Anyone think that our ****** public school systems might actually benefit our football program?
Just throwing this out there, so hear me out....or don't, its really 17ing long<div>
</div><div>After hearing Coach Wilson speak a month or so ago, I got to thinking that MSU football mayactually benefit from ourlargely pathetic public school systems. Coach Wilson spoke to something about how some guys come from such terrible public school systems that they literally have to start out at square-one in terms of overall footballdevelopmentwhen they get to campus. Conversely, he said that sometimes guys who come from excellent public school systems have alreadypeaked athletically, and while they are great HS football players, they are basically topped-out in their athletic development.</div><div>
</div><div>This lead me down a line of thinking that we (Mississippians) are sitting on a proverbial "gold-mine" of overlooked and woefully under-developed HS football talent in many/most regions of the state. I know this is basically common knowledge to most, but I'm taking it a step further. For instance, take a 3* recruit from some dirt poor, one stop-sign town that can barely afford chalk for its blackboards, much less an adequate athletic and Strength & Conditioning programs. Imagine if that same 3* kid grew up in one of the few thriving communities in this state that have plenty of money to support a top-notch athletic program. If he's a 3* with zero support, what do you think he would be if he had luxury of growing up and developing/learning/practicing in a primo HS athletic program?... I'd imagine that the undeveloped 3* would be at least flirting with a 4* status if he had the benefit of a good football program. </div><div>
</div><div>That said, if our HS kids had such access to great programs then they'd be much more developed players by their senior years, which it would be reasonable to assume that they'd be more highly ranked and publicized. But this would then lead to them catching the eyes of our neighboring competitors which would result in many more suitors for these players and/or much more aggressive recruiting tactics by the said suitors.... Resulting in many more and much fiercer recruiting battles, which would inevitably lead to losing out on more and more of our in-state talent.</div><div>
</div><div>An example of a potential situation like this that immediately comes to mind, but doesn't quite fit perfectly, is Kaleb Eulls. The dude'sDNAbasically demands that he be an SEC defensive lineman. And even though he was highly recruited, I wonder how good and more highly rated/recruited he would have been had he been from Madison. Instead at Yazoo County, he had to play both ways, not too mention he being theirQUARTERBACK at6'4" 260lb. I'd imagine he didn't exactly get the proper time and development to hone his D-Line skills and techniques, given that he had to orchestrate the offense.</div><div>
</div><div>Now, I don't know much about Yazoo County's football program, but the fact that they got absolutely throttled by much smaller MRA school/team leads me to believe thattheir football program was having a good day if they kept their player's shoes tied. No disrespect to MRA because they were very good that year, but they were a vastly smaller school compared to 5A (4A?) Yazoo County. Also, I'm sure MRA was fairly talented but the mere presence of Kaleb Eulls, alone, likely tipped the talent-scale in the favor of Yazoo County.</div><div>
</div><div>In conclusion, I'm thinking that many areas of the state are extremely fertile areas for the picking-up one of those unpolished, unrefined, "diamonds in the rough," so to speak. The talent is there, but the development is not, therefore they are overlookedoutright, or more likely, they are evaluated but significantly under-valued because they are so far behind than their peer recruits, developmentally. Basically, we are able to keep a lot of great talent from being swayed to the huge out-of-state programs simply because we retard theirdevelopment so much that no one has any idea how good they are or can be.</div><div>
</div><div>The End.... I thoroughly enjoyed picking my own brain to write this magnificent essay.</div>
Just throwing this out there, so hear me out....or don't, its really 17ing long<div>
</div><div>After hearing Coach Wilson speak a month or so ago, I got to thinking that MSU football mayactually benefit from ourlargely pathetic public school systems. Coach Wilson spoke to something about how some guys come from such terrible public school systems that they literally have to start out at square-one in terms of overall footballdevelopmentwhen they get to campus. Conversely, he said that sometimes guys who come from excellent public school systems have alreadypeaked athletically, and while they are great HS football players, they are basically topped-out in their athletic development.</div><div>
</div><div>This lead me down a line of thinking that we (Mississippians) are sitting on a proverbial "gold-mine" of overlooked and woefully under-developed HS football talent in many/most regions of the state. I know this is basically common knowledge to most, but I'm taking it a step further. For instance, take a 3* recruit from some dirt poor, one stop-sign town that can barely afford chalk for its blackboards, much less an adequate athletic and Strength & Conditioning programs. Imagine if that same 3* kid grew up in one of the few thriving communities in this state that have plenty of money to support a top-notch athletic program. If he's a 3* with zero support, what do you think he would be if he had luxury of growing up and developing/learning/practicing in a primo HS athletic program?... I'd imagine that the undeveloped 3* would be at least flirting with a 4* status if he had the benefit of a good football program. </div><div>
</div><div>That said, if our HS kids had such access to great programs then they'd be much more developed players by their senior years, which it would be reasonable to assume that they'd be more highly ranked and publicized. But this would then lead to them catching the eyes of our neighboring competitors which would result in many more suitors for these players and/or much more aggressive recruiting tactics by the said suitors.... Resulting in many more and much fiercer recruiting battles, which would inevitably lead to losing out on more and more of our in-state talent.</div><div>
</div><div>An example of a potential situation like this that immediately comes to mind, but doesn't quite fit perfectly, is Kaleb Eulls. The dude'sDNAbasically demands that he be an SEC defensive lineman. And even though he was highly recruited, I wonder how good and more highly rated/recruited he would have been had he been from Madison. Instead at Yazoo County, he had to play both ways, not too mention he being theirQUARTERBACK at6'4" 260lb. I'd imagine he didn't exactly get the proper time and development to hone his D-Line skills and techniques, given that he had to orchestrate the offense.</div><div>
</div><div>Now, I don't know much about Yazoo County's football program, but the fact that they got absolutely throttled by much smaller MRA school/team leads me to believe thattheir football program was having a good day if they kept their player's shoes tied. No disrespect to MRA because they were very good that year, but they were a vastly smaller school compared to 5A (4A?) Yazoo County. Also, I'm sure MRA was fairly talented but the mere presence of Kaleb Eulls, alone, likely tipped the talent-scale in the favor of Yazoo County.</div><div>
</div><div>In conclusion, I'm thinking that many areas of the state are extremely fertile areas for the picking-up one of those unpolished, unrefined, "diamonds in the rough," so to speak. The talent is there, but the development is not, therefore they are overlookedoutright, or more likely, they are evaluated but significantly under-valued because they are so far behind than their peer recruits, developmentally. Basically, we are able to keep a lot of great talent from being swayed to the huge out-of-state programs simply because we retard theirdevelopment so much that no one has any idea how good they are or can be.</div><div>
</div><div>The End.... I thoroughly enjoyed picking my own brain to write this magnificent essay.</div>
