Ville Platte High has one. Attended Saban's camp and made the All-Saban team but they may give that to every camper to put in the paper when they get home. Anyway, he's a 4.0 student and I'm hearing a lot of great things about him but haven't seen him play.
You are correct. He also coached at Capt. Shreve if memory serves me correct. He was a very good QB coach.
Well the friend who initially started this topic thought that LSU should pressure some of the in-state HS teams to run more pro-style offenses or a system based around traditional pocket passers in general. He seemed to think there's a tendency in Louisiana high schools to just give the ball to their best athlete and call him a quarterback. I don't know, I don't follow HS football at all, but there are a lot of things in that article that backed up what he was saying.
I didn't read through the article but there is a lot of truth to that. In this case, however, he has a receiver, Darius Poullard, who's going to play D1-A ball somewhere and also a solid student, from what I was told by his coach.
A big part of it is the systems. Louisiana high schools in large part either run the ball almost exclusively (think Curtis, oak grove, haynesville) or run spread offenses (evangel, bastrop, rayville, and MANY others). The spreads are usually run with the best athlete as QB but never really developing true QB skills so they project out as athletes. Think about the last three Mr. Football recipients...all QBs in high school (not positive on this past year but thought it was the Lutcher QB). Before that it was Matherne from belle chasse, and before him Randall Mackey. Of the three, Mackey was by far the most capable QB. But he had limitations so we preferred Jefferson over Mackey. Mackey was a horrible student as well and went JUCO. He's at ole miss now redshirting. I know people that saw the mannings and bootys play and felt Mackey was the best they had seen at that level, he just didn't have the measurables. He wanted to come to LSU. I think if miles had known perilloux would screw up again he wouldve stashed Mackey at a prep school instead of letting him walk. He's 6'0 at best but I think that kid could run the shlit out of a read option. Useful football player. Exceptional arm. Wish we had him now. Bottom line, it takes more than just measurables to create a marquee QB. You need players around him. We wouldn't know RR if not for Mackey, but RR made life earsier for Mackey as well. If a high school coach gets a 6'4 220 pound kid, he's probably putting him at defensive end because he doesn't have many kids his size. Bastrop had the fortune to have about ten kids at once who all went D-1. Most programs don't get that perfect of circumstances. I hope kids are paying attention and are serious about having QB careers. We could sure use a pipeline.
