Doubletight305

8-man football will not help these programs. Good coaching and an emphasis on player development will. Many of those programs have enough kids to field a Varsity and JV but lack the organizational acumen to develop those kids. Watch most of those teams and you will teams with no offensive or defensive schemes - they just run incoherent plays and spend no time on fundamentals. In South Florida the independent league for public schools is going on its 4th year. its been a 10 or 12 league team and they crown a champion every year. Dr. Krop won the title in 2019 and Goleman won back to back titles in '20 and '21. Both those teams are now back in districts and are able to be competitive as well as other indy league alumni schools such as American and Westland. Goleman and Westland are two perennial losing programs that were able to turn it around and grow enough to be able to compete and send kids to colleges. Neither will ever win a state title, but they can now hold their own and have grown participation in their programs, regardless of demographics.