agspirit_09 said:
Look, I'm not trying to rain on anyone's parade, but the kids he's doing this against aren't exactly dudes. He's no doubt talented and a good athlete, but he's a medium sized fish in a tiny pond… the teams featured on the defensive side of the ball in those clips are notoriously bad defensively. I used to coach down here in SA and I can tell you, there's 10 other backs ahead of him in terms of speed and explosiveness in San Antonio alone right now and they're not going to big time D1 schools. This guy would do well at a school like UIW, or a Louisiana/Oklahoma directional school. He's not SEC caliber which is probably why his coaches haven't done the legwork. Coaches aren't lazy when they have a dude that they know is special… they want to ride that kids coattails to greatness, so they'll do everything they can to get his name out there. The problem is, he's average to slightly above average.
SW legacy high school may not even make the playoffs in a bad 5A district that won't send a representative past the second round. If yall don't know, San Antonio football isn't exactly known for being world beaters…
He's not average and if you actually coached like you say, you should know that. He's also probably not SEC or Big10 caliber. That doesn't mean there aren't 100 other schools playing big boy football that could use someone like him. Especially if he has good grades.
Here's the problem. Your post is the exact reason the perception of high school coaches has gone down hill and players and universities are more aligned with 7on7 and training coaches. On one hand you say coaches aren't lazy, but then spend an entire paragraph explaining why you wouldn't make the effort to help a kid that's the exact reason coaches are supposed to be coaches.
I imagine his coaches haven't asked for the same effort from him that you are advocating while he has put everything into their program. Instead of being a gatekeeper, how about you give suggestions on how someone who obviously doesn't know the ropes can learn and give the kid a shot at an ACC, Pac12, or Big12 scholarship?
