the mound for the Expos, while Phil never made it out of the minors.

Pruitt needs to return to Griffin.

Signed...Proud GHS alum.

Griffin Bears