[charlie22]

The beginning of this thread used the words common sense. I put it to all of you. Champions do uncommon things. You are confusing individual talent with the ability to be a cog in a great TEAM. Champions are more often not just the collection of the most individual talent. You do not have to have the "horses" to platoon, platooning eventually creates the "horses". You have to have 6 quality coaches to split up and develop kids at the positions and you have to have some cogs to go in the machine. Its a chicken and egg problem. I'm telling you the 6 coaches and platooning comes first.
I'm trying to give you guys the secrets on a silver platter here and people are rejecting the truth for some reason. This misunderstanding about individual talent is why people constantly accuse winners of cheating or recruiting.

You raise a great point when you say that platooning eventually creates the horses. I've watched many a frosh or sophomore at Highlands, that quite frankly didn't look like they'd ever be a varsity player, turn into very, very good varsity football players by their junior or senior years. Part of that is due to the conditioning and commitment. Part of it is also due to the coaching. And if a kid only has to learn one position taught to him by a coach that only has to coach on one side of the ball, logic should lead one to conclude that the player will become a better player than if he had to learn positions on both sides of the ball taught to him by coaches that coached on both sides of the ball. At least that seems logical to me anyway.

Sometimes, no matter how well your team is coached, no matter how good your players are, you get beat. It happens. It happened to not only Highlands but Trinity also this year. Hell, it happened to Alabama this year! Perhaps instead of debating about whether the two platoon system caused Highlands to lose this year, we should just tip our hat to Collins for the outstanding team they had.