IMG needs to play better teams

[Jags904]

On 10/29/2018 at 1:44 PM, ColumbiaHighFan2017class said:

Idk if there is a specific reason for it but it does seem that rural areas seem to be much stronger in sports like baseball than Urban areas 

 

It also seems that so many programs are not really balanced

 

Either they are really good in a specific sport or they are really bad,  you don't see a lot of middle ground

 

Some of this is because of the transfers, some of this is because so many schools that aren't properly funded or ran tend to become feeders to other schools nearby in much better structure

 

 

It also feels like newer schools don't have the same level of consistency 

 

You have programs like Columbia, St Augustine, Mainland, etc  that are very old schools and even though some of the newer schools have been able to beat these teams they tend to go one of 2 ways, either they are like viera or Bartram trail or wekiva or ponte vedra and rise to top quickly or they just become a mess from the start and never seem to get any better 

 

It's seems almost impossible to truly build from ground up over it long term period

1) Sense of pride. When you’re from a small town and you grew up going to HS football games, guess what? Support is going to be much higher than if you’re from Tampa and you have a 10,000 other options on a Friday night. 

2) In stable communities you tend to have feeder programs that build directly up to the HS and so you have 10-15 new freshman each year in all sports who have experience doing the sport. Of course you’re going to be better than most.

3) As a guy who has seen firsthand the growth of Fleming Island athletics (I’ve lived there since 1996, well before it was opened), you need parental support, administrative support, and hard work to win. It is certainly much easier there than in inner city schools.