Macallan said:

Agreed...to have a tie for the top spot, and one of them includes Mack vs SRV...SMH

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in all fairness. mack and srv always play a very close high scoring entertaining game so based on the past few years people might expect more of the same if there not closely following the two teams. this years game will be a defensive battle decided by a couple big plays one way or another. but will definitely be one of the closer games of the ones on this list.

cityfan said:

"...I have a very close informant that told me 95% of their school's 8th grade class got into DLS. Some of those boys are C-minus students. I was always under the impression you had to get at least B's to get into the schools. Apparently not..."

I can confirm this is a true statement. Basically any 8th grade boy from a Concord/WC/PH parochial grade school that wants to will get in to DLS.

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you mean a catholic high school wants to accept kids from its feeder catholic schools? color us shocked

ThunderRam said:

There are some surprising voting results thus far.....

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Agreed...to have a tie for the top spot, and one of them includes Mack vs SRV...SMH

iamgearyblvd said:

Ive spoken to a few parents (some with kids still enrolled and some that have left), the ones that have stayed arent really thrilled with the academics there and the ones that have left have gone because the academics were not great. One's experience does not speak for all. And not singling out Riordan, because I have a very close informant that told me 95% of their school's 8th grade class got into DLS. Some of those boys are C-minus students. I was always under the impression you had to get at least B's to get into the schools. Apparently not.

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"...I have a very close informant that told me 95% of their school's 8th grade class got into DLS. Some of those boys are C-minus students. I was always under the impression you had to get at least B's to get into the schools. Apparently not..."

I can confirm this is a true statement. Basically any 8th grade boy from a Concord/WC/PH parochial grade school that wants to will get in to DLS.

Not sure but Mad Dog Madsen doing some nice recruiting over at CAL. Gotta think he would be a players coach given how he played the game.

No Monterey v Carmel?

ThunderRam said:

You're giving far too much credit, LL. I mean, can you point to one legit informative or insightful post he's ever made? His recent trashing of Jesuit's program doesn't at all demonstrate a person "in the know". Nor does his Folsom hyperbole.

The only strong interest and tenacity on display here is his relentless insistence on sophomoric trolling behavior.

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True, I'm thinking more of a few comments on the hoop board. Otherwise I totally agree.

ThunderRam said:

That's because you're a alumni homer. 🤣

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Well of course but even if I wasn't its a top 20 matchup of 2 smaller school teams that look to be in place to make a nice run.

But honestly the Jesuit vs GB game to me is one I'm going to be attending.

If Semetri isn't at Riordan any longer, where did he end up?

larry legend33 said:

2 games of interest to me.
1. Newman vs BOD. Newman has a lot of hopes for tipping the scales this year and beating MC but hasn't played anybody yet. BOD looks improved and has already wrestled with Monte Vista and Mack. The game is at Newman so I give a slide edge to CN but should be one of the better small school games in norcal. Newman will need to be able to pass a little and clean up the mistakes.

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That's because you're a alumni homer. 🤣

Streak One said:

Game of the Week Poll

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There are some surprising voting results thus far.....

bella123 said:

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Truth.

But in fairness to PITT, them playing against SJB is akin to SJB playing against a competent D1 college team. SJB would get rolled too.

If it were under the rules of yesteryear with kids "mostly" from the East Bay-Pittsburg area lining up against kids "mostly" from Bellflower, CA. I'd like the Pirates chances a lot better.

larry legend33 said:

Yup same guy. I will say this is a bit comical and enjoyable at times and "he" does get out and watch hs sports. I'm not saying he's breaking down the game like a coach would but he clearly has a strong interest in the hs game. A real tenacious one.

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You're giving far too much credit, LL. I mean, can you point to one legit informative or insightful post he's ever made? His recent trashing of Jesuit's program doesn't at all demonstrate a person "in the know". Nor does his Folsom hyperbole.

The only strong interest and tenacity on display here is his relentless insistence on sophomoric trolling behavior.

HSWIZARD73 said:

Does anyone else besides myself think that this might be the Folsom clown that used to post on here all the time.

He speaks about administrations. He talks about programs being dead. Sounds kind of familiar. In could be wrong but would place a gentleman’s bet that it is the same guy.

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I recently hinted at the possibility of it being a burner account when I advised the clown to step up his game or prepare to be ignored en mass.

Just too many red flags to ignore. If the sophomoric handle wasn't enough, the content was even worse. He was added to my ignore list pretty quickly thereafter.

The humorous part is that this clown actually believes he's being clever by adding red herrings, such as trashing the SFL, NorCal, and mixing in the occasional barb toward Folsom. What's even more hilarious is how much time and effort he spends doing all this. I mean, how long has this been going on now? Close to a decade??

If it isn't everyone's least favorite Folsom Maxpreps reporter, then it's someone really going out of their way to make everyone believe it's him. There's only one other known troll-ish personality I can think of that would go to all that trouble. I won't mention the name, but that person also fits the M.O.

I'd bet to a 95% certainty that it's one of the two. Thankfully, we have the ignore feature the rely upon.

thehookup55 said:

That 2002 team was a fun team to watch. Ruthless defense. Neligh, Dozier, Taylor, etc. were animals.

I can't recall but was DI treated like the open back then? or was it all enrollment based? I know the open was created a couple years later that had multiple publics opt in nearly ever year.

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The divisions were enrollment based at that point. Salinas had won D-II over Hollister the prior year, so Coach Ironside felt the next logical step was D-I.

In order to be able to opt up, you had to finish among the top 8 in the CCS in terms of playoff points.

2002 was also the year the they finally beat Palma. First time the Chieftains had lost to a Monterey County team in some 20 years.

Streak One said:

Here are the games for this week. Picks are due by 7:00 PM on Friday

San Marin at Casa Grande
Liberty at Amador Valley
Bishop O’Dowd at Cardinal Newman
San Ramon Valley at McClymonds
Edison-Stockton at Downey
Central Catholic at Patterson
Bear River at Wheatland
Rocklin at Folsom
Gunn at Monta Vista
Hillsdale at Santa Teresa

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10Folsom
9Downey
8Cardinal Newman
7SRV
6San Marin
5patterson
4Bear River
3Santa Teresa
2Gunn
1AV

GUYS...After four rounds of High School Football...There were 58 teams that were undefeated, but only the following teams won four games
Ponderosa 4-0,Downey 4-0,,Franklin El Grove 4-0,Placer 4-0, Twelve ridges 4-0, Del Csmpo 4-0, West Park 4-0,
Rodriquez 4-0,Vanden 4-0, East Union 4-0...This next round will see a number of teams fall to the undefeated.
Teams to watch are Placer, Twelve Bridges and Del Campo, Another group to watchi is Cardinal Newman, Windsor and
San Marin

Still we may see some teams winning attention and they are Sonoma Valley Terra Linda and American Canon...All nine trams are 4-0, so the question is how long will they last...

They play Monterey this week which should be a good game. Monterey returns most key players from last season

FormerD1Backer said:

Sorry, I meant to post that comment on Moist n Plump’s last comment🤣

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GUYS..What happened to Freedom was it was an area of new homes, but the population that moved into it changed every thing..A lot of these homes were sceduled to a section 8 and what happened is what you see. Grades are a killer here and it went down hill right away, in the early years saw many skill players grad and move on but none ever showed up... The followingwas good and it went down hill as you see now..

Streak One said:

Here are the games for this week. Picks are due by 7:00 PM on Friday

San Marin at Casa Grande
Liberty at Amador Valley
Bishop O’Dowd at Cardinal Newman
San Ramon Valley at McClymonds
Edison-Stockton at Downey
Central Catholic at Patterson
Bear River at Wheatland
Rocklin at Folsom
Gunn at Monta Vista
Hillsdale at Santa Teresa

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FBAddict said:

This round is going to be a lot harder...

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10. Central Catholic 45, Patterson 28.
9. Downey 42, Edison 35.
8. McClymonds 28, San Ramon Valley 24.
7. Folsom 38, Rocklin 28.
6. Cardinal Newman 30, Bishop O’Dowd 14.
5. Amador Valley 35, Liberty 27.
4. San Marin 28, Casa Grande 22.
3. Monta Vista 29, Gunn 28.
2. Hillsdale 15, Santa Teresa 14.
1. Wheatland 24, Bear River 21.

kiddman32 said:

No St. John Bosco @ Pittsburg ??

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MOlST AND PLUMP said:

carmel has been super impressive so far they are the clear favorite to win a lower level ccs division

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They will be heavy favorites for DIII.

MOlST AND PLUMP said:

this is great news if confirmed. we all deserve to have a bellarmine that cares.

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Now that you have solved this…. Did you ever get to the bottom of what is going on at Freedom?….. We are all dying to know…. 🤣🍻

carmel has been super impressive so far they are the clear favorite to win a lower level ccs division