“He was a big kid with good feet, but now he is a nasty lineman in the trenches and will finish you and put you on the ground. “He is a nice guy, but we have gotten him mean and meaner on the field,” Maupin said. Harris has always had size, but when he made that first start as a 13-year-old, he was mild-mannered. That’s what separates him from being just a big kid.” “He has great flexibility and mobility and can bend and squat in the weight room. “He is extremely fluid for a heavy individual,” Maupin said. lettered on the Arkansas defensive line from 2001-04, plays every snap on offense and defense, according to Maupin. “First, you have to start as a freshman and with him there has been some unique circumstances where he is playing in his third state championship game.” “That’s got to be close to a record,” Maupin said. Harris, only 17, started his first game as a 13-year-old freshman at Class 7A Springdale. It just means a lot, and we are focused on trying to win another one.” “I know a lot of payers don’t get to play in one.
“It means a lot to play in three state championship games,” Harris said. This is Harris’ third state title game, and he’s been a part of 49 wins at Robinson. Together they will try to win the school’s second Class 4A state title in three years when they play a rematch of their 2019 win against Shiloh Christian on Saturday night at 6:30 at Little Rock’s War Memorial Stadium. Maupin’s feelings aren’t hurt anymore as he serves as the defensive coordinator on longtime Senators coach Todd Eskola’s staff. Seven years later, Harris is 6-foot-7, 380 pounds, starting on the offensive and defensive lines for Joe T. The staff measured him anyway - 6-foot, 255 pounds. “I said, ‘That’s Elliott’s little brother - he’s 10! ’” “They were doing the heights and weights, and they look over at E’Marion and say, ‘What about that kid? ’” Maupin said. Robinson varsity football players, including his brother Elliot Harris Jr., on a recruiting trip to the University of Arkansas. Two years later, Harris tagged along with Maupin and a handful of Joe T. What was scary is that he was so big, but he could move like the other kids.” When we played football, he could catch and throw. “I had just finished playing college football, and I see this third-grade student who was bigger than me, and when we played basketball he posted me up and was quite successful. “At first, I was a little ticked off because an elementary child was taller than me,” Maupin said with a laugh.
Harris, an eight-year-old third-grader, was taller than the former linebacker Maupin, who was listed at 5-foot-10 (maybe a bit of a stretch) in his Bisons online bio. Maupin was fresh out of Harding University and teaching elementary school physical education. Brian Maupin won’t ever forget his first encounter with E’Marion Harris.
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