Prep Notebook: Knights' success goes beyond high school field

North County football coach Gary Liddick wants everyone to know the Knights can not only produce collegiate players, they can produce students, too.

"At North County, we had a lot of kids who could go on and play," Liddick said recently while supervising weight training. "I had coaches here making offers at the schools, and the kids wouldn't go. We started getting this reputation that … you weren't going to play college if you played at North County."

Liddick, in his sixth year as North County's head coach, believes that stigma is erased.

Marice Royster (Tennessee State), Will...