2008. Thought it’d be one for the ages.
Spoiler alert: it wasn’t.
2008
The class ended up being #1 overall with several guys as top100 national prospects: DT Marcus Forston, LB Arthur Brown, CB Brandon Harris, WR Aldarius Johnson, S Ramon Buchanan, LB Marcus Robinson, LB Jordan Futch, WR Tommy Streeter, LB Sean Spence. Who all projected to be superstars only a few of these guys were productive…
Miami Northwestern had just won the national championship and Booker T Washington finished as a top team nationally as well. We got about a dozen recruits from those two schools alone. Jacory Harris was the most prolific QB in Dade history with All-American honors.
The craziest part at one point in time we also had CB Patrick Johnson/Peterson committed for a long time he was considered to be the best player in Broward, DB nationally and defensive player nationally that year.
We also had RB Bryce Brown who was the younger brother of LB Arthur Brown committed at this time as well. He was ranked by rivals as the #1 overall player in the nation in 2009.
At this point in time it looked like we were in the process of assembling the next national championship team. But Peterson flipped to L$U last minute. Arthur Brown transferred out and Bryce never came. Also of note we signed 8 players from one high school and didn’t sign LaVonte David who ended up being the best from that MNW group. Randy Shannon was a horrible coach and never developed the amazing talent he acquired.
