[RunItUpTheGut]

First I think the offense ran at Williamsburg during coach Blacks reign was ran and developed by Coach Woods. The reason it did not work at Whitley was because they did not take the time to develop the skill position kids to run the system. I mean you can not take a receiver that has just blocked all his life and and a quarterback that has just handed the ball off all of his life and expect them to win the game for you the next year. It takes time to develop that system and that is what Coach Herron has done at Williamsburg. If you go to a flag football game at Williamsburg you see them throwing the ball. It is the same system from flag football all the way up to highschool, that is what I think separates a great football program from a mediocre program.

1. I believe you mean it was developed by Tony Franklin. While Black and Woods came up with there own tweaks to it, Wburg, along with schools like South Laurel lived off that system in the early 00's.

2. You are correct. It takes time to develop a system. HOWEVER, you know as well as i do, there are six different elementary schools in this county system with different 3rd/4th and 5th/6th grade coaches for each school, and there is no way you'll ever get those coaches to all agree to start implementing the system at an early age. It just wont happen. It would be difficult for them to all run the same plays when they play each other. Its the BIGGEST problem with Whitley feeder program. To much emphasis is put on beating each other than progressing the entire system as a whole.

3. There have been several schools, and still are, that run the ball consistently, with a heavy run offense that still dominate today. You dont have to pass the ball to win, IMO, you have to defend the pass to win. Its all about speed and sadly, you cant teach speed. Its the one thing this area lacks. While there are fast players, like Mills or Patrick for example, there is usually very little team speed.