[Do-double-gg]

I agree Do-double-gg about people want to say all those successful teams recruit? Just think if you had a young child. We all want the best for our kids. Wouldn't you want your son to play in a good organized league where your son can get to play and learn the game of football instead of just playing in some unorganized league where it's so screwed up and never know when their games are til the last second and never really learn anything about the game of football. It's appealing to these parents of these young kids because it offers a better opportunity for their kids to learn the game of football. I think when Bevins, Turkey Creek, Runyon, and Blackberry all combined to create Belfry Middle School was the best possible thing that could of happened. These kids all get 2 years to play together on the same team before they ever play a snap of high school football. They get to build chemistry with each other. Before, these kids would play high school with kids they didn't know and it took a couple years just to learn one another and get used to playing one another. If you look at it, usually teams with good high school teams also have very good middle school programs and teams who arn't very good at the high school level usually arn't very good at the middle school level either.

I agree with this to a point, but you will have some cases where a team will do good in middle school and everyone gets pumped up to see what they can do in high school and then you never hear much from that team again. I think you have a few different reasons for this but I believe that one of the main reasons is because of some of the stuff I said in my prior post, the high school and lower leagues not being on the same page. I think there is a good reason why you see so many freshman for teams like Belfry being able to contribute right from the start, it's because they know the system and what is expected from em before they even get there. This is a big reason why a team from one school will beat a Belfry, Johnson or Bell team in grade school or middle school and then when they go at it on the varsity level it is like night and day and then people scratch their heads wandering what happened.