What Part Does Coaching Play in Developing Players

Public schools as well. Bradie james (LSU, Dallas Cowboys) spent his frosh-junior years at one school, and then appeared at National Power West Monroe his senior year. One public school in south LA has won 3 state titles in the last 11 or so years....on each of these teams there were starters/all state players/scholarship players who started their careers at a cross town rival school.

Talking about High School kids getting DI Scholarships and kids being able to play DI ball:
What about all the walk ons like at schools like Nebraska, how do they fit in to this equation?
No one wants them out of High School, they arent terribly gifted size and speed wise, otherwise they would be getting full rides somewhere.

So they walk on to NU, redshirt and viola 3-4 years later many end up playing or starting on National Championship caliber teams.
NU has gotten 24 walk on commits so far, and most of them had DII partial offers or nothing at all, zip etc. If all these DI players are freaks of nature, with great size, speed and 4.4 times, how do these kids fit in?

It must be less than an exact science. NU offered a kid 3 weeks ago that was honorable mention Class C3. Tiny school one boys and one girls bathroom in the whole school. He had one offer total and didnt even make all conference/all state etc?
His coach dropped off film of him about a month ago, Osborne was on it, they offered him within days of Pelinis hire.

If you look at the population of the old "Big 5 football states (FL,CA,TX,PA,OH)" you will see they all rank in the top 6-7 in the country. So right there you have a bigger talent pool to pull from. PLus as has been mentioned before the mentality of football is different in these states and I know people who have left some of these states to coach else where and when they come back they say there is just something different about coaching in those states. So basically I would say population plays a huge reason why some areas pump out tons of D-1 kids a year, DFW is the 4th largest metro. area in the US combine that with the fact Texas is football crazy and your gonna get tons of D-1 kids. People don't go to NYC to get football players they go there for basketball kids cause thats whats king in NYC.

As far as Jenks/Tulsa its a pretty big city with about 400,000 people. Combine that with a football mentality and there you go. Plus don't discount that people who think their kids is D-1 in that area wouldn't move to that district so their son could attend one of those schools. There was a D-1 QB in Pittsburgh whos father was a NFL ass't coach in Carolina. He sent him back to PA to play his JR/SR year to a school where he would get noticed and play against other top players.

To close, if any of this made sense, I have coached or been part of teams that have produced about 20 D-1 kids. And they were all freaks. You knew right away they were special. The kids I personally coached who went D-1 I always told "Forget everything I ever taught you and you'll be fine in college" So my final thought is you can put the kids in the right position and teach them all you want but the bottom line is genetics thats what makes a D-1 kid, that includes their work ethic and drive.

for the sake of brevity, with all the coaches stating that genetics makes up a DI prospect, what do you believe the coaches at Jenks are doing to CREATE DI prospects, Dave?

I ask are you running a program or just coaching a season? If you are running a program then you are working to develop a players athletism- speed, strength, agility etc. We work at it year around because developing those skills is just as important as developing football fundamnetals. You get an athlete as far along as you can and you allow him to perform at a higher level an increase the opportunities he has beyond high school.