Originally Posted by Bamarich2
Originally Posted by TDog93
Thomasville has missed out on several deep runs - a few teams in last 5 years would hav normally gone to state - but rich private schools like mobile christian or st james went instead. The rich schools are happy! One year i am referring to mobile Christian had like 8 d1 guys🤣🤣 in little 3a🤣🤣
They were introduced like - this is such and such - he has been going here since the 9th grade 🤣🤣

Some genius on here said - well - yall can do it too the last time i saw this topic! I tried explaining our school is fairly poor - lot of people going here are below middle class

I would rather the schools be seperate! NIL or schollys should hav there on league! Here is an example - say every sec school could do nil - but bama - hey that's fair right?

Amd we will not hav 8 d1 guys in 6-8 years - like every other public school we play. Some of our coaches played college ball - some of our volunteer coaches did to (they hav a clue about sports) they all say the private school thing is stupid (bettr resources which is huge unfair advantage) but rich private schools are happy

I grew up in a small town close to your area... and you're correct. Even with a desire to do better, you can't get blood from a turnip. I remember playing Thomasville back in the 80's... the years when they made deep runs in the playoffs and their games against Sweet Water were war. Our issue isn't so much that we don't have any resources, it's the fact that local school boards tie your hands. IMO, this is a bigger issue with the smaller schools because like Thomasville, so many smaller ones just don't have resources that larger schools often have. I think a separate "open" classification would be good idea.


Tdog93 that genius was me. I know it can be done from experience. I coached at a private school. The public schools in the area have better facilities than we did. The school administration did not value football. But the parents did. These aren’t rich parents. These are parents that sacrifice to send their kids to a cheap Christian school. It costs around 120k a year to run the football program grades 3-12 at the school. The program received about 20k a year from the school. The rest of the money was raised… not donated… raised by players and parents. Same for the baseball and basketball programs. They raised about 175k every year. They hired a good coach, the program turned around. The people in the program made it a priority and made it successful.

Don’t say it ain’t fair, call it what it is… it’s just not a priority. Do some programs have to work harder than others? Of course. Such is life. Get over it and do something about it besides complaining. Don’t accept the problem, be part of the solution.

Last edited by Pwyse; 12/04/25 12:31 PM.