Edison travels to San Francisco Dec 20th to face RIordan at the Crusader Forum. I do not recall if these teams have ever faced off? Should be a good game! Weston Ranch goes up against Riordan at the NorCal Tip-off. Great to see out of Section teams playing each other.
My point is the school did something right and got kids to come here for basketball even from Walnut Creek, etc....They gradually continued to do everything wrong year after year after firing the coach and hemorrhaged everybody that was left. Not taking it out on the kids or thinking selfishly but SHC basketball has not been great since Barbour left and I would say McKay did ok too without any dynamite stars. Hopefully, Smith and company can improve and turn the corner to attract more talent again because Riordan and SI have been and Im saying that in no disrespect to the kids playing currently at SHC for basketball. Can you tell me why the school got rid of Barbour or what really happened because he was a championship coach? Was it really just disgruntled parents, smh?
Coach Bryan Thomasson comes over from RIordan’s JVs to be the Irish JV coach. He runs the SF Soldiers (SFWorkHardPlayHard) program. He’s a very good coach/mentor and his kids have gone on to all the SF Schools and around the Bay…Sorry to see him leave.
MacKay did ok????? He freakin' coached a team to a CCS Open title!!!!!!!!! not D3...... not D1......
@ankleassassin not sure. Coach Thomasson played for Jefferson High in Daly City and led the team to a State Title that year.
He did great with what he had to work with...No disagreement. Also, Russell was awesome, that was a loss for the program, hope it was his choice.
Sheldon just added a very good 6-8 transfer so they might be the best team in sac. Although I believe it’s his third transfer so who knows his eligibility status.
Open and then what? sounds like the lakers bubble ring- 1 positive and whole lot of opposite. They had a hard time getting players to go there
Also...Barbour went on to coach at Mt. Eden with less than stellar results so yes SHC ADs should and deserve some of the blame...The last 5-10 years SHC basketball has reversed its spot with Valley Christian in the WCAL as a comparison to the standings. That is quite a fall. Hopefully, Caesar Smith, an SHC alumnus will get the program turned around and exciting again in the near future. He seems to be assembling a good coaching group as we continue.
The EBAL will be a dogfight for sure. On top of Dougherty, Dublin, De La, Granada & SRV, Cal High was improved and had no seniors last season and Monte Vista was young last season with a rare off year and will be much improved as well. Every night will be a grind!
Tyler Harris to Granada from Salesian
Be careful, you know Prolific Prep is lurking. They already took a open contending team from Riordan before.
They did dethrone Mitty in the CCS Open with a team without the PP transfers and went to OT the year before. I would say Coach Curtin did a good job in bringing this squad together to make it to the NorCal Open Final 4. How a CCS Open champ had to open on the road to De La Salle is another thing. Wow
But remember LL, the D4 state game isn’t near what it used to be. It just means they were placed below D3, and there were 48 better teams in D1-D2-D3 plus all the Open teams. There’s not much difference between being a low seed in D3 and a high seed in D4, except the D4 team was seeded lower and gets to go to a state game, whereas the D3 team that was deemed better became canon fodder for a high D3 team.
Good points. But I would say this year they will beat plenty of d2-d3 teams.
A team that is not getting recognition is Justin Siena. I look for big things coming from them
Justin-Siena does have 11 returners from last year's team, including the entire starting 5. Remember, though, they were 5-7 in the VVAL, which is not one of the State's premier leagues. They benefited considerably from the competitive equity matrix last season. With that being said, they should be competitive this year. They open the De La Salle tournament next week with Santa Margarita, so we will have a better idea how good they are in a few weeks.
I saw they made easy work of Rodriguez High School from Fairfield who typically is a playoff team.
