[Fly Like a Duck]

Track speed is completely different than football speed;very few college football players could be top college sprinters. If you have 5 guys on a HS football fiield who can run a 4.4 to 4.6, you have more speed than most teams,Highlands very often does have that many kids or more on the field (this is not what I would call fast track speed,but is very very good for football). Too many people think you need to have 4.3 speed to be good. When Collinsworth was at HHS he had 4.5 to 4.6 speed but was one of the best RB's I have seen go through HHS.

Just because the are from the "holler" does not mean they can't be just as good of athlete. If they started playing young like HHS kids do then they too might be state champions, it takes a lot of work and dedication.

I think you might be doing the wrong workouts,because I have seen some kids from HHS turn from out of shape chubby kids as freshmen to very cut kids JR and SR year. And Charlie is from NKY not EKY.

It takes a lot more than that. Highlands, and you might roll your eyes at this comment, but while I love everything about what their program and community stand for; isn't the only program that has their youth league start at age 5-6 (or in that range give or take a year).

Bottom line is this, IMHO, (and I feel that I can say this bc I've grown up, lived and/or worked vast areas of different demographic factors; urban, rural, majority white, 50/50 black white, large amount of single family homes, majority two parent homes and both WORK, low income, high income, middle of the road, etc) I just feel that there is much more that lays the foundation of the have and the have nots, the will and the wont's, in Kentucky High School Football (and, anywhere for that matter) than just "hard work". It's not just football, but everything in life.

Not sure if you are a Jimmy Buffett fan or not, but he sums it up best on how I feel with a phrase in his song, "Permanent Reminder of Temporary Feeling"..."it's not their fault, they can't change their DNA."