Cam Akers Commits to Bama

[121Josey]

2017 RB from Clinton. #5 RB in the nation.

 

[jethreauxdawg]

Hopefully we can land him. That kid is unbelievably good. People in the Jackson area need to go watch him this year.

 

[DogNSuds]

Best I've ever watched in Clinton. You need to get out and see the kid play.

 

[patdog]

If he's better than Clarence McDougal was in high school, he's a beast. I remember the 1999 Madison Central - Clinton game. There were 8 current or future Dandy Dozen players in that game, multiple SEC / Big 10 signees, 3 who had solid NFL careers and 2 others who made it to an NFL training camp. Clarence McDougal was like a man among boys in that game. Clinton lost because MC simply had more players, but he almost single-handedly kept Clinton in the game.

 

[Col. Forbin]

Clinton lost because of a mouthpiece** Freedawg knows what I'm talking about.

 

[Xenomorph]

Clarence McDougal turned in the greatest performance in a high school game I've ever seen. It was in Starkville the Friday after Thanksgiving in '00. It had rained for something like 48 hours straight and stopped right before kickoff. The stat line of 38 carries for 320 yards sticks in my head, but I don't know that it's accurate. Also, by that game Clinton had already lost their top 2 running backs (one of whom, Coco Hodge was an incredibly gifted fullback at 6'1, 235 and eventually signed with us but never played because of a broken leg) and their quarterback (seems like he was a wrestler's son). Pretty much all Clinton did that game was snap it to Clarence and let him run. He made a couple of plays the following week in the championship game against Moss Point and Demarius Bilbo that were incredible.

He also had a punt return earlier that year against Warren Central that looked like one of Reggie Bush's high school highlights.

Man.. McDougal and Hodge together.. I sometimes wonder if both of them had come to school healthy would it have saved Jackie. It would have damn sure helped. They were special athletes.

 

[DogNSuds]

Was there for Walker, Hodge, and McDougal. I don't know if I would trade Akers for any of them. Remember, Akers is just a junior this year. Did what he did last year as a Soph!

 

[patdog]

Clinton's QB was Teddy DiBiase, son of the Million Dollar Man. Last I heard, he had gone into wrestling too. Was a pretty good HS QB, but I don't think he was ever a real college prospect. Madison Central and Clinton were loaded with talent back in those days.