cal83dls79 said:I remember when stanfurd didn't want to play cal in rugby and how this board lit up. The public schools need to step it up and stop *****ing .StillABear1 said:
Agreed. The Trinity League (Southern Section) is essentially a collection of super prep teams and then there is essentially just DLS as a near equivalent in the North. Unfortunately, it's the adults that have taken high school athletics and turned it into a business rather than what it used to be, a great HS activity coached by PE teachers from the school.
The public schools simply cannot compete and these private school powerhouses should simply form their own division, outside of the CIF, and compete nationally. Much like basketball has done with programs like Prolific Prep in Napa. I enjoy watching a team like Central or Centennial, in prior years, achieve success because they are public schools, although I acknowledge not all of them are true to their borders.
Baseball has gone the same way in many respects. Travel ball outpacing local LL and Babe Ruth where kids get to play with and against their friends and neighbors. Too many adults making a living off of the dreams of parents, not the children, that a college scholarship and/or MLB future is possible.
Back nearly 20 years now, I went to the Ygnacio Valley-De La Salle game at DLS. It was a time when Ygnacio was very good, I believe coached by a young Tim Murphy, now at CVC. They walked up Oak Grove to Treat, as the schools fields are adjacent, 2x2 and it looked like a JC team in size. It felt like a battle was to ensue. It was a great HS atmosphere. That being said, DLS was loaded, including perhaps the best high school football player I've ever seen in DJ Williams.
At halftime, I was speaking to one of the DLS parents, whose son was one of their stars, and he told me that 11 of DLS's starting 22 lived in the Ygnacio district and so it added to the intrigue and battle intensity. At the half, it was DLS up 22-18, if I remember correctly at a time. DLS was destroying people, so it was quite a surprise and Ygnacio was holding their own on the LOS. DLS turned DJ loose in the 2H and won 70-38. Ygnacio scored more points than all the opponents had scored combined coming into the game.
What was clear to me, was that public schools, even really good ones, which Ygnacio was at the time with several D1 prospects and a large roster, no longer had any chance. Now fast forward to today, even the relatively strong EBAL teams, as well as Pitt and Liberty, are unable to hang competitively with DLS. It's essentially game over for the public school programs for championships unless the CIF creates divisions (Public and Private championships separately and even then the MD and SJB type teams should fold into a nation-wide super league.
Well, I for one am embarrassed by the advantages afforded to private schools.
Sincerely,
Tony ... SHC alum 1976
PS. SHC 0-10 in 2019.
PS1. We went 0-10 two years in a row in 1972-73 and had "0-10 Never Again" t-shirts made. No kidding.
I should start a poll. Worst t-shirt: Toughest Team Wins vs. 0-10 Never Again.
Either way I lose. I'm an alum of both schools.