[EKUAlum05]

I agree that you have to win in the trenches, but i'm also a fan of team speed not just talking about skill players or individual speed. How many times has a team with speed beat a mountain team with power? i don't know, i'm actually asking. I know there are exceptions, but i'll take a fast LB group over a bunch of power guys anytime. I think there has to be a balance of both to win these days, i'm more or less talking my preference.

The most mis-understood aspect of the game and a good point. When a team knows their assignments and work like a machine and have quality athleticism they can look considerably faster.

Prime example:
Belfry vs. Central and Henry Clay in 2014.

If you took the fifteen guys who ran the fastest 40 in each of those games Henry Clay and Central probably would have had 10-12 of the 15.

Belfry was by far the faster team in terms of team speed in both of those games. Central struggled to gain a First Down until the last drive of the game. Henry Clay had about as many tackles for a loss against them as they did plays over ten yards. Neither team scored an offensive TD.

Belfry's defense was at the spot before either team's offensive player could get there.



Pulaski County is another prime example. Pulaski is not a very fast team in terms of straightline speed. I would bet that if you stacked Pulaski's 40 times up against the rest of 5A last year they probably wouldn't even be in the Top 10 in their class.With that said, Pulaski's offense was well timed and efficient to the point it made them look like they were two steps faster than the defenses they faced.

If Christian County, John Hardin, Iroqouis, and Pulaski held a track meet last year using their football players Pulaski would have been embarrassed. On the football field though Pulaski hoisted the hardware.