Coach's Corner: John Milledge Part 2

OUR BILL SHANKS CONTINUES HIS CONVERSATION WITH JOHN MILLEDGE ACADEMY FOOTBALL COACH J-T WALL IN THE COACH'S CORNER.

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You have a very special player, a mod foster and running back five 11, right?

At 200 pounds, he's committed to virginia.

He's a star player.

That's a great place to start with your offense.

Isn't it?

You know, you'd have to be living under a rock the last few years, not the middle number 20 is going to get the ball when you play.

And he's a special guy.

He sets the tone every day, you know, in the school, he sets the tone.

And then in the classroom, he sets the tone and we know he starts telling in the weight room and on the practice field and the game field.

So, i mean, he's a special guy and he knows it takes a lot of people around him to make him special.

And, um, you know, we just, we're hoping we get this thing in and, uh, give these guys a chance to play and put them out there and show what they can do.

Well, it's always great to have a star player like that.

Now, a quarterback who of course is important.

Cause you've got to get the ball to, to faucet you, you, you had two players who had to play last year, you had an injury.

So they're both coming back.

Tell us about that situation, how you expect that to kind of play out.

Yeah.

We got two seniors, two returning seniors and passionate mcdonald, a great job for us.

Um, you know, he ended up going out and getting hurt, um, mid, mid, mid season, um, and grace and hopkins stepped in and finished out the year quarterback and, uh, did a phenomenal job with us.

And, you know, patrick came in and played a few snaps in the state championship game.

But you know, to get him back in the playoffs was big for us at his free safety position.

Cause it's so valuable there.

Um, so they get out of the battle.

Now this summer, we still don't have an answer.

You know, we've got an upcoming sophomore and um, briggs ed who who's really throwing his hat in the ring too.

So, um, it's a special, special time.

And um, each one of these guys looks a little different each day and this is somebody who can be the most consistent, real quick, your offensive line, pretty experienced as well.

The kitchens, brothers, devin and kevin carson dire.

It's a pretty good, pretty good bulk upfront for you.

Yeah.

I mean these guys, they, uh, they know what to do.

You know, you got devin kitchens, his brother, kevin carson, um, connor colors, jv brooklyn's mulcair prints.

These guys, you know, so these guys, that's where we really got better last year, about week eight week nine, those guys started yelling a lot better if we had, you know, we dealt with some injuries last year that we'd never had to deal with.

Um, big time players going out and having to play, having to have, you know, forced to play different guys on.

It really helped us in the long run.

Being able to plug some of these guys in to be one way only guys.

Um, and that's,