[AtlPirateFan]

Honestly, every single one of them. There isn't one high school in the entire country that doesn't have at least one kid walking the halls that has untapped potential. I can think of a ton of boys in high school that could have been great ballplayers. A lot of them started on the team as Freshman and stopped playing due to academics and other reasons.

Then there are the other kids, the ones like me, I was ask several times my freshman year why I wasn't on the team because I was built like a linebacker. I had athletic aptitude, I had played football, basketball and baseball until my freshman year, however I had moved a lot and by the time I was a freshman I was more into to computer programming and the "geeky" stuff than I was sports. I thought I had fallen too far behind to have a chance at playing in HS. There are a ton of kids like that out there, the ones who feel they aren't cut out for it and never try. One of my biggest regrets was not playing for Coach Haywood and his staff. As a senior I was 6'2 255 lbls, not doubt in my mind they would have made use of me somewhere even if it was only in practice.

I think if I was ever a head coach I would call a school assembly, dismiss everyone who was already going out for football and then have a discussion with the rest as to why they didn't want to come out for the team. I think reaching out to theses kids and offering rides, academic tutoring and other things would help bolster teams numbers.