[Fly Like a Duck]

It's not the lack of African American athletes that hurts the eastern Ky. schools. It's the offense systems they run and the type of off season workouts they conduct in order to run those systems. If you watch enough of the eastern Ky schools, it's readily apparent that more time is spent on increasing strength than is spent on improving speed and quickness. They have big, strong linemen and Lbers. But they are too slow to play in space and can't maintain blocks long enough. Big and strong works fine when playing other similarly oriented schools but fails when faced with teams that have quickness and speed. And it's not just African American athletes that have speed and quickness. See Highlands.

Sorry if I've offended, but that's how I see it.

Why do you not see more white guys on the best 4x100 relay teams? Why are the best college football teams dominated by black kids in the skill positions?

Let me ask you this, how many places in KY have you lived? Or better yet (assuming here from your post), have you ever lived out of the EKY area? Just an honest question.

As far as Highlands goes, like it or not, they don't have many kids on their team who come from down on the farm or back in the holler and have parents/relatives who haven't ever picked up a ball, let a lone a football.

There isn't an offseason work out regime in the world that can turn thick ankles into skinny ones. Sorry.