[pirateforlife00]

What makes Belfry so much better isn't that they just have a bunch of D1 guys out there who are just head and shoulders athletically better than everybody else's players. Yes, you will see a couple kids from Belfry go to a small D1 school or go to UPIKE or Cumberlands but very few of them do and even less than that actually stick it out the whole 4 years. I don't know if anyone other than us Belfry fans rememeber Coach Steve Mickey. He coached at Belfry for over 30 years. He was there before Coach Haywood was and just retired at the end of the 2008 football season. Well he is the guy who is over the little league programs for Belfry. They have 4 3rd-4th grade teams and 4 5th-6th grade teams. They only play each other and can only run the offense that the high school runs. That is how the middle school program is ran as well. Almost all of the coaches are former players who played for Coach Haywood so they know what they're talking about because they've ran this offense when they played and they run the same offense they will see when they get in high school. So kids who come in as freshman have been learning and running the same exact offense for the past 6 years of playing football. This is what I think makes Belfry so much better than all of the other mountain schools.