Carver-Columbus DT raves about former teammate Isaiah Crowell
Isaiah Crowell has “left the building” at Carver-Columbus High School, awaiting the opportunity to save the world at UGA.
Crowell left behind plenty of talented teammates at Carver-Columbus, which is known for producing college football prospects on an annual basis. Carver had 20 seniors sign last Febraury and expects another strong batch this year.
One of Carver’s top 2012 prospects is Derious Bennett, a 6-foot-1, 275-pound defensive tackle who said he has around a dozen offers, including Arkansas, Wake Forest, Tennessee, Southern Miss, Duke, Houston and Marshall.
Bennett has nothing but praise for his former heralded teammate, Crowell.
“Isaiah is an amazing football player,” Bennett said. “He has tremendous character and is real humble. I think Georgia fans are going to be excited about what he does for them this season.”
Asked if there was anything that Georgia fans would be surprised to learn about Crowell as a person or football player, Bennett replied, “No, not really. Isaiah doesn’t leave much to figure out. He speaks his mind about things. He was a great leader for us, with both his actions and his words.”
Back to Bennett: He visited Southern Miss and Auburn this summer, along with attending camps at Wake Forest and Duke. He is favoring Southern Miss, but will likely wait until the middle or after his senior season to make his college decision. He is happy with his list of offers, but wouldn’t mind being evaluated by UGA, Clemson and Florida.
Bennett has a 3.0 and plans to study Marine Biology.
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236 comments Add your comment
JB
July 29th, 2011
10:17 am
Hootie, from Greenwood ,SC was the Chairman at the time of Spurrier’s hiring, a lot’s of speculation about that, but the National even put out a press release saying it wasn’t so.
South GA Dawg
July 29th, 2011
10:17 am
If you worry about our RB our QB will eat you alive and he is always a threat to run. UGA all the way to the dome this year.
Nothing Could Be Finer
July 29th, 2011
10:22 am
There’s no reason to worry about your RB.
LOL
Patrick
July 29th, 2011
10:22 am
Wow, I knew SC fans were delusional, but Nothing could be finer takes the cake.
DawginLex
July 29th, 2011
10:23 am
Nothing could be finer
Crowell skipping workouts?
Are you there in Athens?
You read the report from the 1st day where he threw up.
Later reports are of him being at all the workouts and fully participating and showing amazing athletic skills in drills with the other players during player led workouts.
You don’t know what you are talking about do you?
Nothing Could Be Finer
July 29th, 2011
10:25 am
Yea, I thought I was delusional when I saw Lattimore break like 478 tackes against Ga last year, but it turned out to be only 239.
Back To Back for the Garnet and Black
July 29th, 2011
10:27 am
You puppy fans need to go ahead and get your order in for Tums or Rolaids. Carolina’s D will be ready for your back and forth Lb’s/rb’s. Dawgs will need all the field goals they can get since they fold in the red zone. oops its another F U M B L E by the dawgies……….
Gene Chizik
July 29th, 2011
10:27 am
56-18
56-18
56-18
Destin Dawg
July 29th, 2011
10:28 am
Gamecocks… Chickens… Poutry… Fowl… Hens… Roosters…. cocks…. too funny !!
DawginLex
July 29th, 2011
10:29 am
Lattimore gets sucker punched versus East Carolina
Doesn’t even play versus UGA
Spurrier forced to let drunky boy throw it all over the yard
4 Interceptions
9 Sacks
Dawgs Roll 38-3
LoL
July 29th, 2011
10:30 am
Only a SC fan would beat their chests after a 9 win season that ended with 2 losses. Get real… SC is in for a rude awakening this year.
Back To Back for the Garnet and Black
July 29th, 2011
10:30 am
Classic Munson ” They Broke our hearts” “Bennet that big back went over into the endzone and broke our hearts”….
Nothing Could Be Finer
July 29th, 2011
10:31 am
Only a Ga dog fan would wish that Lattimore gets hurt vs East Carolina.
LOL
Back To Back for the Garnet and Black
July 29th, 2011
10:33 am
ooops another fumble at the one yard line by the Dawgs!
DawginLex
July 29th, 2011
10:34 am
Yeah and all the SC fans on these blogs predicting Murray would get hurt and be out of the game by the 1st quarter isn’t the same thing?
Pot, meet kettle
DawginLex
July 29th, 2011
10:36 am
Bottom line is spurrier hates UGA yet he is only 2-4 against them at SC
He couldn’t beat Richt when Richt was OC at FSU either.
Now he has his best team at SC ever and he is so desperate that he is letting a 5 time suspended drunk QB come back and play becuae he has no chance without him.
Back To Back for the Garnet and Black
July 29th, 2011
10:37 am
2011 football …. Two in a row over the Georgia Bullfrogs and three in a row over the Clempson Tigers. How sweet its gonna be!
1eyedJack
July 29th, 2011
10:39 am
We just got to remember not to eat the bones.
JB
July 29th, 2011
10:51 am
Wonder if Garcia can stay sober and out of trouble before they play us. I would hate for the league office to have to step in and say, Steve, enough is enough. Course, I hope the QB coach doesn’t drive him to the meeting, just say’n.
Old Flatulent Dawg
July 29th, 2011
10:51 am
Nothing Could Be Finer….choking your chicken again, eh!!!!
JB
July 29th, 2011
10:52 am
I hope we beat them with a 57 yard field goal with 2 seconds on the clock….. The visor would never recover, LOL
JB
July 29th, 2011
10:53 am
Beating a cock never gets old……….whoops…….that didn’t sound right…LOL
@back to back
July 29th, 2011
10:54 am
The only thing carolina does back to back is lose 5-6 games ayear, not appear in a major bowl, not finish in the top 10, not win a conference championship, they been doing that back to back for over 100 years.
JB
July 29th, 2011
10:55 am
Anybody that serves yellow BBQ can’t be right.
DawginLex
July 29th, 2011
10:57 am
I haven’t been to Williams Brice in over 20 years. They still have the jail under the stadium?
Used to be if you got caught drinking, they were judge and jury right there
JDawg1785
July 29th, 2011
10:57 am
True, JB, that stuff is HORRIBLE!
Old Flatulent Dawg
July 29th, 2011
10:58 am
Back To Back for the Garnet and Black…….46-15-2….you’ve got the Dawgs shaking in fear…..at the rate SC wins we’ve got nothing to worry about
St Richt
July 29th, 2011
11:02 am
Why not interview somebody who would give us an honest opinion about IC ? Crap interview w his BFF. Really?
Back To Back for the Garnet and Black
July 29th, 2011
11:03 am
@old poot dawg…….. this aint your daddy’s SC team either. Clempson people said the same thing last year. guess what? We whupped them tigers in their backyard last year just like we gonna do to the puppies this year. Get out your Rolaids!
St Richt
July 29th, 2011
11:05 am
That’s definitely the first time I’ve heard the words “character” and “humble” to describe Crowell.
Randall "Pink" Floyd
July 29th, 2011
11:12 am
Everybody who follows college football, UGA fan or not, know that George Rogers was one of, if not the, most undeserving Heisman winners, ever.
GeoffDawg
July 29th, 2011
11:15 am
Wow…bragging about a winning streak against Clemson! Might as well talk about your winning percentage with teams from Conference USA to boot.
GeoffDawg
July 29th, 2011
11:17 am
It’s commonly accepted knowledge that Herschel would’ve won the Heisman in 1980 were it not for the bias against underclassmen. Objectively, HW had a more impressive season.
Joey
July 29th, 2011
11:17 am
Crowing (pun intended) about being the only 9-5, 5-3 (SEC) team ever to win the SEC East?
Congrats. Great job.
Tossed Salad
July 29th, 2011
11:19 am
It certainly is a testament as to how far the Dawgs have fallen in recent years that so many of you guys are having these discussions with lowly South Carolina. I mean, seriously – South Carolina?
Joey
July 29th, 2011
11:20 am
GeoffDawg, you probably shouldn’t have made the joke about Conference USA . . .
Soulja Boy
July 29th, 2011
11:22 am
Nothing about Crowell is humble, but SEC defenses are going to teach him some humility.
Bazooka Joe
July 29th, 2011
11:24 am
Finer – have to disagree, I dont think there is anything weaker in the world than SC HS football, heck the Atlanta Y team could beat most of the SC HS teams.
GeoffDawg
July 29th, 2011
11:26 am
Joey, you probably have a point but I don’t know any Georgia fans that are going to brag about last year’s 6-7 debacle. The bowl game was an embarrassment, no bones about it.
Football Insider
July 29th, 2011
11:31 am
Sick of hearing all this crap about Crowell.
Carver, what is his former teammate supposed to say? “Crowell sucks. He’s a terrible teammate. Georgia got a real loser.”
You can do better than this. Sick an tired of hearing about a guy who has yet to play a down of college football. It’s a tired and beat to death story. Let it go. Go do something productive, like not writing another “Crowell is going to be great” Story.
DawginLex
July 29th, 2011
11:32 am
Tossed salad
what was the score of the SC/Florida game last year?
AdMan
July 29th, 2011
11:35 am
pensacola dawg…I just double checked with a friend of mine in Augusta who happens to be an Augusta National member….Spurrier IS NOT a member….probably won’t ever be one either with an old Bulldawg Billy Payne as Club Chairman.
The Diesel
July 29th, 2011
11:40 am
Majority of these Cock fans are SUCKERS.Will refrain from putting the two together.Maybe you guys can read between the lines.
Joey
July 29th, 2011
11:43 am
Glad to hear that AdMan (and JB).
I bet it sticks in SOS’s crawl that he can’t get in.
Great coach, but a snide sob.
yo mama
July 29th, 2011
11:43 am
yo, cock fans you forget alot. Last year, you didnt whip UGA. they beat themselves with redzone turnovers. i think the margin was like 7 or 8 pts. not a whipping if you ask me. and we were a sub 500 team last year. why dont you win something first. then run your mouth. thats how it works in college football.
beebee
July 29th, 2011
11:45 am
all this fussin’ and fightin’, and both teams S.U.C.K.!
Go Jackets!
71 Dawg
July 29th, 2011
11:51 am
A play I can’t get out of my mind – Garcia throwing the ball into his own end zone. . .
Tech76
July 29th, 2011
11:52 am
Walker? The greatest running back in history of college football? I don’t think so. I seem to remember a certain Barry Sanders that was much better than Walker. Yet if you talk about most rushing yards you have to talk about Ron Dayne. Walker was a great running back, but he was not the greatest.
BG
July 29th, 2011
12:04 pm
GO DAWGS!!
Tossed Salad
July 29th, 2011
12:05 pm
Most would disagree with you Tech76. Not just UGA fans.