At 4.49 Irons has great speed, especially for such a big guy.

The 4.49 laser time came from the second article along with a 4.22 shuttle and 32 vertical jump.  Note that ESPN shows a much slower time of 4.73. Let's hope the 4.49 is right.

Sports, Eh? reports that Maleek has chosen Ohio, and mentions that he also had offers from Akron and Nevada, and he had one from Portland State, too. It also mentions that the last player from that high school to play football in the US is expected to be a 5-7th round draft choice this year for Oregon. The fact that he is likely to play early at Ohio was a factor in his choice. Here's another article on his choice, complete with this pic:

Could be a little of both.

Bad parenting.   (just kidding)

The only times I remember actually seeing Canadian/American games were when a Canadian team would play at Amanda Clearcreek.  To put it as polite as possible, even a school as small as AC (DV at the time) played at an entirely different level.

However, after watching the video posted, I have to agree with others that the kid has all of the intangibles there.  He also seems to have athleticism and size, which are not coachable things.  It's just going to be a matter of him getting up to par with ball at the highest level in college (as do all other incoming frosh.)  Getting this kid was a great add and it nearly perfectly rounds out this class.  It'll be very interesting to see him in Green and White.

Is Amanda Clearcreek still dominating folks? My high school played them in D5 Playoffs back in 1999 and lost in the first round. We were happy we lost to an eventual state champ with D1 college talent on it. We also kept the score the closest than anyone else they played in the playoffs.

I'm a 2000 AC Grad. Although I was Basketball/Golf/Baseball.

Football program declined big time when Ron Hinton left and went to coach Chillicothe. I remember hearing that AC won more games in the 90's (maybe it was some other 10 year period in about that era)than any other school in the state at any level. From what I hear now, they are pretty average. My good friend and College roommate, Scott Hinton, was the QB for the 2001 State Championship team and nephew of Ron. He's the Varsity girl's basketball coach at Alexander now. Doing good things there.

For the Canadian team they played in 2000 (think the other was in 99), they were atrocious. I think it was 80+ to 0. The Canadian football team actually came down early and went to school with us that Friday. It was really strange.

I've always believed the advantage AC had at the time was the youth program which was in place before anyone else and was ran from the top. They ran the same plays with the same calls from grade school through HS. Now the other programs in the MSL have caught up and passed AC since those programs are all much bigger in size and now have the same youth programs. Also, open enrollment didn't hurt as a couple players from other schools transferred strictly to play football.

Also, the only D1 talent from the state championship years was Dan Davis who committed to EMU and I think washed out before his Freshman season even started. He wasn't exactly college material.