Pulling up to All-Star Sports Training in Paisley, Florida for the first day of the Top Gun camp I was a bit skeptical.  You drive down a 1/4 mile dirt road and the first thing that you see is about 10 long horn bulls.  This was going to be my office for the next two weeks and I was not sure what to expect.  I have visited and trained at many training facilities but none of them had livestock to my knowledge.  Yet little did I know I was stumbling onto a football player’s training oasis in the middle of Florida and for two weeks it would be housing the top football players in the country.

The first three camps had unbelievable talent and averaged around 15 of the 80 athletes at each camp training at our Athletic Republic training centers.  This is an amazing figure considering these kids are chosen from all across the country and 20% had gone through our program. Yet I would not understand the true future of College Football until the final group of Athletes arrived at All-Star Sports Training on Wednesday afternoon.

The final group is all going into their senior year with a few invited juniors was so much fun to both watch and train.  Even though we had two huge storms which limited our time on the field with the final group we were still able to put them through some football specific Fusion Timing & Reaction system drills that tested both the reactive and physical ability of the kids.

After 33 FBU camps and 4 top gun camps there are two things I have come to realize: 1) There is a lot of raw talent out there and with the technology Athletic Republic has in their training centers we can make a huge impact on an athlete; 2) Even though people say that frog legs taste like chicken I don’t agree.