northshore fans and otherwise

[Northshore Stang Parent06]

Setting aside the 03 state champs what year comes to mind as the best northshore varsity team.Lets keep this inside the last 15 years

[KT2000]

1996 hands down. 2001 after that.

[t00 playa]

1996 hands down. 2001 after that.


agree 1996 was good enough to win a title.... but just didnt work out.. but they definitely set the stage for the program in the years to follow... mostly in the expectations department.

ced cormier is to this day...was the fastest highschool football player i have ever seen play...

[Northshore Stang Parent06]

agree 1996 was good enough to win a title.... but just didnt work out.. but they definitely set the stage for the program in the years to follow... mostly in the expectations department.

ced cormier is to this day...was the fastest highschool football player i have ever seen play...


cormier was very fast but i think last years gilliam would have to be the fastest hands down

[t00 playa]

cormier was very fast but i think last years gilliam would have to be the fastest hands down

cliff gilliam was a speedster as well..... both were talented football players blessed with track speed that combination will put them in an upper class of players...

but ced was unbelievable, there was another reciever that was a speedster but i cant remember his name... he caught the long 75yd bomb from ced cormier in the final minutes of the game to beat baytown lee one year....95 or 96, cant remember

i bet pearland last year would agree that gilliam was fast... :D

[KT2000]

Chad McCullar probably has a case also, but from what I understand Cormier was timed in the 4.2s by college scouts. That's ridiculous.

Chykie Brown hand timed at 4.37 during this past off-season...without shoes (or any other kind of footwear). Don't ask me why. Regardless, that's pretty funny.

[farmerfan]

I have heard nothign but great things about that 96 Shore team. I remember when the playoff brackets came out in 96 2 there were 2 teams that scared me and they were Duncanville and North Shore. You guys had a great first 4 weeks in the playoffs then ran up against the upset minded Judson Rockets. I would have loved to see the Mustangs and Farmers hook up in the state title game in 96. That said, beating Judson for the state title in 96 the way we did is what put us on the map in the state.

[nsmustang]

Gilliam was unbelievably fast. His only problem was not being able to break outside often enough but brother when he did, he was gone. I think the 96 team overall might've been better but the 2001 team had an unstoppable offense. Were it not for V Young, I would love to have seen them play Westlake that year. I just figured they would run every opponent in the ground by outscoring them. They did have a shot at winning the Madison game with a minute left but it was not to be.

LaPorte is coming to the Big House tonight thinking they'll take Shore down.
They must be on drugs..................

Also, I was shocked at the lopsided Lewisville score that year. What a team they must've had.

[ThEgReAtOnE]

Not even close...1996 was awesome!!

[farmerfan]

Also, I was shocked at the lopsided Lewisville score that year. What a team they must've had.


We had a special team that year, we're not so special now, so anytime I can talk about the past i will. That year we had 4 1000 yard rushers and a top 5 metroplex defense, we defeated 5 district champs in the playoffs including two undefeated teams to open with, we won our semifinal matchup against Killeen Ellison 49-0 in which we totaled over 500 yards rushing and held them under 180 total yards. We had a option offense that was on par with any spread attack you see today, it was difficult to stop and had the chance to break the big play at any given time. For some reason, I have always believed had we played North Shore it would have been a much closer game than it was with Judson, but that is just intuition. I was glad to see yall go all the way in 2003, yall had been the program on the verge of greatness and finally reached that status in 03, and it seems as if nothing has stopped yall since.

[eingedikid]

1996 without a doubt. I'm still amazed we (Judson) managed to pull the semi win off at Rice. If that game had gone for five quarters the result may have been different, since Judson held their own in the first half, then had the breakout third quarter, with NS kind of regrouping late and actually outgaining Judson yardage-wise by the end of the game, if I remember correctly. Judson's speed took it to NS for three quarters, and then I think the NS size and the speed they had started to have the Rockets figured out somewhat by the fourth quarter and, like I said, go five quarters and the ressult may have been different----or, if Judson hadn't come ready to play and had not stayed with it for four quarters, the result probably would have been much different.

Even if Judson had cratered in the second half, that first half was for me a defensive gem and a very fascinating chess match of field position between two great teams.

[Big Daddy Cool]

The 96' team was without a doubt the most talent ladden team we have ever had. Almost every memeber of the defense were D1 prospects as was most of the offense. And they did pile up quite an impressive amount of yards on both sides of the ball. Had they shown up the way Judson did that day at Rice I think that game could have easily been one of the best games ever. Though Judson came out swinging and delivered a blow that is took us almost three quarters to recover from. Had we gotten past Judson and went on to face Lewisville I really think that game would have been something special.