His three children range in age from 8 to 11. Not to be outdone, Valdosta would come back with its own persona to counter the country boy image of Lowndes. A couple of students jumped in the water and secured the ship so that it would not float over to the shore.. The talented running back rushed 21 times for 414 yards and 6 TDs, leading Lowndes to a 71-35 victory. Valdosta High School 4590 Inner Perimeter Road Valdosta, GA 31601 Phone: (229) 333-8540 Fax: (229) 333-8584. Breaking down Vaughn Grissom trying to replace Dansby Swanson at shortstop. He spent much of the camp working with Valdostas current quarterbacks, Mike Turner and Alfrie Johnson. I just take it as a huge honor., Created by Ellen Kennerly Made with Squarespace, 2022 Georgia High School Football Daily. Id be interested to know how hell react, though.. Partly cloudy skies this morning will become overcast during the afternoon. No wonder Buck eyed. 1. Its a good feeling knowing you represent Valdosta. I was always a fan of the top players and programs and curious about the way they did it, what scheme they were running. Billy Henderson [Clarke Centrals coach] called three straight timeouts and iced the kicker. If you are a good ole boy from the South, it's going to be hard to find a better name than Buck Belue. I admired these athletes. He finished ninth in the Heisman trophy voting in 1979. Even on a business trip in a remote Caribbean country, it followed the former. Old Friends . . He came through for me on that, which was huge.. I was blessed with this great coaching. [Belue passed for a state-record 5,214 yards and won two region titles in his four Valdosta seasons. The interview below follows the Four Questions format, along with three bonus questions with Belues thoughts on making the Hall of Fame (induction is Oct. 22), his most memorable high school game and how coach Wright Bazemore made him a quarterback. Sports Illustrated said last fall . Chuck Knoll's Steelers were champions and as. He also added 1,487 rushing yards and 87 passing or rushing touchdowns. He came in from West Rome with the idea of running the wishbone like he was doing in Rome, and I was coming over for spring football as an eighth grader, and it wasnt a couple of months later we were back for preseason practice, and he was totally shifted to the Bazemore offense, as we called it. But the current Wildcats still know who he is. That first Valdosta game with Wilson as coach of the Vikings didnt lead to a win, but the effort was there, and it signaled that things were going to be different. Sales have picked up over the summer as Belue often with family in tow has embarked on a book-signing tour around Georgia and in Bulldogs strongholds outside the state. The book has become a family affair. They were running the same sets and plays. Valdosta missed a two-point try in the third quarter and a 31-yard field goal with 1:23 left. We got the ball with about three or four minutes left inside our own 10 and drove down to the 1-yard line with like two seconds left. Andrews signed with Auburn and rushed for 1,347 yards in three seasons playing in a backfield with fellow Georgia backs James Brooks and Joe Cribbs. He won state titles in Alabama at . Larry Kinnebrewrushed for more than 1,000 yards as a fullback and was the dominant force defensively on East Romes 15-0 Class A champion that shut out nine opponents and held four others to seven points or less in 1977. The stunning 93-yard touchdown pass from Belue to receiver Lindsay Scott with 1:03 remaining gave the Bulldogs a 26-21 victory. The Valdosta High class of '78 alumni are listed below. In 2007, the AJC ranked him the No. The following year, he put up a career-best 714 rushing yards. Ive known Coach Tomberlin for a long time. Wild Concerts: Park releases show schedule, EDITORIAL: Wild Adventures makes 2023 plans, Suspect arrested in Valdosta shooting death, Celebrating Ms. Jeanette: Tree planting honors Coody, Pepsi honors Stronger Together recipients. The coach it was John Lastingers dad, as a matter of fact they installed this tight end-around pass, and I ended up leading the league in passing. [John Lastinger followed Belue as the starting quarterback at Valdosta and at Georgia. However, this week in anticipation of his new book "Inside the Hedges," Belue took to Sirius XM's SEC This Morning to share a story from his . NewsBreak provides latest and breaking news about Buck Belue. We had a fellow by the name of Freddie Steedley who had a mule, and he agreed to put on the overalls and straw hat and ride the mule out to midfield before the game, Prince said. This biographical article relating to an American football quarterback born in the 1950s is a stub. Credit: Photo by Chris McShane (provided by Buck Belue). One of the motivations for doing the book was to talk about Valdosta High School and the football program through the years, and Ive had so many people, whether theyre Bulldog fans or not, ask questions about how Valdosta won all those games. Guy Belue is on Facebook. 2 in the state in Buck's senior season. [Johnson scored on a 68-yard run on the final play of the first half, then threw a 28-yard TD pass and a two-point conversion in the final seconds for a 26-26 tie. I was in the office when Joe Wilson threw his keys on Nick Hyders desk and told him, Coach, we are going to whip your [butt] when you come to our place in two years, and thats exactly what happened, Baker said. 2. VALDOSTA - Former Georgia Bulldogs quarterback, Buck Belue, will be doing a book signing at Salty Snapper on Friday, June 17. He won 12 of his 18 games against Valdosta. The first part of the book is my journey through Valdosta and the secrets to all the winning. Among the sanctions . In some cases, the insults would turn from verbal to something more physical. Thats the way it was at Valdosta. But it was more than that. Four other ex-Georgia players helped Belue at the camp. Buck Belue was born and raised in Titletown, USA also known as Valdosta, Georgia. Lowndes athletic director Danny Redshaw said things have calmed down considerably between the two sides today, but there was a time when the Winnersville Classic put both Lowndes and Valdosta on high alert. We had a Valdosta booster, Charlie Whetherington, who knew a pilot, and they flew over a Valdosta practice the week of the game against Lowndes and dumped those flyers. For twenty years, he co-hosted Buck and Kincade mostly during mid-days with John Kincade. Georgia quarterback Buck Belue got things moving for Georgia in the second quarter, engineering a scoring drive in only four plays for a 14-3 lead. There was a golf tournament involving fans and coaches from both teams. Who are some of the great players you saw from your era or before? He was the best in the business. I remember Stanley Bounds. 1 recruit in the country. With Coach Hyder, you just couldnt imagine anyone working harder than him to be successful. We just rolled with it and said the timing is the timing. Former receiver Lindsey Scott, who lives in Valdosta, former linebacker Keith Middleton, a longtime Valdosta High assistant coach, and former quarterbacks John Lastinger and Greg Talley helped out. The problem was the plane didnt get low enough, and the wind blew the flyers all over the neighborhood next to the practice field.. The first time I played quarterback was in the eighth grade. I basically wrote it on a Word document with the help of an editor, Belue said in a telephone interview this week. You also talk about the other coaches at Valdosta, especially offensive coordinator Joe Wilson, who later became Lowndes head coach and led the Vikings to a 1980 state title, and Jack Rudolph, Valdostas longtime defensive mastermind [and father of Georgia Tech and NFL player Coleman Rudolph]. Hopefully the renewed interest in the program would spill over and may have people interested in what happened in 1980.". Buck Belue is best known as the quarterback who led Georgia to its 1980 national championship, but he was widely known before that as a high school athlete. So the Viking flag flew high and proud over the Valdosta stadium property, for at least a little while.. I was wise beyond my years because of them. In three high school seasons, Andrews rushed for 4,252 yards, averaging 7.2 yards per carry, and scored 58 touchdowns. Then, Prince said, prior to the 1979 game, Lowndes was warming up in their traditional crimson jerseys. He had everybody running the same offense so that by time you got to middle school and high school, you didnt have to learn any of it. The student then greased the entire flag pole from top to bottom, ensuring that it would not be very easy for Valdosta High maintenance to climb up to detach the Viking flag. The timing was awful, Buck Belue writes in his new book, Inside the Hedges. Most of the players thought it was a selfish move to even do an interview. To join the mailing list, click here. I talked with Coach [Jim] Hughes about that later. Seeing Andy Johnson in 1969 was one of my first recollections of high school football [at the 1969 Class 3A championship game between Athens and Valdosta at Cleveland Field]. 1 high school football player of all-time in a 2007 article. We sort of fell into it. Mark Lemke joins me. He's the host of the Buck Belue Show on Atlanta sports radio's 680 The Fan every weekend from 10:00 a.m. In the 1977 game, there were no fights, but there was a bounty placed on Buck Belue not to hurt the Valdosta QB great, but to take a piece of his number 8 jersey off his back and to the Lowndes sideline. And when it came to recruiting, he was the only coach I felt like I could trust with the baseball thing. The Georgia High School Association has levied a $7,500 fine against Valdosta High School, ordered the Wildcats to forfeit seven victories from the 2020 football season, banned the team from . The Georgia football team had just put a bow on an undefeated regular season with a resounding 38-20 win over Georgia Tech in 1980 when the players awoke the following morning to news that coach Vince Dooley reportedly was leaving to become coach and athletic director at Auburn. Host of Buck's Beat podcast. One of their defensive linemen, Charles Bergman, got hold of Bucks jersey at the sleeve, and ripped it right off his back, Lastinger said. Buck Belue (Buck Belue) "Tell us about "Inside the Hedges," Jim said. 4 Georgia high school football player of all time. He set Georgias career rushing record of 6,137 yards. Tevin Tisdale in the 2018 game, said MacPherson. The quarterback thing happened late for me, and it was Wright Bazemore that told the middle school coach to move me to quarterback, so I owe much of my football success to Coach Bazemore for having the insight to get me over to that position. We had weight limits, and if you weighed a certain amount, you couldnt play in the backfield, and I was a bigger kid then. 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Martin brought in Wilson for an interview after hearing that the coach was not exactly happy with the Wildcats at the time. [3], Belue also lettered in baseball all four years at Georgia. But that was about to change. The Bengals drafted him in the sixth round of the 1983 NFL Draft. Today's interviewee is Buck Belue, sports talk show host for 680 The Fan, quarterback for Georgia's 1980 national championship team, four-year starting quarterback at Valdosta, inaugural. Prince said thats when Joe Wilson decided he would accept an invitation to go over and meet with Martin. Kinnebrew signed with Georgia but transferred to Tennessee State. They hear about Herschel [Walker], Coach Dooley, Erk Russell, Buck Belue, and there were just so many guys that played a big part in the championship, and it really gave me an opportunity to really brag on them, which was a real motivator, too.". Generally, they build in signings around their everyday lives. Lowndes came back with, My heroes have always been plowboys.. This University of Georgiarelated article is a stub. ET to 11:00 a.m. He was drafted by the Chiefs of the NFL and the Cleveland Cavaliers of the NBA. 2. Baker said the bands from both schools began joining forces on the field before each game and would play the National Anthem together. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it. Because official statistics are not required or maintained by any state organization, the records that we display here come from individual schools and from media reports, primarily newspapers. The quarterback thing happened late for me, and it was Wright Bazemore that told the middle school coach to move me to quarterback, so I owe much of my football success to Coach Bazemore for having the insight to get me over to that position. [Johnson scored on a 68-yard run on the final play of the first half, then threw a 28-yard TD pass and a two-point conversion in the final seconds for a 26-26 tie. 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