U.S. Army All-American Bowl

I enjoyed Saturday's NBC broadcast of the U.S. Army's All-American Bowl from San Antonio...however!

All this really is is an infommercial for scout.com, Tom Lemming, etc. Quite honestly they continue to miss the boat on how high school football fits into college football.

Yes, all of the players in the game are among the "best of the best" in high school football, but let's remember that there are only 700-plus Major League Baseball players, and every year there are deserving players left off the All-Star roster. High school football has over a million players, so how can anyone possibly get it right!!

It is a great honor for the kids that played, and I don't want to take anything away from them...but....

What I do want to point out is these "know it all" websites don't really care about the game...they care about their profits. Most "analysts" don't really have the pedigree...heck, most big time college coaches know that it's a crapshoot.

Why do I say there needs to be a website serving players who don't have the "blue chiper" after their name?

Here are a couple of things you should know. In February, 2005 the Atlanta Jounal Constitution did a very nice article on National Letter of Intent Signing Day that pointed out that "about 40 percent of the nation's highest-rated prospects go on to college careers that are at best ordinary, at worst awful." That percentage was based on an analysis of the high school Class of 2000.

The AJC went on to state that two out of five of the most highly ranked recruits spend more than half of their college careers as back-ups, or transfer or quit the team.

All I'm saying is let's try to give both sides of the story, and that's why I'm here. They're are a lot of great kids playing at all levels from Division IA to Division III, and I want to tell as many of those stories as I can.

High school coaches, with signing day a month away, email me at highschoolhuddle@yahoo.com and inform me where ALL of your players will be headed on signing day!!

Look forward to hearing from everyone, and making this THE BLOG for high school football.

Finally, this site is about the game of high school football, so it would be wrong of me not to provide you with a link to read about the game. Click on the link below to read a recap of the game.

Just remember, the goal of this blog is to promote the entire sport of high school football!!!

Sincerely,

Jeff