*Wrong. Different areas and programs maintain stronger pools of athletes than others. That is ALL that I said. In terms of quality and quantity of athletes in high school football, South Georgia is not like North Georgia, Utah is not like Florida. Staunton River is not like Blacksburg, GW Danville is not like Rustburg. Different schools and areas have different amounts of athletes. That is all that was said. People have said plenty of times on here that a head coach is going to want to coach athletes, and all that was said is that there are plenty of other schools that have more athletes roaming the halls than JF does. (sidenote,
— — location matters but again check the racial dynamics of the location...the suburbs generally in central va aren’t diverse grounds, so yes I’m reading in between the lines, and in all these examples minus SRHS and bburg there’s a stern and stark racial disparity between Utah and Florida, Danville and Rustburg, southern vs northern GA, maintaining a stronger pool could also be due to the socioeconomic factors keeping some people trapped some places, but there’s a lot more that goes into this athleticism debate than just location, systematically housing in the US wasn’t fairly distributed, still isn’t today, you ever heard of redlining? I don’t agree with the premise that black or AA makes the better athlete BC of (insert whatever)...but I do know why the argument is that JF quality of athletes isn’t the same and it’s not because of the quantity and quality of the school...it’s a larger 4A and in an affluent as well as desirable area, but not everybody can afford to live there same as other locales. There’s so much that goes into what an area looks like that you forget what people are ostracized or excluded to get it to be that way, again the biggest quote in America if you want the truth is FOLLOW THE MONEY.
*Again, no one said anything about more African American players = more talent. What was said is that there are other schools with more athletes roaming the halls than JF, and that would play into a coach's decision to coach there.
—— the argument is why no coach with head coaching experience is applying for the job at JF, they arguably have the top player returning in Keenan cupit and 2 years ago had a player similar in terms of game changer ability in jones...so you get talent but like somebody outlined you don’t get the depth of plug in play, when the big lineman for forest goes down they have somebody who could fill in, when the one speed demon goes down, there goes majority of the team speed, but football speed and track speed are different from baseball, b-ball, and etc speed/quickness. Forest has quick ones but not that many speedy ones. Which is where the argument about quantity/quality comes in, you got an equal amount of bodies to pull from but what’s separating these talent levels?
*The offense has continued on fine without Navy Jones. It's been the defense that has sunk JF. (Put up close to 600 yards on state champ Heritage this year).
— — 600 yards in a loss, cause they can’t stop anybody, defense hadn’t been played since christmas came back and in the games that mattered most it’s what hurt them the most, the motto is if we score we might win if they don’t score we will win so the offense produces but why has no rb done what jones has done in there since? And remember jones left an altavista team with UVA’s Juan thornhill to come to JF, so he missed out on some rings and looks.
*I think Dresean is on level but that's just my opinion. And that's a good point about LaLa.
—— I’ve seen Kendrick and he’s explosive but I just need to see that next step...I saw him grow the past two seasons I want to see him as a senior...the other samples I’ve seen a complete work
*Agreed. Jones was great but I personally don't think he is what people on here were making him out to be. The same offense had another 1,000 yard+ rusher two seasons in a row, with a third back rushing for 700.
—— I don’t see another player going for 2k like jones did in this offense at JF. There’s been great rbS in JF and statistically navy is the best, so did they benefit from navy or did he benefit more from them is an opinion driven statement, but I’d think the secondary pieces benefit more from the primary one. Let’s look at Amherst in 2007-2008. Josh Braxton was the rb who was first team all district, but he benefited BC teams were dropping and trying to stop peter rose at all costs which left the rest wide open. If you playing qb instead of pitch in the option the rb has running room and Braxton could fly but nobody thought he was the xfactor. I can give more examples if need be as well but it’s opinion driven...success is determined by results. Another example at JF 2008-2009 Desmond Goode ran for nearly 1700 that season and the back up Rashad Hall ran for 800 both were good backs but without Goode JF doesn’t make it where they did this season. He single handedly took over games, and the one game he didn’t play JF won 20-14 over a terrible Rustburg team.