#Bailey base professional#
Louis before his professional career abruptly ended the night of Nov. Louis, Los Angeles, Dallas, Green Bay and Jacksonville.īailey played three years in St. Smith performed admirably in last night's 17-16 victory over Denver on Monday night football, the quarterback completing 17 of his first 18 passes and finishing with a pair of touchdown throws.Īustin is still hanging on in the league as a member of the Buffalo Bills' practice squad after spending the last nine seasons in St. The Mountaineers averaged 504.9 yards per game with their catalysts being Smith at quarterback, Austin at slot receiver and Bailey at outside receiver.Īll three are being inducted into the WVU Sports Hall of Fame this weekend. That 2012 season was like no other in terms of offensive football for West Virginia. Tavon Austin (14 catches for 215 yards) and JD Woods (13 catches for 114 yards) also had big days, as did quarterback Geno Smith who completed 45 of his 51 pass attempts for 656 yards and eight touchdowns. "I saw them flash his stats on the video board, and I'm like, 'I've got to keep going,'" Bailey said. The two teams combined for 67 first downs and more than 1,200 yards of total offense.īaylor's Terrance Williams caught 17 passes for 314 yards and two touchdowns. The final score was West Virginia 70, Baylor 63 in one of the most amazing football games ever played at Milan Puskar Stadium. I'm having fun, I'm getting a lot of targets, but I could barely get a break because Baylor was scoring the same amount of points." "We wanted to jump in and make a big splash and let the whole Big 12 know we were there. "Our first Big 12 game wasn't just very important for us as a team, but for the whole fan base," Bailey explained. "Well, I was blown away thinking, 'Wow, this guy is running up and down the field' so there I was dreaming."ĭreaming, of course, of doing something similar. "The week before the Baylor game, SportsCenter was highlighting a receiver from Arkansas (Cobi Hamilton) who had a 300-yard receiving game," Bailey said. He wanted to know who those other good guys were out there. Bailey's amazing 13-catch, 303-yard, five-touchdown performance against Baylor in 2012 was the result of some avid SportsCenter watching. I would look at the stats of the players in Dade and Broward County to see who was leading, and I just tried to make sure I was either one, two or three."Ī few years later, on a much bigger stage, Bailey continued to do it at West Virginia University. "I was always undersized as a wide receiver, so I needed to play bigger and put up better numbers than some of these guys that were around me that may have better intangibles as far as size goes. "I've always been a competitive person," he recalled Monday afternoon.
He always wanted to know where he stood with them. – When Stedman Bailey was playing at Miramar High, he used to go online to look up the stats of the top wide receiver prospects in Dade and Broward Counties.
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