What's actually easy is to always blame the kids for the coaches failures. Bobby August had the same talent pool available to him as Larry Neauman had. At PNG, Ken Watson had the same talent pool as Doug Ethridge had available. In the 6 years Watson was the HC, he only made the playoffs 1 time and lost in the first round. His last three years he had one of the best running backs in Texas, "The Jet". Should have made a run at the State Title. My opinion. Everyone knows the success Ethridge had. The previous coach at Carthage had the same talent pool available as Surratt has. I could keep going.
As I always say: There's no future in consistently blaming the kids and giving the coach a pass. If you want a good program, then you find the best coach available. And if that doesn't work out then you keep looking and hope you eventually hit the jackpot like Aledo, Carthage and others have.