All of this talk about recruits is interesting. It got me to thinking about Pete Adkins, the legendary coach of the Jeff City Jays. Pete did what good coaches do. He took what he had to work with and coached them to over 400 wins during his career. He didn't have the luxury of picking a player from somewhere out of state, he made some All-Americans out of local boys. Even a few NFL stars.

I don't think for one second that the athletic gene pool in Jeff City was any better than that at Hickman in COMO or Rockhurst or CBC in StL. It all came down to knowing how to get the best out of what you have...

And knowing X's and O's is only part of the deal. HCBO may know the mechanics...but he sure hasn't instilled the desire to win and succeed.

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Posted by wubilli

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Member since Apr 2014

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Posted on 9/26/17 at 12:15 pm to MizzouPhoto

Adkins had a system in place that started teaching kids fundamentals in 6th grade. Webb City has a similar system in place.

Sometimes it takes time to get everything in place. Maybe BO figures it out here, but probably not.

I still think he will end up being a good HC, he just didn’t get th luxury of learning most of what it takes at a group of 5 school like GP.

GP at Toledo inherited a 10 win team and a great staff. If took him until about 4-5 years to really figure it out. By then he had turned his initial staff almost completely over.

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