Couple things
1. Congrats Coach Ballard
2. The academics of the overall school and athletes don't always matchup for example every senior athlete in the class of 2017 graduated.
3. The whole Coach Ab discouraging players is true several players mentioned to me that one senior athlete was told that if he went to football practice instead of open gym he wouldn't play basketball at all.
4. The players had a mentor in Coach Reid but after the 2017 seniors graduated there was no longer in team leadership and a simple lack of passion for football.