McKenzie quits football team...
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The guy was a 4.0 student in high school if I'm not mistaken. School is not an issue with him he is a smart guy. Something must have gone down...
at least thats what I'm reading. I think he'd rather just be a normal student than put the 100 hours a week it takes to be a D1 football player.
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Idismissedthis pansy *** from day 1. Everybody here chastised me for saying that he would never contribute and he was academy trash. Well looks like he was. I knew he would never be worth a **** when that linemen from Auburn ate his soul on the 50 when they threw that throw back pass to Newton. Total waste ofscholarshipfrom the get go.
but, you know what, if he can't nut up and get excited about two more months of games, yes, games which is the best part, then quit and go home and don't let the door smack your ***. Quitting after three games, when you have an active role, when you are playing for the only SEC school who would give you a scholly, is ********.
Is Academy trash better than government school trash? What if the academy is Canton Academy, and the Government School is Madison Central? What if the Academy is Jackson Academy and the government school is Rosedale?
look, I think it is really ****** to quit at this point in the season, and unless he was struggling to make his grades, which we know is not the case, 17 him. But what does "academy trash" have to do with anything? Did some academy kid whip your *** one time or something? You seem to have a real hard on for academies.<div>
</div><div>And don't hurt your shoulder patting yourself on the back.</div>
</div><div>And don't hurt your shoulder patting yourself on the back.</div>
gov't trash is better than academy trash. in the 80's there wasn't an academy that could compete weekly with rosedale, leland, etc. One of the greatest linebackers out of msu told me, academy boys cant compete with public school kids, they dont have the speed as a whole. Look at the top sec teams, how many of the elite that play for them came from academies.
msudeltadawg1971 said:
As does Yazoo County with Kaleb Euells.
I don't know what the record is public vs private since they started, but I would bet it's at least around .500- which is a lot better than people expected.
Elite players? Well, Todd Wade played at Prep and was a first round pick. Will Overstreet was Dandy Dozen, and played in the NFL for a few years. Will Arnold from Centreville started at LSU, and their RB Stevan Ridley played at a MAIS school and he starts. Wes Shivers played a season for Benton Academy. Stewart Patridge came from Pillow, and Jonathan Nichols, who won the Lou Groza played at Pillow as well. Paul LaCoste came from Prep and almost made the NFL roster until he broke his leg. Reid Neely from JA started the past couple of years at Ole Miss.
Anyone that is objective can see that the academies can compete and put out good players.
But were is Patridge, Shivers, Nichols? My point is, public school ball is a lot faster pace, I played it, and have been watching my kids in private school ball and think theteam they play forwould never have a chance on the field against the school I went to. To win in the SEC you have to have great players, not good. Hell Todd Sandroni went to IA, Gary Abide ST. Joe, Marvin Courtney-St. Joe, where are they now. It took Todd 3 years to adjust to the speed of the SEC, Abide was ok, not great, Courtney who was supposed to be the greatest back out of ST Joe ever, signed with some school and you never heard from him again, even our own Perkins who went to St Joe was supposed to be great, when put up with SEC players hehas looked average. He may very well be the next great thing, I hope so, but the speed in academy ball vs public is very different, and on a weekly basis they cannot compete.
...schools, right?The MHSAA produces about 9 times the athletes that the MAIS does. They should. If they didn't, something would be wrong. I would imagine that MAIS collegiate student-athletes would be about 10% of the number from MHSAA schools. When the MAIS talent pool is 10% of the MHSAA, it stands to reason. Thepoint is: MHSAA large schools, MHSAA small schools, MAIS schools - collectively, they generally produce college athletes in relation to their relative numbers.
Now, town-to-town and school-to-school, there are variables that skew the numbers - like coaching, resources, tradition, etc. But, collectively, it all washes out about the way it should.
Now, town-to-town and school-to-school, there are variables that skew the numbers - like coaching, resources, tradition, etc. But, collectively, it all washes out about the way it should.
I don't watch any high school football, so of course my opinion is meaningless (who am I kidding? it's meaningless regardless). But I agree that the Academies can produce individual players. I just feel like on a whole they are not as athletic as the public schools. I watched the first quarter of JA v JP last night and I saw a bunch of slow, nonathletic guys. I don't see anyway they could compete with week in and week out with the public schools.
Bo Bounds said last week that these two schools (JA, JP) could compete with the "elite schools in MS." ********. USP, Meridian, West Point-- all would beat JA or JP with ease.
Bo Bounds said last week that these two schools (JA, JP) could compete with the "elite schools in MS." ********. USP, Meridian, West Point-- all would beat JA or JP with ease.
I did play in the 80's, and I agree that a lot has changed, that's why my kids are in private school. When I played, a lot of white kids still went to public school and we ran a lot more than 5 plays, but, I had a lot of friends that went to school with me until 8th grade and when they sat the bench their parents moved them to schools like St. Joe, Washington, IA, etc. They started at those schools and were the best they had, but they never would have started at Leland. I guess that's what I'm basing my argument on, and watching my nephews play at IA and Washington. </p>
Oh, and you said yourself, Wes only played one year of academy ball, so I don't think that counts.</p>
wonder what percentage of kids who attend MAIS, can qualify to play college level ball, compared to public school.
prolly depends where the school is located. think there is a difference between Greenwood High and Tupelo?
prolly depends where the school is located. think there is a difference between Greenwood High and Tupelo?
all star game and talked to him some there. He told my brother back then that he did not want to play. He is extremely smart I think he made a 30 something on his A.C.T. So I think he sees his future is and sees where the money is... With that being said he should have never played if he didn't want to, to begin with. His dad wanted it more than he did.