[Colonel 17]

An entire district must buy into a program, not just the head coach. There must be a combination of culture, skill, coaching, facilities. If a high school HC gets kids that have been taught next to nothing growing up at the JFL and middle school levels and that same coach has no control over the middle school or JFL than that coach is doomed. There are certain places that the coaches hands are tied with no control other than the high school. In these places, by the time kids reach high school their skills lack, knowledge of the game lacks, work ethic lacks, and a large number have given up on football long ago because of bad experiences when young. There are places that if Nick Sabin was right now he would fail because the system is set up against him and football is not important to a school so the system does not care enough to change it.