It was the biggest signing day group that I have been around in my short time covering high school sports and the biggest for Denison head coach Cody White in terms of Division I prospects.

"It's a lot of pride," White said. "Not just for them but for all our kids. They're going to recruit kids from teams that are winners and we've had that the last couple of years."

There may be a chick-and-egg theory to that statement but consider this -- of the six Yellow Jackets signing, none was the two-time first-team all-state selection, which signifies how good and deep this senior class was.

Even Aaron Morrison and Cody Reeves, the two non-Division I signees, cracked wise about how good their were. (And they were, as honorable mention all-staters).

"Me and him didn't go to know big school but we did our part in high school and now we're going to do our part in college," Morrison said.

They sat side-by-side at the Denison ISD Service Center (the DHS athletic offices were too small for this gathering) ready to move on to the next level.

Be sure to read all the stories in the paper and online for each individual signing, or the combo story in the case of the Kansas pledges, but I asked them what was the one thing they would take from their time at Denison, either on or off the field. Here's what they said:

"Us beating Sulphur Springs after them beating us two years in a row," D.J. Jones said. "We got our revenge."

"The friendships we made," Jordan Taylor said. "It was a fun ride we went on."

"How close we were," Jimmay Mundine said. "Some people only saw us on the football field but we're together 24-7. We had more than a football relationship. We had a brother relationship."

"The game against Marshall. Second half," Jaqwaylin Arps said about the Jackets' comeback victory in the region semifinals. "Some people were with us and some people wasn't but we stepped back on the field as one."

"Me and Ty (Carter) broke a toilet," Cody Reeves said. "Actually it was Ty who broke it. We taped up the sides and then just waited. No one noticed until the water came flying out everywhere."

That final quote summaries this senior group perfectly. They were always ready to joke around and have fun as kids are wont to do but when they stepped between the lines they were all business. In the case of the these six and potentially a few more in the coming weeks, the word on the field and in the classroom has allowed them to have further life experiences.

"Now it's their turn to do something with it," White said.