The Caste System and High School Football

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The Caste System and High School Football


Sometimes the anti-white Caste System that works against white football players also unintentionally insults black players too. For example, it's no secret that white high school football teams regularly beat black high school football teams. This is no secret to anyone that follows high school football in any area of the country. Yet despite routing the black schools  and featuring running backs, receivers, and cornerbacks that outplay their black counterparts  the white players are virtually ignored, and never recruited to play at those positions in Division I-A college football.


An excellent post from Caste Fooball's discussion forum illustrates this inequity. Caste Football's guru "O.C. football" wrote the following post, which has been slightly edited:


Allow me to tell you about a player named Matt Grootegoed. We played all-black Long Beach Poly High School in the CIF championship game and we destroyed them with this player and ONLY this player. We played Reggie Bush's team during summer league and Reggie could not hold a candle to this guy. I am not making this up.


{Newspaper article)
Date: Sep 30, 2004


In 1998 the Mater Dei Monarchs captured the CIF Div. 1 title behind one of the greatest performances in Southern California high school history as RB/DB Matt Grootegoed was named player of the game on both sides of the ball.


Long Beach Poly came into the title game as the defending CIF champions after shocking the favored Monarchs the year before in the championship game at the Coliseum. The Jackrabbits were the #2 team in the nation (behind DeLaSalle) and they were loaded with a roster of talented players including CB Darrell Rideaux, WR Kareem Kelly, QB Chris Lewis and LB Dennis Link. Mater Dei featured Grootegoed as well as OL/DL Lenny Vandermade and LB Kevin Mitchell.


The Monarchs started strong with 19 unanswered points in the second quarter and they led at halftime 26-12. Poly mounted a late fourth quarter comeback, including a 37 yard TD pass from Lewis to Kelly, but it wasn't enough as Mater Dei was able to hold on for the 33-26 victory.


During the game Grootegoed carried the ball 33 times for 244 yards and two touchdowns. He also added seven tackles (five solo) along with a TFL and a pass break-up.


Rideaux was named Defensive player of the game for Poly with two tackles, a pass deflection and he also added 97 yards in kickoff returns. We asked Darrell to share his thoughts on the game and it brought back a lot of memories:


"Out of all the games I've played in my life that one might stand out the most because there were so many underlying themes. It transcended the way we look at high school football because there was so much attention paid to this game. You had two powerhouses at the top of their game. The tempo of the game was a college atmosphere with TV and all the media. We were the #2 team in the nation at the time, there was just so much talent on the field.


Everyone knew we were on a crash course to meet the whole season and the odds were on our side heading into the game just like it was the year before for Mater Dei. On paper, we should have run away with this game. You had myself and Kareem Kelly who played at USC, Chris Lewis who went to Stanford, Larry Croom, Dennis Link, we had a lot of guys who ended up playing college football. You can't measure the heart of a Matt Grootegoed though. I've never seen someone in a zone and so focused as he was that night. It seemed like as the game went along he just got stronger and stronger and his teammates fed off that. We just didn't have an answer for him. He changed the dynamic of the whole game.



Matt Grootegoed was named to the 1999 USA Today All-USA first team, Parade All-American, Super Prep All-American, Prep Star All-American, Reebok ESPN All-American, The Sporting News Top 101, Prep Star Top 100 Dream Team, Tom Lemming Top 100, Prep Star Western Super 30, Super Prep All-Farwest, Tom Lemming All-West, Long Beach Press-Telegram Best in the West first team, Orange County Register Fab 15 first team, Tacoma News Tribune Western 100, Las Vegas Sun Super 11 first team, Cal-Hi Sports All-State first team, All-CIF Southern Section first team, All-CIF Division I Co-Defensive MVP, Los Angeles Times Glenn Davis Award (as the top Southern California prep football player), Los Angeles Times All-Orange County first team, Orange County Register All-Orange County Defensive MVP and All-Serra League MVP as a senior at Mater Dei High in Santa Ana (Calif.). He made 138 tackles, 6 interceptions (2 were returned for TDs), 7 tackles for losses and 2 forced fumbles as a free safety and ran for 945 yards on 116 carries (8.1 avg) with 14 TDs as a running back (he also played some quarterback early in the season, completing 21-of-41 passes, 51.2%, for 300-plus yards) in 1999. Mater Dei was the CIF Division I co-champion.


SOOOO WHAT HAPPENED TO GROOTEGOED? He went to USC and was benched by (head coach) Pete Carrol


OH AND THAT LONG BEACH POLY TEAM.....
In the 2006 draft they sent 12 players to the NFL. We beat them. We were better. Not one of our players was even recruited to play division I football except for Matt. We had it all. When we beat Poly we thought that we would get a chance. We didn't. Its so depressing. I wake up at night. Sweating, wondering what could have happened. Matt was better then Reggie and definitely better than LenDale White (but) he got zero carries for USC. This kind of sh*t makes me sick.


In a private conversation with Matt he told me that he could not play RB for USC because the USC coaching staff just preferred the style of play of "them"... I could feel his pain. I know, and he knows, that if all of us Matre Dei guys got on the same team together we could beat those old Poly guys again. The same guys that just got drafted. Darnell Bing, Marcedes Lewis, Winston Justice, Hershel Dennis. ALL of them. (Screw) those guys we beat them before and we could beat them again. Oh and one more thing. We beat them the next year WITHOUT Matt Grootegoed. So we were all good. But he was the best. [end of O.C. Football's post]


It should be obvious to feel the pain and anger of the writer above. And why not? He and his teammates were cheated in the same manner as anyone who is discriminated against unfairly due to skin color. We hear about it all of time and are constantly prodded to correct such injustices, but only if it is a non-white as victim.


Why is it that white high school football players often out-play, out-gain, and out-class their black rivals yet are deemed unfit to play at the next level? What is it that college recruiters and coaches see that is not visible to spectators, or evident in game stats? We at Caste Football, of course, can tell you. It is anti-white racism, there is no other possible explanation. But besides this obvious unfairness that is solely explained by racism there is another issue involved. If in fact the coaches and recruiters KNOW for certain that the black players are better, and not just better in some cases either, but completely and totally better in each and every case, then WHY we must ask are they so regularly beaten at the high school level?


What possible explanation could there be for a team composed of running backs, receivers, and cornerbacks  none of whom are EVER good enough to even get a whiff of being recruited to those positions at a major college  being able to win so often and so handily? Surely there has to be some rational reason for a group of clearly inferior players coming out on top with such frequency. What could it be?


Years ago there was the claim that white teams had the advantage of unfair officiating. This is still a frequent excuse of the black teams when they visit the suburbs but the excuse holds little weight for two reasons: 1.) black teams get beaten at home and on neutral fields too, even in games with their own, all black referees; and 2.) blacks play the race card in every issue where the outcome is not in their favor; the race "trump card" is so overplayed that whites bend over backwards to appease them and often "cheat" in their favor instead.


Poor equipment and facilities at black high schools is often brought up but this excuse too is old and no longer, if ever, applicable. I don't know what equipment causes them to lose, shoulder pads maybe? But no matter, inner city school budgets have been increased to record levels and you know the first thing they buy with all that taxpayer cash is sports equipment and band uniforms.


Bad coaching is sometimes the excuse. But not in the sense that black coaches are less intelligent or anything like that, oh no, no one would ever say anything like that, it was always brought up as a matter of experience. Blacks, even in the inner cities had fewer coaching opportunities in days gone past because there were still white coaches in the system working on a pension. Well it's 2006 and white people have long ago deserted every big city in America in their race away from black crime, so if there are any white coaches left in the inner cities it can only be due to senility. Blacks have been coaching teams for decades, long enough to learn the game and develop programs and strategies that should be able to take advantage of their players supposed superior athletic ability.


None of these excuses can even partially explain away the dominance of white high school football players. But there are other excuses, ones you will not heard of spoken in public conversations. They are the ones that people use to explain why their cherished "athletes" get stomped in inner league high school play. These excuses illustrate the ways that white coaches really feel and it highlights the type of thinking that is really racist, unlike the plain truth as revealed here at Caste Football.


People will tell you that that an all-black team is un-coachable. Especially at the high school level where the home life is not ameliorated by living in a dorm as in college, including the the 24-7 counseling performed by school officials eager to boost minority enrollment. Major college teams often "stock" their rosters with well-behaved white students so the coaches only have to coddle (and police) the sometimes relatively small contingent of blacks that they start and play. As Caste Football has shown in its college write-ups, teams such as in the SEC for example, will often have over 70% white players on the roster with only 2 or 3 starting. Thus, unlike a high school team with dozens of gang bangers on the team, the major colleges only have to put up with a few and hope that the weight of well-behaved whites creates a more law-abiding environment.


Another excuse that is never spoken in public but dominates this discussion in private is that black high school teams are victims of their people's lower average intelligence. Since it is no secret that blacks score much lower academically than white people and certainly blacks in the inner cities would have the lowest of their own demographic, there is a cycle of ineptness that manifests itself in everything from game plans to scheduling.


Some point out that virtually any black endeavor of a large scale has the makings of a disaster, witness their failed attempts to run large cities and even countries. Thus the running of a football team which has all of the same challenges as running a small army, is beyond the capability of many blacks and causes them to go into big games unprepared.


A dearth of quarterback talent is frequently cited as a reason they lose in head-to-head match-ups with white schools. Even though major colleges seem to find more than their share of black QBs, it's no secret that even the best of the bunch were at the back of the line when they were handing out brains. If Vince Young's reported "6" on the Wonderlic test wasn't enough proof then consider Seattle Seahawks quarterback Seneca Wallace and his "remedial" tutoring classes so he can understand the plays. And remember these guys are the cream of the crop.


These excuses are all very appealing if one is disposed to think poorly of blacks and their culture. Caste Football does not buy any of it. Black teams get beat because the white players are better, and frequently they are better athletes. The excuses as mentioned above can be easily dismissed.


First off, football is not rocket science. Football coaches and fans might like to think it is, but it isn't. There are plenty of blacks with sufficient IQ levels to be fine coaches and administrators. I have known them myself. And anyone familiar with the game knows this to be true. Intelligent blacks are probably over-represented in the educational field as it has been so friendly towards them due to the inherent political leanings of teachers unions and their intimate connection to government.


Are black kids too unruly to make up good teams? To some extent there is truth to this as inner city life and poverty are difficult for anyone and the challenges there are great. But any disadvantage in this regard is offset by the almost religious fervor of the players. They know that football offers them an opportunity in a world of limited chances.


Blacks kids may have more problems but then again they have less distractions. They can live for their football team. White kids are often split into many sports, and have the money for hobbies and spend a lot of time with doting parents, not to mention are heavily pushed in academics as well. Meanwhile the inner city kid can spend nearly all of his time developing his football career. There is no disadvantage to the black high school team in this regard. It might also be noted that a less disciplined team will be "looser" in big games and play with more emotion, big advantages in hugely hyped inter-racial rivalries.


Yes black high school QBs are not very good. But so what? Most high school teams, both black and white, run the ball most of the time anyway, and the QB is little more then a glorified running back. Often the high school passing game consists of the kid with the strongest arm heaving it up to the fastest kid on the team. With this being the case then blacks should have a decided advantage as they are (once again) "supposedly" so much better in this regard. And hey, who cares if the white team has better quarterbacks? The black team has black cornerbacks, just like the NFL. And the black team passes against all-white cornerbacks, of which there are NONE in the NFL. It should be a cakewalk for black QBs to play against such slow "tight-hipped" defensive backfields. But it isn't.


Whites should have an advantage on special teams as black kids are miserable punters and place-kickers. This might make a difference if the games were close but they usually are not. And note that white high school teams have pretty bad kicking units too. It's almost always better to go for two after the TD, or pass up all but the shortest field goals even for the white teams as the kicking game in high school is nowhere near the level of what is seen in college or the pros.


Thus the confusing situation as it applies to race and football at the high school level. White teams are almost always better than black teams yet none of the white kids that handle the football are good enough to play at the next level. This unexplained quirk of the football recruiting process can only be explained by the racism of coaches and recruiters at the college levels.


It is a duel-edged racism too. To them whites are athletically inferior to blacks and only defeat them on the football field because the blacks are too stupid to take advantage of their superior talents. Only when the black "super athletes" are coached by the white coaches that recruit them (and only them) to play at Div. I-A schools can the latent talent of those players be developed.


But forget the excuses and the racism of college football coaches. White high school football players are just flat-out better and would be in college too if given a chance. And consider that it is generally felt that white kids mature physically a little later than black kids. That means that white kids are even potentially better than the head-to-head match ups illustrate. But don't tell that to Joe Paterno, Lloyd Carr, or anyone named Bowden. They can see past all of the facts and all of the evidence to know what is truly going on. And at Caste Football, so can we.


Matt Grootegoed:


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I am going to send thisexcellent article to a local sports show guru and ask for a response. I'll post the reply if I get one.
 

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JB, This may be the best of a the multitude of great columns. Incorporating the posts of caste football posters into your column as you and other column writers have done, has added a great flavor to the columns.
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This is perhaps your best work. This Negrophilia is some form of cult worship as best I can understand it. My first awakenings to the Caste system was in 1989 in my old small town stomping grounds. A friend's team picked up some wayward black kid from some inner city dump somehow and the local papers turned him into the next Gale Sayers. So I went to watch a playoff game to see the next great wonder, and to my suprise I found the white fullback to be a better runner because the black kid had one play, run for the edge till even the smallest player put an arm on him then he would fall down. Needless to say the great black hope went to Kansas to play tailback where they found out he wasn't and they made him the world's worst cornerback who couldn't pronounce "play action", and the fullback probably got a job in roofing.
 

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Great article! My local high school football team (all white) has played two all black teams recetnly and won both playoff games. They play in the largest divison in the state.


One important advantage all black teams have over all white teams is the psychological edge. White high school teams watch the NFL. And what do they see? Nearly all black teams, therby giving the impression that only blacks have the athletic ability to play at that level.


Dumb high school coaches can add to this effect.
For instance, I remember when my highshool football team lost to an all black NYC team. We were devestated. But before the game, the head coach would talk about the "speed" of the team and how they could jump right over us if we tried to cut block them. They basically psyched us out before we even stepped on the field. I doubt the new coach of my old team brings in race at all like those idiots.



Side note: I am in total agreement with views presented in this article. However, I am hesitant to present the article on widespread scale because I feel people may be turned off by the comments that aren't supposedly relevent to football, like the black crime statistics. It may turn some p.c. people totally off who otherwise may be in total agreement with everthing else.Edited by: Alpha Male
 
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I have been told that while a "white" team will beat a "black" team at the high school level, a black team will be better at the "next level." This is what a man who had been a high school referee once said to me. I assume this is the thinking of coaches.
 

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Another great article as usual JB! I have just one comment and that is that recent SEC teams have had 70% white rosters and just 2-3 whites starting. I just haven't seen this yet and I have looked. I have seen 60% black rosters starting 2-3 though.

Sport Historian, I too have heard that same comment before. Its just garbage though.
 

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another in a long line of excellent works! keep it up J.B.!

as for the morons who say that blacks will be better "at the next level," throwing a few facts at them should give them pause... point out that blacks tend to mature much earlier than whites and then ask why the white players who just won the game wouldn't have a higher talent ceiling than their black counterparts, and therefore more of the beloved "potential." they are simply perpetuating the false mythos of the vastly superior black athlete. ugh!
 
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I remember in 1966 when the Nashville Interscholastic League first had black high schools in the organization. The famous black high school Pearl, played the well-known Prep school, Montgomery Bell Academy in football. MBA beat Pearl 55-0, as I recall.

Twenty-five years later, the Nashville Tennessean ran an article about that game. The gist of the article, in so many words, was that the Pearl players were better athletes despite the score. MBA had better facilities, etc. Yes, that's what the piece said. Incidentally, Pearl's QB was Joe Gilliam, later with the Pittsburgh Steelers.
 

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Interesting e-mail received on this:
Just reading the article with Groetegood...I went to the rival high school, Servite, fifteen years earlier. Once again, LB Poly was #1. In fall '82 , Steve Beurlein torched them for 350 yards in a 31-6 ass - kicking in the CIF finals. Their entire defensive backfield ended up at UCLA and the NFL. Servite played them the next year...at jackrabbit stadium and wrecked 'em again 28-10 with Servite again winning the CIF title.
 
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