the question is why ??

So my main question is why Westside can win football games in Macon and none of the other five can win on a consistent basis.
Westside started playing football in 1997 and they brought in Robert Davis to build the program. Yes that Robert Davis, a legendary football coach who won state titles and won 10 games a year every year.
He didn't get close to 10 wins that first year at Westside in his first year which was 1997, but the reason was the Seminoles only played five games that first year and they were non region games. Davis just wanted the new school to feel what I was like to win.
Guess what , they went 5-0.
The next year, playing a region schedule, Westside went 9-3 and made the second round of the playoffs. Davis got the Seminoles to a state championship game and had a 101-33 record in his years as the head coach.
He handed things off to Spoon Risper and these  are the only coaches that Westside has ever had.
So my number one reason for Westside's success and the other schools failures starts with culture.
Now what do I mean with culture? Well it's simple. Robert Davis won right off and people came to watch them win and young kids 20 years ago came to watch and guess what, the kids that watched then grew up wanting to play Westside football because they won. Don't tell me that winning doesn't breed enthusiasm because it surely does.
I was able to get four coaches in Bibb County schools now or at some time over the last five years or so, and they were open to talking about the issues, as long as I didn't use names. I totally understand that since the subject of winning has not really been brought up much.
One of the coaches I interviewed for this story told me plain and simple how things were when it comes to culture. "If I had a problem with a kid and we had to get on him at practice, he would go home and tell his mom or dad about what happened and right away the dad would be calling me asking me why I was having to discipline his son," the coach said. "It was like I did something wrong because I was trying to make his kid better. Now take that same situation to Peach County and have a player tell his dad that Chad Campbell jumped his butt at practice. Well the parent of that child is probably telling that kid to do what the coach says because he knows what he's talking about.These kids grew up wanting to play for Peach County. Is it that way for Rutland or Northeast kids ? I know that isn't the case in every scenario but I cant tell you how many parents I have had to talk to because I yelled at their kid at football practice."
According to a current high school coach, the story runs even deeper. "I feel like the main problem is the culture of Bibb County is selfish and apathetic," this coach said. "I think football programs are a good barometer of the community. The kids are scared to completely buy in to anything. To be honest I don't really know how much different it is at Westside these days. Macon teams win games when they have better athletes but how often do they win a game they should have lost compared to losing a game the should have won. But there is no doubt that stability in a program is very important"
So I believe that the culture of a school is very important. Southwest is a basketball school who expects to win basketball games and everyone knows that goes way back. Northeast has been a great girls basketball and track school for years and a pretty good boys basketball program. Rutland has even had some success in basketball and baseball while Howard has put together some decent baseball teams. Central behind Andre Taylor and Shelia Toombs, have churned out some very good basketball teams over the last 10 years. But lets face it, football is the money sport that all schools want to be good at. They don't announce homecoming queens at a soccer game.
Diluted populations of athletes- Bibb County has six public high schools to go with at least six private high schools and the talent level at each schools is highly diluted by that. "I thought there was a time a few years ago that we had a chance to make a run in the football playoffs because we had some talent, but when it came right down to it, we had about 20 very good football player and that was it," a loocal coach said. "We did not have enough depth to always have quality practices and when it came down to a game with a very good football team they would be able to beat us because they had 40 good football players. Macon is supporting so many schools that the talent level at each school just doesn't go very deep. Sure Houston County has a lot of schools, but every one of those schools is still 5A or higher. Macon schools are 3A or lower, which makes it tough."
To make matters worse, the age of specialization has taken off. It is now very unusual to see the best basketball players in the school play football anymore. "That has become a huge problem over the last six or seven years," said yet another area coach. "We lose some athletes because they just want to play one sport and they give up football. I think that has a lot to do with parents wanting kids to be great at one sport and maybe getting a scholarship instead of being good at three sports and not."
Poor grades are something that all coaches have to deal with. "If we lose one or two of our better athletes because of grades it hurts us tremendously," another local coach said. "I think it we, as football coaches do all we can to keep kids eligible and on track to graduate, but it just cant come from us. It has to be coming from home too.
So we have talked about some of the reasons why Bibb County has failed to win football games. Some of them are problems that every area has but others are not that big of a deal in other areas of the state.
The next blog will focus on working on solutions to the the problems.