South Florida football continues to distance itself

[Barboni]

Coach Macho, why do you think all of the top players keep going to school to play for Harriott, Rumph, Casullo and Ice, Jr.? They go because they know that they will get great coaching and a lot of exposure. There are certainly other good coaches out there, but to discount these proven winners is just wrong. Let's face it, where was U School before Roger Harriott took over that program, and what happened after he left? How many state titles did Heritage have before Rumph took over there? Exactly. These guys are great football coaches, anyway you slice it.

Not saying they're bad coaches, but that's not why those kids go to those schools. Top players go to those schools, because: 1. THE COACHES HAVE CONNECTIONS WITH OPTIMIST COACHES, HANDLERS, RELATIVES, and FRIENDS of the top kids coming into hs. Billy Rolle is great example of this. Still runs a 5-3 defense and flamed out of Killian and NW when their program had just a slight drop in talent, but since he's Billy Rolle, parents will start sending their kids to the ridge. 2. Some people have this notion that if a coach played in the NFL, that their kid will receive top notch coaching. I've seen plenty of former NFL players coach down here and straight up suck. 3. Those coaches are at schools that INVEST resources into their program (Facilities, they travel OOS, best equipment, players don't have to fundraise, better education, safer school, no F-cats, etc...). Anyone can walk into STA and win, with the rep that they built and plentiful funding from alumni.

 

[Ibis Wingz]

Coach Macho, why do you think all of the top players keep going to school to play for Harriott, Rumph, Casullo and Ice, Jr.? They go because they know that they will get great coaching and a lot of exposure. There are certainly other good coaches out there, but to discount these proven winners is just wrong. Let's face it, where was U School before Roger Harriott took over that program, and what happened after he left? How many state titles did Heritage have before Rumph took over there? Exactly. These guys are great football coaches, anyway you slice it.

Not saying they're bad coaches, but that's not why those kids go to those schools. Top players go to those schools, because: 1. THE COACHES HAVE CONNECTIONS WITH OPTIMIST COACHES, HANDLERS, RELATIVES, and FRIENDS of the top kids coming into hs. Billy Rolle is great example of this. Still runs a 5-3 defense and flamed out of Killian and NW when their program had just a slight drop in talent, but since he's Billy Rolle, parents will start sending their kids to the ridge. 2. Some people have this notion that if a coach played in the NFL, that their kid will receive top notch coaching. I've seen plenty of former NFL players coach down here and straight up suck. 3. Those coaches are at schools that INVEST resources into their program (Facilities, they travel OOS, best equipment, players don't have to fundraise, better education, safer school, no F-cats, etc...). Anyone can walk into STA and win, with the rep that they built and plentiful funding from alumni.

People can point to down years for Billy Rolle or Guandolo and make the argument that they were only good because they had top talent, but those guys have been around for a long time and sometimes the game passes you by or you lose that fire in the belly. It happens to all coaches after a while.

As far as anyone walking into STA and winning, that isn't true. Coach Smith resigned and appointed a successor 10-11 years ago, and the guy was so bad that Coach Smith fired him and took the reigns again and rebuilt the program. Furthermore, if that was the case, STA could have hired anyone after Rocco left, but they waited patiently to hire Coach Harriott.

 

[The Franchise]

Coach Macho, why do you think all of the top players keep going to school to play for Harriott, Rumph, Casullo and Ice, Jr.? They go because they know that they will get great coaching and a lot of exposure. There are certainly other good coaches out there, but to discount these proven winners is just wrong. Let's face it, where was U School before Roger Harriott took over that program, and what happened after he left? How many state titles did Heritage have before Rumph took over there? Exactly. These guys are great football coaches, anyway you slice it.

Not saying they're bad coaches, but that's not why those kids go to those schools. Top players go to those schools, because: 1. THE COACHES HAVE CONNECTIONS WITH OPTIMIST COACHES, HANDLERS, RELATIVES, and FRIENDS of the top kids coming into hs. Billy Rolle is great example of this. Still runs a 5-3 defense and flamed out of Killian and NW when their program had just a slight drop in talent, but since he's Billy Rolle, parents will start sending their kids to the ridge. 2. Some people have this notion that if a coach played in the NFL, that their kid will receive top notch coaching. I've seen plenty of former NFL players coach down here and straight up suck. 3. Those coaches are at schools that INVEST resources into their program (Facilities, they travel OOS, best equipment, players don't have to fundraise, better education, safer school, no F-cats, etc...). Anyone can walk into STA and win, with the rep that they built and plentiful funding from alumni.

People can point to down years for Billy Rolle or Guandolo and make the argument that they were only good because they had top talent, but those guys have been around for a long time and sometimes the game passes you by or you lose that fire in the belly. It happens to all coaches after a while.

As far as anyone walking into STA and winning, that isn't true. Coach Smith resigned and appointed a successor 10-11 years ago, and the guy was so bad that Coach Smith fired him and took the reigns again and rebuilt the program. Furthermore, if that was the case, STA could have hired anyone after Rocco left, but they waited patiently to hire Coach Harriott.

I used to hear guys say that anyone could walk in and win at Miami too because of our distinct recruiting advantage. Time has proven those soothsayers wrong.

Many many coaches with access to great talent have failed over the years. There's a lot more to winning championships than just lining up some good athletes and telling them to win.

 

[Barboni]

Coach Macho, why do you think all of the top players keep going to school to play for Harriott, Rumph, Casullo and Ice, Jr.? They go because they know that they will get great coaching and a lot of exposure. There are certainly other good coaches out there, but to discount these proven winners is just wrong. Let's face it, where was U School before Roger Harriott took over that program, and what happened after he left? How many state titles did Heritage have before Rumph took over there? Exactly. These guys are great football coaches, anyway you slice it.

Not saying they're bad coaches, but that's not why those kids go to those schools. Top players go to those schools, because: 1. THE COACHES HAVE CONNECTIONS WITH OPTIMIST COACHES, HANDLERS, RELATIVES, and FRIENDS of the top kids coming into hs. Billy Rolle is great example of this. Still runs a 5-3 defense and flamed out of Killian and NW when their program had just a slight drop in talent, but since he's Billy Rolle, parents will start sending their kids to the ridge. 2. Some people have this notion that if a coach played in the NFL, that their kid will receive top notch coaching. I've seen plenty of former NFL players coach down here and straight up suck. 3. Those coaches are at schools that INVEST resources into their program (Facilities, they travel OOS, best equipment, players don't have to fundraise, better education, safer school, no F-cats, etc...). Anyone can walk into STA and win, with the rep that they built and plentiful funding from alumni.

People can point to down years for Billy Rolle or Guandolo and make the argument that they were only good because they had top talent, but those guys have been around for a long time and sometimes the game passes you by or you lose that fire in the belly. It happens to all coaches after a while.

As far as anyone walking into STA and winning, that isn't true. Coach Smith resigned and appointed a successor 10-11 years ago, and the guy was so bad that Coach Smith fired him and took the reigns again and rebuilt the program. Furthermore, if that was the case, STA could have hired anyone after Rocco left, but they waited patiently to hire Coach Harriott.

These aren't bad coaches, but what do they do from a schematic (pregame and in game adjustments) perspective that separates them from other good coaches? They sure can get a lot of talent, though. Yes, there are programs that do well, without crazy talent (most are outside of FL).

Lost the fire in their belly? So they're just coaching for a paycheck only at this point? I haven't seen Guandolo beat a good team while at Cypress Bay. In-fact, he went to Katy Tx, who was 1-2 at the time and he got blown out with his most talent loaded team (2008). I know 3-4 of those cypress kids; coached them on 7v7. They'll tell you the coaching difference was day and night. What did Rolle do at the West other than win with the most talent loaded team in the history of Dade.

I should have said Harriot is a guy that will help to bring in even more players. But, what has he really done other than bring in players? That University team that was loaded in '13, lost to every good team that they played (Manatee, Central, Booker T). Who were their big wins against? A homestead team that didn't make the playoffs or a Cypress bay team that was avg.

 

[HTownCane71305]

South Florida distances itself from UM would be more accurate.

 

[Coach Macho]

Coach Macho, why do you think all of the top players keep going to school to play for Harriott, Rumph, Casullo and Ice, Jr.? They go because they know that they will get great coaching and a lot of exposure. There are certainly other good coaches out there, but to discount these proven winners is just wrong. Let's face it, where was U School before Roger Harriott took over that program, and what happened after he left? How many state titles did Heritage have before Rumph took over there? Exactly. These guys are great football coaches, anyway you slice it.

U-School's football program didn't exist before Harriott took over. Ask me where U-School was before Harriott recruited the **** out of Broward County and created a loaded team.

Same thing with Rumph. Heritage never had this much talent before Rumph.

 

[Coach Macho]

Coach Macho, why do you think all of the top players keep going to school to play for Harriott, Rumph, Casullo and Ice, Jr.? They go because they know that they will get great coaching and a lot of exposure. There are certainly other good coaches out there, but to discount these proven winners is just wrong. Let's face it, where was U School before Roger Harriott took over that program, and what happened after he left? How many state titles did Heritage have before Rumph took over there? Exactly. These guys are great football coaches, anyway you slice it.

Not saying they're bad coaches, but that's not why those kids go to those schools. Top players go to those schools, because: 1. THE COACHES HAVE CONNECTIONS WITH OPTIMIST COACHES, HANDLERS, RELATIVES, and FRIENDS of the top kids coming into hs. Billy Rolle is great example of this. Still runs a 5-3 defense and flamed out of Killian and NW when their program had just a slight drop in talent, but since he's Billy Rolle, parents will start sending their kids to the ridge. 2. Some people have this notion that if a coach played in the NFL, that their kid will receive top notch coaching. I've seen plenty of former NFL players coach down here and straight up suck. 3. Those coaches are at schools that INVEST resources into their program (Facilities, they travel OOS, best equipment, players don't have to fundraise, better education, safer school, no F-cats, etc...). Anyone can walk into STA and win, with the rep that they built and plentiful funding from alumni.

I've had/known kids that have transferred to some of these "powerhouse" schools and I know firsthand that their coaching ain't all it's cracked up to be.

It certainly isn't bad, but it ain't innovative and shocking either.

Funny story...

When Freebeck's dad took him to STA (after spending 3 years with us) their coaching staff was surprised on how much he knew about coverages and how to read a defense. Go figure. You're welcome.

 

[Coach Macho]

Coach Macho, why do you think all of the top players keep going to school to play for Harriott, Rumph, Casullo and Ice, Jr.? They go because they know that they will get great coaching and a lot of exposure. There are certainly other good coaches out there, but to discount these proven winners is just wrong. Let's face it, where was U School before Roger Harriott took over that program, and what happened after he left? How many state titles did Heritage have before Rumph took over there? Exactly. These guys are great football coaches, anyway you slice it.

Not saying they're bad coaches, but that's not why those kids go to those schools. Top players go to those schools, because: 1. THE COACHES HAVE CONNECTIONS WITH OPTIMIST COACHES, HANDLERS, RELATIVES, and FRIENDS of the top kids coming into hs. Billy Rolle is great example of this. Still runs a 5-3 defense and flamed out of Killian and NW when their program had just a slight drop in talent, but since he's Billy Rolle, parents will start sending their kids to the ridge. 2. Some people have this notion that if a coach played in the NFL, that their kid will receive top notch coaching. I've seen plenty of former NFL players coach down here and straight up suck. 3. Those coaches are at schools that INVEST resources into their program (Facilities, they travel OOS, best equipment, players don't have to fundraise, better education, safer school, no F-cats, etc...). Anyone can walk into STA and win, with the rep that they built and plentiful funding from alumni.

People can point to down years for Billy Rolle or Guandolo and make the argument that they were only good because they had top talent, but those guys have been around for a long time and sometimes the game passes you by or you lose that fire in the belly. It happens to all coaches after a while.

As far as anyone walking into STA and winning, that isn't true. Coach Smith resigned and appointed a successor 10-11 years ago, and the guy was so bad that Coach Smith fired him and took the reigns again and rebuilt the program. Furthermore, if that was the case, STA could have hired anyone after Rocco left, but they waited patiently to hire Coach Harriott.

You just don't understand how the coaching world works. There's a lot more that goes into a school's decision than X's and O's. Matter of fact, X's and O's are the LAST thing. Harriott will recruit his *** off, bring kids into that program and it won't matter what they run on offense/defense. He's also an STA alum.

As far as Guandolo goes...

I say he's a better coach than all of these guys mentioned because I've played against him every season since 2008. I've watched him adapt his offense and change his ways. His offense is, by far, the most difficult to prepare for in Broward County. When you play against STA, U-School or Miramar you prepare for their athletes, not their scheme. STA's schemes on offense and defense are super vanilla and lack innovation. Their offense would flat-out NOT WORK without D-1 kids.

This is why they struggle with teams who have equal talent. (or close)

How people can't see that is beyond me. Then you look at Coral Springs high school and their first year head coach goes to the play-offs with a 7-3 record and has the 2nd ranked offense in all of South Florida...with zero D-1 athletes...a year after the school went 3-7.

 

[Coach Macho]

Coach Macho, why do you think all of the top players keep going to school to play for Harriott, Rumph, Casullo and Ice, Jr.? They go because they know that they will get great coaching and a lot of exposure. There are certainly other good coaches out there, but to discount these proven winners is just wrong. Let's face it, where was U School before Roger Harriott took over that program, and what happened after he left? How many state titles did Heritage have before Rumph took over there? Exactly. These guys are great football coaches, anyway you slice it.

Not saying they're bad coaches, but that's not why those kids go to those schools. Top players go to those schools, because: 1. THE COACHES HAVE CONNECTIONS WITH OPTIMIST COACHES, HANDLERS, RELATIVES, and FRIENDS of the top kids coming into hs. Billy Rolle is great example of this. Still runs a 5-3 defense and flamed out of Killian and NW when their program had just a slight drop in talent, but since he's Billy Rolle, parents will start sending their kids to the ridge. 2. Some people have this notion that if a coach played in the NFL, that their kid will receive top notch coaching. I've seen plenty of former NFL players coach down here and straight up suck. 3. Those coaches are at schools that INVEST resources into their program (Facilities, they travel OOS, best equipment, players don't have to fundraise, better education, safer school, no F-cats, etc...). Anyone can walk into STA and win, with the rep that they built and plentiful funding from alumni.

People can point to down years for Billy Rolle or Guandolo and make the argument that they were only good because they had top talent, but those guys have been around for a long time and sometimes the game passes you by or you lose that fire in the belly. It happens to all coaches after a while.

As far as anyone walking into STA and winning, that isn't true. Coach Smith resigned and appointed a successor 10-11 years ago, and the guy was so bad that Coach Smith fired him and took the reigns again and rebuilt the program. Furthermore, if that was the case, STA could have hired anyone after Rocco left, but they waited patiently to hire Coach Harriott.

I used to hear guys say that anyone could walk in and win at Miami too because of our distinct recruiting advantage. Time has proven those soothsayers wrong.

Many many coaches with access to great talent have failed over the years. There's a lot more to winning championships than just lining up some good athletes and telling them to win.

When the talent advantage is extremely overwhelming...

**** near anybody can win.

1. Larry Coker
2. Randy Shannon's defenses

You guys love to discredit these coaches because of the talent they had to work with. Then you turn around and give credit to high school coaches who have the same level of talent at their disposal.

Hypocrisy.

 

[Coach Macho]

The year that we went 7-3 with a team full of Sophomores and Juniors (Dowels, Talan, Freebeck, Foy, etc)...

Harriott/U-School had a dude infiltrate our program. He befriended our head coach, invited our kids to some of his "skill camps" and even was on the sidelines for some of our games. The whole time he was pretending to help us/coach with us. And don't get me wrong, he did help a little bit and he seemed like a good guy.

Come to find out that his whole objective was to get a closer look at our kids and attempt to establish a relationship with the D-1 level players we had. He was calling our kid's cell phones during the season, on the low, and attempting to sway them towards U-School. Backfired on his dumb *** because guess what, when you're kids love you they tell you EVERYTHING.

A couple years ago we had some momentum building and we started to create a little buzz as a team who was "over achieving" and had a few good ball players. Shortly after I see Harriott's little a$$ in the stands of our games, with U-School stuff on, watching our players to see who he could poach.

And you expect me to respect Harriott or any of these other slime balls as fellow coaches? GTFOH.

 

[TheSwagger1]

The year that we went 7-3 with a team full of Sophomores and Juniors (Dowels, Talan, Freebeck, Foy, etc)...

Harriott/U-School had a dude infiltrate our program. He befriended our head coach, invited our kids to some of his "skill camps" and even was on the sidelines for some of our games. The whole time he was pretending to help us/coach with us. And don't get me wrong, he did help a little bit and he seemed like a good guy.

Come to find out that his whole objective was to get a closer look at our kids and attempt to establish a relationship with the D-1 level players we had. He was calling our kid's cell phones during the season, on the low, and attempting to sway them towards U-School. Backfired on his dumb *** because guess what, when you're kids love you they tell you EVERYTHING.

A couple years ago we had some momentum building and we started to create a little buzz as a team who was "over achieving" and had a few good ball players. Shortly after I see Harriott's little a$$ in the stands of our games, with U-School stuff on, watching our players to see who he could poach.

And you expect me to respect Harriott or any of these other slime balls as fellow coaches? GTFOH.

It really sucks that high school football has gone the way of AAU basketball. Horrible to see a kid grow up in a community/school system with his friends and coaches who truly care about him and then watch them bolt. Texas tried very hard to steer clear of this and has held out a lot longer than most states, but it seems inevitable as the transfers are starting to sneak by more and more even here. Don't know how folks can coach in "normal" schools in states where private schools compete with public and can pretty much poach at will. God bless you dude.

 

[hoover437]

The year that we went 7-3 with a team full of Sophomores and Juniors (Dowels, Talan, Freebeck, Foy, etc)...

Harriott/U-School had a dude infiltrate our program. He befriended our head coach, invited our kids to some of his "skill camps" and even was on the sidelines for some of our games. The whole time he was pretending to help us/coach with us. And don't get me wrong, he did help a little bit and he seemed like a good guy.

Come to find out that his whole objective was to get a closer look at our kids and attempt to establish a relationship with the D-1 level players we had. He was calling our kid's cell phones during the season, on the low, and attempting to sway them towards U-School. Backfired on his dumb *** because guess what, when you're kids love you they tell you EVERYTHING.

A couple years ago we had some momentum building and we started to create a little buzz as a team who was "over achieving" and had a few good ball players. Shortly after I see Harriott's little a$$ in the stands of our games, with U-School stuff on, watching our players to see who he could poach.

And you expect me to respect Harriott or any of these other slime balls as fellow coaches? GTFOH.

It really sucks that high school football has gone the way of AAU basketball. Horrible to see a kid grow up in a community/school system with his friends and coaches who truly care about him and then watch them bolt. Texas tried very hard to steer clear of this and has held out a lot longer than most states, but it seems inevitable as the transfers are starting to sneak by more and more even here. Don't know how folks can coach in "normal" schools in states where private schools compete with public and can pretty much poach at will. God bless you dude.

They do it in every sport! Kids go to the coaches/programs they think will help them!

 

[Cane Dynasty]

The year that we went 7-3 with a team full of Sophomores and Juniors (Dowels, Talan, Freebeck, Foy, etc)...

Harriott/U-School had a dude infiltrate our program. He befriended our head coach, invited our kids to some of his "skill camps" and even was on the sidelines for some of our games. The whole time he was pretending to help us/coach with us. And don't get me wrong, he did help a little bit and he seemed like a good guy.

Come to find out that his whole objective was to get a closer look at our kids and attempt to establish a relationship with the D-1 level players we had. He was calling our kid's cell phones during the season, on the low, and attempting to sway them towards U-School. Backfired on his dumb *** because guess what, when you're kids love you they tell you EVERYTHING.

A couple years ago we had some momentum building and we started to create a little buzz as a team who was "over achieving" and had a few good ball players. Shortly after I see Harriott's little a$$ in the stands of our games, with U-School stuff on, watching our players to see who he could poach.

And you expect me to respect Harriott or any of these other slime balls as fellow coaches? GTFOH.

It really sucks that high school football has gone the way of AAU basketball. Horrible to see a kid grow up in a community/school system with his friends and coaches who truly care about him and then watch them bolt. Texas tried very hard to steer clear of this and has held out a lot longer than most states, but it seems inevitable as the transfers are starting to sneak by more and more even here. Don't know how folks can coach in "normal" schools in states where private schools compete with public and can pretty much poach at will. God bless you dude.

It's like that across the whole country in every youth competition even chess.

 

[westcoastcanes]

The only thing that matters is rings. If you don't have rings you aint ****.

 

[Coach Macho]

The year that we went 7-3 with a team full of Sophomores and Juniors (Dowels, Talan, Freebeck, Foy, etc)...

Harriott/U-School had a dude infiltrate our program. He befriended our head coach, invited our kids to some of his "skill camps" and even was on the sidelines for some of our games. The whole time he was pretending to help us/coach with us. And don't get me wrong, he did help a little bit and he seemed like a good guy.

Come to find out that his whole objective was to get a closer look at our kids and attempt to establish a relationship with the D-1 level players we had. He was calling our kid's cell phones during the season, on the low, and attempting to sway them towards U-School. Backfired on his dumb *** because guess what, when you're kids love you they tell you EVERYTHING.

A couple years ago we had some momentum building and we started to create a little buzz as a team who was "over achieving" and had a few good ball players. Shortly after I see Harriott's little a$$ in the stands of our games, with U-School stuff on, watching our players to see who he could poach.

And you expect me to respect Harriott or any of these other slime balls as fellow coaches? GTFOH.

It really sucks that high school football has gone the way of AAU basketball. Horrible to see a kid grow up in a community/school system with his friends and coaches who truly care about him and then watch them bolt. Texas tried very hard to steer clear of this and has held out a lot longer than most states, but it seems inevitable as the transfers are starting to sneak by more and more even here. Don't know how folks can coach in "normal" schools in states where private schools compete with public and can pretty much poach at will. God bless you dude.

Dude...

If I didn't love to watch kids succeed so much...

And if I didn't truly enjoy developing "underdog" type players...

I would've quit by now, cause I'm just about fed up. High school football in South Florida is corrupt.

However, the difference between myself and these other coaches is...IT AIN'T ABOUT ME OR MY EGO...it's about the kids. These other dudes ain't in the profession for the kids, they're in the profession for ego and personal gain. They pretend to care about the kids. Well if they "care about the kids" so much then why don't they help out the ones who aren't D-1 level athletes? Why don't they use their own kids and help them succeed? Why do they care so much about the kids who play at other schools?

Slime balls. 83% of them.

 

[Coach Macho]

The year that we went 7-3 with a team full of Sophomores and Juniors (Dowels, Talan, Freebeck, Foy, etc)...

Harriott/U-School had a dude infiltrate our program. He befriended our head coach, invited our kids to some of his "skill camps" and even was on the sidelines for some of our games. The whole time he was pretending to help us/coach with us. And don't get me wrong, he did help a little bit and he seemed like a good guy.

Come to find out that his whole objective was to get a closer look at our kids and attempt to establish a relationship with the D-1 level players we had. He was calling our kid's cell phones during the season, on the low, and attempting to sway them towards U-School. Backfired on his dumb *** because guess what, when you're kids love you they tell you EVERYTHING.

A couple years ago we had some momentum building and we started to create a little buzz as a team who was "over achieving" and had a few good ball players. Shortly after I see Harriott's little a$$ in the stands of our games, with U-School stuff on, watching our players to see who he could poach.

And you expect me to respect Harriott or any of these other slime balls as fellow coaches? GTFOH.

It really sucks that high school football has gone the way of AAU basketball. Horrible to see a kid grow up in a community/school system with his friends and coaches who truly care about him and then watch them bolt. Texas tried very hard to steer clear of this and has held out a lot longer than most states, but it seems inevitable as the transfers are starting to sneak by more and more even here. Don't know how folks can coach in "normal" schools in states where private schools compete with public and can pretty much poach at will. God bless you dude.

They do it in every sport! Kids go to the coaches/programs they think will help them!

That they THINK will help them.

Who's telling them these lies though?

Help them do what? Get an offer?

 

[Coach Macho]

The only thing that matters is rings. If you don't have rings you aint ****.

Riiiiight.

SMH

 

[Barboni]

The only thing that matters is rings. If you don't have rings you aint ****.

LMAO...If that's the case, only about 10 hs in SFL should continue playing football, because the others have almost ZERO chance of ever winning.

Same thing in all of the metro-areas.

The job pays **** in SFL. You have to really love being around the game. I was making a $1500 stipend for the fall, and probably lost more than that dropping kids off 15 miles away from my house and buying them food. You also have to keep up with their studies. LOL had my GF helping with a few papers for players that can't write. All this, knowing that the odds are stacked against you with winning a ring, and I coached for a very good program.

 

[netdebt]

we want to be all saints at high school level but we want to rape and pillage everyone at college level. win at any cost has different moral at different level, it seems.

 

[gogeta4]

The State of Georgia had 30 players drafted while Florida had 37 players drafted. Florida's population is almost double that of Georgia, though I I don't have the numbers for high school age kids. Most of the guys drafted fall into 1 of 3 counties in GA (Cobb, Gwinnett or Fulton).

Public and private schools in the Atlanta city limits had 4 drafted. Gwinnett County is in metro Atlanta had at least 4 drafted as well.

Lived in Atlanta.....grew up in s.fla....

SH*t is TOTALLY different down here regarding football......Though i would like um to hit the metro atlanta every year for a prospect...

Some powerhouse teams in the metro atlanta area....though and i consider ga the 3rd-4th Best football state on a year in out basis behind FL/TX/CA.