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4th and Forever-Muck City

plantcity3 said:
SIAP....I ran across this while looking for a sports documentary to watch the other night. The show follows Pahokee and Glades Central during the 2019 season and focuses on the dynamics of The Muck and football. The entire season is on YouTube.

Here’s a scene in the second episode featuring our very own Damion Berry getting a little emotional. Berry was taking a lot of heat as the OC for Pahokee because he just got shutout in a blowout against Palm Beach Gardens and he graduated from Glades Central. Scene starts at 24:10
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Lmao at praying that god will take vengeance on another team in his glory.
 
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@Liberty City El . Kind of OT here, but it is a HS thread. There was a dude who filled in at RB when McGahee was out for some time at Central. I believe he wore #1 or #3 and thought his last name was London. Could be off. But I remember him being quite good. Do you know who I'm thinking of? Maybe a Central fan could chime in.
 
JeddTheFisch said:
@Liberty City El . Kind of OT here, but it is a HS thread. There was a dude who filled in at RB when McGahee was out for some time at Central. I believe he wore #1 or #3 and thought his last name was London. Could be off. But I remember him being quite good. Do you know who I'm thinking of? Maybe a Central fan could chime in.
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You're talking about Antwan Lundy, he's a North Miami Beach boy that went to Central & was the RB2 behind Willis but was a really good RB himself.
 
Binge watched the whole thing when it first came out.
IMO it's a shame how mediocre that area has become in terms of football. I used to think what they had in The Muck was so cool, and special.

I worked with a guy from the Muck and he said that more and more of the teenagers in that area are turning to the street life instead of football. I don't know how true that is, but yall also make a good points about them losing talent to Eastern PB schools. I didn't even know that was an issue but it makes sense.
 
Liberty City El said:
You're talking about Antwan Lundy, he's a North Miami Beach boy that went to Central & was the RB2 behind Willis but was a really good RB himself.
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I cannot thank you enough for this answer. This eluded me for almost two decades.
 
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JeddTheFisch said:
I cannot thank you enough for this answer. This eluded me for almost two decades.
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Coach Macho said:
Binge watched the whole thing when it first came out.
IMO it's a shame how mediocre that area has become in terms of football. I used to think what they had in The Muck was so cool, and special.

I worked with a guy from the Muck and he said that more and more of the teenagers in that area are turning to the street life instead of football. I don't know how true that is, but yall also make a good points about them losing talent to Eastern PB schools. I didn't even know that was an issue but it makes sense.
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theyve always had the street life part for them in the muck...The bigger issue is alot of their kids are going to play on the east now however possible...You can see it alot even on their twitter's you'll see a kid playing at Palm Beach Central but their twitte rname is MUCK BABY or the like. Alot of the families are moving east for jobs too.

Those kids love football though...me and your mutual friend has a kid on his 7 on 7 team thats from pahokee and drives this way just to play on that u13 7 on 7 squad.
 
Coach Macho said:
Binge watched the whole thing when it first came out.
IMO it's a shame how mediocre that area has become in terms of football. I used to think what they had in The Muck was so cool, and special.

I worked with a guy from the Muck and he said that more and more of the teenagers in that area are turning to the street life instead of football. I don't know how true that is, but yall also make a good points about them losing talent to Eastern PB schools. I didn't even know that was an issue but it makes sense.
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My general thoughts was that area fell off also. Just during my generation alone, both teams were stacked with guys like Nu’Keese Richardson, (Antone, Alphonso and Vincent) Smith, Kelvin and Travis Benjamin, Janoris Jenkins, and Martavious Odoms.

Now, the only athlete who MIGHT be G5 worthy from both schools was #2 for Pahokee and he is going to prep school.
 
plantcity3 said:
My general thoughts was that area fell off also. Just during my generation alone, both teams were stacked with guys like Nu’Keese Richardson, (Antone, Alphonso and Vincent) Smith, Kelvin and Travis Benjamin, Janoris Jenkins, and Martavious Odoms.

Now, the only athlete who MIGHT be G5 worthy from both schools was #2 for Pahokee and he is going to prep school.
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In fairness, Markevious Brown is out of Pahokee but is playing IMG this year.
 
plantcity3 said:
Gotcha. I meant to say P5. I don’t think that area is that depleted to where they can’t even put guys in D1 at all like the WR with the golds for Glades Central.
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I think things will bounce back at some point. Pahokee has always been cyclical as a smaller school. Glades Central's struggles are more surprising to me.

Palm Beach County football has been an interesting animal for a long time. Recruiting has been full-bore since the 90s. Back then, we had a lot of really odd districts for purposes of high school demography. For instance, John I. Leonard got about 8 blocks of the north side of West Palm Beach, entirely surrounded by Palm Beach Lakes' district. Olympic Heights (then the West Boca district school) got a small area of inner city Delray, as did Spanish River (then the North Boca district). Those districts were borne out of desegregation compliance issues in the 80s. During my time in high school, 2001-2005, the districts became much more normalized to only the local zone. The public schools recruited. The private schools recruited. There were high profile transfers long before the FHSAA granted the green light. It was common knowledge.

These strange districts, as one might imagine, led to some highly uneven programs in 90s Palm Beach County. The head coach REALLY mattered (e.g. Daniels at Dwyer).

But the Glades programs didn't have funky districts and they always had good coaches. Post-2010, the parents are just more willing than ever to send their kids east (often Royal Palm or Palm Beach Central) just to get them into a more stable and economically advantaged environment. For people who have never been there, it is hard to explain how tough Belle Glade really is.
 
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As an admin at Clewiston we have been seeing a lot of our top boys bolting for GC and Pahokee in recent years past. But at the same time we have gotten some good kids too. I agree with some here in regards to families needing work. We have US sugar that draws many while others head east as stated. Football season in the muck is a special place and always entertaining. Just good football. Things have regressed a bit but still proud and special.
 
JeddTheFisch said:
I think things will bounce back at some point. Pahokee has always been cyclical as a smaller school. Glades Central's struggles are more surprising to me.

Palm Beach County football has been an interesting animal for a long time. Recruiting has been full-bore since the 90s. Back then, we had a lot of really odd districts for purposes of high school demography. For instance, John I. Leonard got about 8 blocks of the north side of West Palm Beach, entirely surrounded by Palm Beach Lakes' district. Olympic Heights (then the West Boca district school) got a small area of inner city Delray, as did Spanish River (then the North Boca district). Those districts were borne out of desegregation compliance issues in the 80s. During my time in high school, 2001-2005, the districts became much more normalized to only the local zone. The public schools recruited. The private schools recruited. There were high profile transfers long before the FHSAA granted the green light. It was common knowledge.

These strange districts, as one might imagine, led to some highly uneven programs in 90s Palm Beach County. The head coach REALLY mattered (e.g. Daniels at Dwyer).

But the Glades programs didn't have funky districts and they always had good coaches. Post-2010, the parents are just more willing than ever to send their kids east (often Royal Palm or Palm Beach Central) just to get them into a more stable and economically advantaged environment. For people who have never been there, it is hard to explain how tough Belle Glade really is.
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Appreciate the geography lesson. I’m always down to learn about fifteen areas.
 
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