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Yes and no!!! Doesn’t mean the kids in the LowCountry aren’t better than midland/upstate kids....Refs, coaching, injuries, bad grades, girlfriend breaking up....etc..etc...all sorts of variables add up during the week and determine the outcome of games.
An old proverb "Iron Sharpens Iron" applies here. Unfortunately, there is plenty of talent here in the Charleston/Low Country area but they don't play enough talented teams to sharpen the metal to a razor's edge. They have diluted the talent pool down splitting the schools up to the point that everyone has a little bit of someone but not enough of anything. They have got to go outside the area to get battle-tested if they want to be ready for the upstate wars. Just my opinion but it seems to work for the upstate teams. Albert Einstien once said, "You can't expect to get different results from doing the same thing all the time".Newcatntown wrote: ↑Thu Nov 19, 2020 7:05 amYes and no!!! Doesn’t mean the kids in the LowCountry aren’t better than midland/upstate kids....Refs, coaching, injuries, bad grades, girlfriend breaking up....etc..etc...all sorts of variables add up during the week and determine the outcome of games.
If FD plays River Bluff again this Friday...who would you pick? Its not like RB blew FD away...14-12.
What still amazes me is that the taxes are what they are and the facilities and booster clubs are not any better than what they are. You look at Aiken County, Greenwood County, and Lexington County and what they have done with their school tax dollars plus what the Booster Clubs at North Augusta, Greenwood, Irmo, Dutch Fork, River Bluff, and Chapin. This could afford so much more to the schools in the way of training and giving these kids the edge in sports and education. Go look at what the "average" AAAAA school in the upstate has and look at the Charleston/Low Country and you step back in time. Booster Clubs make up this difference in many cases, not the school districts. Also, there are many good coaches but when you compare facilities and schools to others where do you want to coach/teach in today's environment. Sometimes "Bigger is Better" more resources going into a project allows for better returns than so many projects that you end up spinning too many plates and getting nothing back in return. At some point, the person spinning the plates gets tired and quits.Onion Rings wrote: ↑Thu Nov 19, 2020 8:22 amold argument
coaching is better in the upstate. program building is better in the upstate. yes there are outliers but in general this is true
talent is throughout the state
it's not like there are a lot coaches that know how to build and sustain a program, as well as be an expert at play calling and in game adjustments. In fact there are very few
Plus add to the fact that the Old Guard of Coaching style won't put up with the entitlement crap that a lot of the players believe they have in today's world. Everyone doesn't get a trophy and everyone doesn't get to play or get the ball x many times like the Antiono Brown's in the world. Football is about discipline and teamwork, and not every teenager seems to understand it, not every parent teaches it at home either and the coaches oftentimes become the parent.Onion Rings wrote: ↑Thu Nov 19, 2020 8:22 amold argument
coaching is better in the upstate. program building is better in the upstate. yes there are outliers but in general this is true
talent is throughout the state
it's not like there are a lot coaches that know how to build and sustain a program, as well as be an expert at play calling and in game adjustments. In fact there are very few