What Happened to Every 1981 McDonald's All American 

Haha, I plan to keep mentioning that as I go, but you're right, I should've said something here!

Thank you sir. I enjoy your content. Keep up the good work 👍🏽

Go South Jersey!

The best conference in the 80’s.

They had an ESPN Contract before those three. Most of the Big East teams were already good. Georgetown went to the elite 8 the year before Patrick..

@@teeerealsirrdee Georgetown went to the Elite 8 in 1979-80. Two years before Patrick Ewing. 1979-80 was the first season for The Big East. 1979-80 was the first season for ESPN. Neither was established yet. ESPN showed highlights and odd sports like Frisbee Throwing & Horseshoes

@@mongoslade277 are you stupid or just this damn slow? They had an ESPN DEAL BEFORE ANY OF THESE GUYS SIGNED. BETWEEN GOOGLE AND EVEN THE 30 FOR 30 THIS WELL DOCUMENTED. AND THE YEAR BEFORE IS IE THE YEAR BEFORE HE SIGNED. LET ME HELP YOU THEY WENT TO THE ELITE EIGHT IN 80. EWING SIGNED IN 81. SEE HOW SIMPLE THAT MATH IS???

I plan to go through them all. At least the one's that make sense. Hard to do a "Where are they" for the 2023 class haha

Fair criticism! I do try to keep it moving so that I'm not blathering on about the really really great players for a long time and barely touching the guys who didn't make it. You could spend an hour talking through MJ, Big Pat, and probably even Mullin alone, but I want to give everyone a roughly equal time in the spotlight, which probably does the top-end guys a slight disservice. No disrespect meant though!

@@RickyFrech404No worries! Appreciate the response. Like I said, I like your videos on these former McDonald’s all American teams. All the best. Keep them coming!

Alot of people front on Ewing. He never played with another HOF player and that's a shame. The Knicks wasted his prime years surrounding him with players past their prime.

i feel you pal. Im from the same school. I remember Marcus Liberty was so hyped up and went to Illinois.I remember when hustling to get that mag gave you the goods on hoops and everybody wanted the goods first.

With the 1 and dones we don’t feel like we know the players

@@amancalledhawk5575 And the transfer portal isn't making it any easier.

@@amancalledhawk5575 That is the truth. No longer drafting on whether somebody can play but drafting on potential instead. To guys like us the players are strangers in a sense.

And it has made the NBA weaker...my opinion. ​@@amancalledhawk5575

Haha, that's a good story about MJ's mom. Thanks for sharing!

Villanova shot 90% (9 of 10) in the 2nd half.

@@sareight You're reading stats. I saw the game on April Fools Day 1985. VILLANOVA DIDN'T MISS A SHOT IN THE 2nd half. It was scored wrong. They counted a blocked shot as a missed field goal. Everything Villanova shot at the rim went in

As a big east and Georgetown Hoyas fan I watched Mullins, Wennington, Pickney, and Ewing four years, unheard of in today’s game. By the standards today none of them would have played past their Jr year. Regarding the Villanova upset, as good as they played it could have been avoided however John Thompson was stubborn and arrogant. He wanted to beat Villanova at their own game. Having already played two very close games v the wildcats, conventional logic would have been to go more up tempo..like they did to beat St John’s three times. But no, Thompson let Villanova slow the game down and stubbornly sat in a zone defense. Georgetown went 9 deep and could have simply wore Villanova down playing a up tempo game mainly because Villanova only played 6 players most of the time. Probably one of the worst displays of coaching I have seen.

@@Biggdoom344 Agreed. Just like Georgetown beat St John's 3x that season, St John's beat Villanova 3x that season by playing uptempo. Styles Makes Fights. John Thompson was full of himself in this period. He learned the hard way

@@mongoslade277 I’m not sure he ever did if you at his Olympic team selections and the fact the #1 seeded Hoyas in 1989 almost lost to Princeton in a similar fashion.He chose Stacy Augman ,Dan Majerle, Willie Anderson, Charles Smith of Georgetown, and Bimbo Coles over Danny Ferry, Sean Elliott, Jerome Lane, Steve Kerr, Mark Macon, and Fennnis Dembo. The international game is about offense not defense.

Can't believe Buzz Peterson beat Jordan out for Mr Basketball of North Carolina. Peterson only started his sophomore year at UNC. Wasn't even in the rotation his senior year

​@@mongoslade277MJ had a lot of " slights" his senior year. Didn't make any of the 6 teams in Street and Smith magazine and got robbed of the MVP in the McDonald's game when he clearly should've won. No wonder he took things personal

@missayawk 😂😂😂. Makes sense why Jordan always dominated Adrian Branch when he was at Maryland

3 members of the 1992 Dream Team, this has to be the best class of the 80s

​@@Chck314All 3 of those members made the 1984 Olympic team also. The last 🇺🇸 amateur team to win the Olympic gold medal

Yeah, it's sad how many of those stories there are. I don't think he was as highly-touted in high school, but Reggie Lewis is somewhere on that list too

Straight up poliTRICS. The game was played in Wichita ( Sherrod's hometown) and Morgan Wooten was the chairman of the McDonald's game committee and also Adrian Branch's HS coach. As unbelievable as it may be now MJ was just a country bumpkin from N.C who came out of nowhere the summer before his senior season ( dominated at Five Star camp at 2 separate sessions) and these guys were ranked ahead of him entering this game. The committee probably thought Sherrod and Branch had better projection to be pros than MJ and when voting for MVPs of this game it looks better years down the line to say " NBA All Stars so and so were former McDonald's All Americans" . I'm sure this SNUB fueled MJ more than the cut from his HS team, but ironically I've never heard him talk about it. A formal apology should be issued by that committee. I heard his mother wanted to go after someone and had to be restrained from going onto the court because of this total disrespect. This could never happen today. If I could meet MJ this would be a conversation I would love to have with him. How does the first person to score 30 points in this game AND hit the game winning free throws not win MVP? HOW????

Wait, is this real?!

​@@RickyFrech404😂😂. Najera of Oklahoma is the only Mexican player I've heard of. Eduardo Najera. Some people say Mark Aguirre is Mexican though

meh

I read that about Dreiling! Should have included it.

😂😂. Now that you mention it Niguel Miguel looks familiar. I think that's him in White Men Can't Jump. Funny how I did Not recognize Marques Johnson in that movie. "Pretty Ricky Is What They Called Him". Those were the days

Niguel Miguel was Flight in White Men Can't Jump. He was Duane Martin's partner

@@mongoslade277 My man Mongoslade. What's good my dude?

@missayawk Now THOSE are some fun facts. Wouldn't have recognized Niguel Miguel in that Martin episode until you mention it. Martin is on Netflix. Gotta watch that episode now. Not sure if he got a credit but Freeman Williams was in White Men Can't Jump too. He was either King or Duck Johnson in that last game. His partner was the lead singer of The Temptations after Dennis Edwards

The most intimidating college player ever. You could see the fear on non Big East schools when they face Georgetown and when Michael Graham got on board they became the scariest front line along with a smaller version of KD named Reggie Williams.

@@missayawk I still think if Graham, would’ve played the next season maybe we would’ve won back to back.

@@missayawk It was nothing like the city(dc) in the 80’s because of a lot of things!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Anthony Jones was prolly great im not debating that. I respect his rep but a ranking is nothing more that a persons opinion.Everybody and anybody has one and if the platform is right they seem to always mean more than they really should.

@@ram0666 He from the city(dc) and was ranked higher than Jordan. That's not my opinion it's factual.

@@hgm38 I never said it wasnt fact. I just said the people that did the ranking gave their opinion. Not saying dude wasnt better but rankings sometimes can be suspect.

​@@hgm38Actually quite a few players were ranked higher than MJ, at least prior to the start of their senior year.

@@ram0666 I know that.

Keith Lee was a Great player. I thought Sam Perkins was the 1st 4x all american in college. It was Keith Lee

Yeah, someone else pointed it out that snubbed is probably the wrong word. I'll probably change it to "missed the cut" or something like that in the future because I want to highlight some of the stars that didn't make it briefly

Joe Dumars wasn't even Mr. Basketball of Louisiana his senior year. That was Benny Anders. Snubbed is a good word

Ennis Whatley, Bobby Lee Hurt, and Alphonso Johnson were at least 3 guys ahead of him. But Barkley says when he played against Hurt in some tournament he more than held his own and was more confident that he could play in any major conference.

@@missayawk ironically they didn't guard each other.