Week 2 WCAL Ranking based on 2 games
1. Serra (Good but clear weaknesses exposed by DLS)
2. St. Francis (Better than expected, but DLS will shed more light next week)
3. Riordan (D1 laden team still coalescing, but will they improve enough to compete with Pittsburg next week?)
4. St. Ignatius (Monster game coming up next week with Cathedral in San Diego)
5. Mitty (Might be better than expected, next week's game with M-A will tell more)
6. Valley Christian (Struggling with their old fashioned offense; Next week's game with Soquel will be an important barometer game)
7. Sacred Heart Cathedral (Next week's game with Wilcox will tell us more)
8. Bellarmine (Just plain struggling this year)

Full disclosure I have family on the Freshman and Varsity teams at Serra but will keep this real.
SF looks to be the front runner early. Riordan has talent all over the field. Serra in what has been told to me is a rebuild/down year is playing the toughest schedule in the schools history. The only thing that I saw that gave me hope for them long term is that they ran the ball up and down the field on DLS who should be this years sacrificial lamb in the Open game. I think SF wins the league and I will pick my Padres to win CCS.

Elstokes said:

This is will be his 5th year of high school.

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Obi is 16 years of age. His father played in the NBA and owns a tech company and sports complex for kids In nigeria. That is how rumors start. Completely untrue if someone was implying that statement about Obi.

Niklas227 said:

SI jumped to a 35-0 lead in the 1st half. The backups played the entire 2nd half of the game on both sides.

Final score 35-6 SI

After these last 2 weeks of football, St. Francis seems to be the most legit WCAL team.

Riordan is overrated

Valley Christian was overrated being ranked higher than SI

Serra is vulnerable and I think they'll have 2 losses in the WCAL

SI will only go as our QB goes and so far he's been disappointing as a 3 year starter

SHC looks to be the best amongst Bellarmine and Mitty

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Overrated? The season is only 2 games in ? Riordan lost to the #30 ranked team in the State in the closing minutes. SI beat the #261 rated team in CA and got dominated the week before. Hard for a D to stop a team when given a short field twice from turnovers and surviving a pick 6. 3 starters didn't even suit up including Lawson and at least 4 more didn't finish the game. The kids from foggy SF were cramping up in the 2nd half and still almost pulled it out with 2 sophomores scoring the last 3 TDs in their comeback attempt. Not gonna lie, the defense needs to vastly improve and unforced miscues need to be immediately addressed to make a run...Tough test @ Pitt this Friday will give a better assessment of where Riordan stands.
Serra will be ok and still is the team to beat. SF is playing awfully good right now. The tough non-league schedules for Riordan, Serra and SF will prepare them best for WCAL. Don't count out Mitty to make a statement this year, too. VC, SI and now Mitty will battle it out for the 4th spot in league. SHC could be a darkhorse, but the jury is still out based on their non-league SOS. SHP was picked to finished 3rd in the PAL Bay, so not their strongest squad. What's going on at Bellarmine?

THEOC89 said:

I don’t see Serra losing more then once…SF as the only team that can Beat Serra in league….

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This may well depend on Serra's surviving its first three contests, all of them vs. big, physical units.

SFcityfan said:

The board is, if nothing else it is consistent in wanting to drink Hatoraide, So keep one’s eyes On,… @colhenrylives who always stays truly consistent, meaning he doesn’t get to HIGH or LOW. He is better than most ( you know your names who #wannatabegurus ) and is ON POINT, as other do their best Skip Bayless impressions ( too many to list and basically too insignificant,…IMHO; so stop taking it personal); Aka stop doing skipless shuffle🤓😳🤓

TheR is know under present leadership is known to have a proficient and effective Offenses, the Defense is and has been known as there weak link as in last year. But here’s the special sauce: Defense will improve and it is being tested early this season To do that. And maybe that is what has been needed?

The @TheR naysayers can relished an early preseason stumbles, and honestly I welcome early board posting, so I can gather early receipts. But we all know the #ThePurpleRain is coming, so stay tune for forecast reports😳🤣😳🤣

🎤….drop

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HA!…. Skip Bayless Takes?…. YOU are the one who stated that Riordan was ready to “Challenge” Mater Dei for The Open Title…. 🤣🤣

Niklas227 said:

SI jumped to a 35-0 lead in the 1st half. The backups played the entire 2nd half of the game on both sides.

Final score 35-6 SI

After these last 2 weeks of football, St. Francis seems to be the most legit WCAL team.

Riordan is overrated

Valley Christian was overrated being ranked higher than SI

Serra is vulnerable and I think they'll have 2 losses in the WCAL

SI will only go as our QB goes and so far he's been disappointing as a 3 year starter

SHC looks to be the best amongst Bellarmine and Mitty

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I don’t see Serra losing more then once…SF as the only team that can Beat Serra in league….

colhenrylives said:

Bosco is a massive favorite over Serra. Not a good matchup at all. It could be really ugly. Serra's non-league sked is a nightmare.

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It's going to be ugly for sure.

kiddman32 said:

QB scrambles for a first down, but that’s the ball game! 35-21 final.

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I appreciated the play by play commentary. Thx brotha

I remember one time when this happened... I don't remember his name, but he played for St. Pat's-St. Vincent. He had to leave the team due to "aging out" in the middle of his senior season. At least that's what I heard...

Not trying to throw anyone or his school under the bus here, and it seems he and his team knew about it in advance and no sanctions or anything of that sort happened because he left voluntarily at the time he was supposed to.

Okay, that was me, I guess...

I usually do start my own thread, but got a little lazy.

CityBoy415 said:

Rumor is he's lost his eligibility due to being to old to play high school anymore

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This is will be his 5th year of high school.

carlmerritt said:

I see St. Mary’s beat Marin Catholic 35-16. Anyone make it to this game and have comments?

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I wasn’t at the game but tried to watch it on NFHS Network (kickoff was 11pm on my cruise ship). MC actually looked pretty good against SM early on, and actually scored first in the first quarter. SM defense tightened up later in the 2nd quarter.

SM QB Galvan threw a 64 yard TD pass to Moore to put the Rams up 21-14 late 2nd quarter. Pass was actually for 30 yards or so and Kenneth Moore did the rest of the work. Earlier Galvan had a 14 yard TD pass with 4th down and 5. Halftime score was 21-14 Rams.

SM received the kickoff to start the 2nd half and SM RB McClendon did much of the work on their opening third quarter drive and running it in from the 3yd line to extend the lead 28-14 early 3rd quarter. Both teams committed turnovers their next couple of series each. Into the 4th quarter, SM defense picked up a fumble and ran it back 50+ yards taking the ball inside the redzone. SM’s Galvan threw a TD pass to wide open Osani Gayles. Rams up 35-14 with just over 10 min left in the game.

Both teams inserted backups late 4th quarter with TK (Timmy Karagounis under center for SM). After a couple running plays, TK throws an INT. MC unable to score from getting the ball from the turnover. But, SM later has a bad snap around their own 15 yard line that resulted in a safety with SM recovering the ball in their own endzone. SM would kick off to MC as a result of the safety and MaxPreps score I believe is in correct as I recall MC scoring a late TD to close the gap to 35-22 before I fell asleep. I missed seeing if they scored the extra point but recall the game ended before I knocked out. It must have been around 2-2:30am for me. The ending was kind of a blur to me. MC looked good early on. But mistakes later in the game cost them from keeping up with the Rams. SM is good but they are not as good as last couple of years. SM will have a hard time competing against DLS in a couple of weeks (after their BYE), as they lost much of their team to SM’s largest graduating class on Varsity in some time. The Rams are very young and depend much on sophomore Osani Gayles and junior Kenneth Moore. I anticipate a bloodbath in a couple of weeks. lol

ayalar09 said:

Prolific has a 2027 kid named Obinna Ekezie who played his last season for Napa Christian, but will most likely play on Prolific National this year. Hes very good and one could argue he is the best big in the Bay Area right now. 6’11 and still growing, remind me a lot of Evan Mobley.

Non Prep, can’t go wrong with Riordans Nes Emeneke, who should be a huge problem this season for most teams, if he can stay healthy.

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Rumor is he's lost his eligibility due to being to old to play high school anymore

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colhenrylives said:

When you consider the long history of the CAL/WCAL, it's quite stunning to watch the Bellarmine program implode to the point that, yes, SHC will be a clear favorite to beat the Bells this year. Not so sure about a second SHC W in league play.

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probabilities are endless. Who knows SH could go winless or win 1 (most likely), 2 (conceivable), 3 (this win would need to be a perfect game), 4 (are we sure they arent just really good?) or 5 (I dont ever recall this ever happening) games. I still tab St. Francis to take the league title but for sure is nice to see SH not cellar dwelling and accumulating enough points to qualify for CCS.

one rule of thumb that correlates to Bellarmine as no one could ever foresee their football program sink like this is "nothing lasts forever". Did you ever think that Macy's would be gone?

iamgearyblvd said:

Coach Evans has nice Irish squad. My biggest question for them was is this season going to be different defensively as in did they put together a defense that has players that were physical and wants to tackle? Not a good measuring stick vs Soledad in week 1, but vs a SH Prep team that is a run heavy team and usually is a fundamentally sound team year in and year out proves to be very promising. Next week vs Wilcox, another run heavy team, will really be a good sample size how good this team could be.

I havent even gotten to the offense yet which seems to be running on all cylinders early. Flannigan is electric. Jenkins is showing that anything you throw his direction, he is catching it. Two-headed one-two punch at RB with Williams and newccomer Hughes is exciting. The offensive line is showing very nice cohesion. Oh yah they have a new guy at the other WR slot, Secrease which is making big time catches as well. And lastly, they got a gamer at QB.

Im starting to think they could finish as high as 3rd or 4tin in league from what I've seen so far. They are definitely not going to be the cellar dweller this season..

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When you consider the long history of the CAL/WCAL, it's quite stunning to watch the Bellarmine program implode to the point that, yes, SHC will be a clear favorite to beat the Bells this year. Not so sure about a second SHC W in league play.

Coach Evans has nice Irish squad. My biggest question for them was is this season going to be different defensively as in did they put together a defense that has players that were physical and wants to tackle? Not a good measuring stick vs Soledad in week 1, but vs a SH Prep team that is a run heavy team and usually is a fundamentally sound team year in and year out proves to be very promising. Next week vs Wilcox, another run heavy team, will really be a good sample size how good this team could be.

I havent even gotten to the offense yet which seems to be running on all cylinders early. Flannigan is electric. Jenkins is showing that anything you throw his direction, he is catching it. Two-headed one-two punch at RB with Williams and newccomer Hughes is exciting. The offensive line is showing very nice cohesion. Oh yah they have a new guy at the other WR slot, Secrease which is making big time catches as well. And lastly, they got a gamer at QB.

Im starting to think they could finish as high as 3rd or 4tin in league from what I've seen so far. They are definitely not going to be the cellar dweller this season..

SFcityfan said:

The board is, if nothing else it is consistent in wanting to drink Hatoraide, So keep one’s eyes On,… @colhenrylives who always stays truly consistent, meaning he doesn’t get to HIGH or LOW. He is better than most ( you know your names who #wannatabegurus ) and is ON POINT, as other do their best Skip Bayless impressions ( too many to list and basically too insignificant,…IMHO; so stop taking it personal); Aka stop doing skipless shuffle🤓😳🤓

TheR is know under present leadership is known to have a proficient and effective Offenses, the Defense is and has been known as there weak link as in last year. But here’s the special sauce: Defense will improve and it is being tested early this season To do that. And maybe that is what has been needed?

The @TheR naysayers can relished an early preseason stumbles, and honestly I welcome early board posting, so I can gather early receipts. But we all know the #ThePurpleRain is coming, so stay tune for forecast reports😳🤣😳🤣

🎤….drop

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Here's some good news: All of our blather will be moot by the end of November when wins and losses will dictate reality.

Niklas227 said:

SI jumped to a 35-0 lead in the 1st half. The backups played the entire 2nd half of the game on both sides.

Final score 35-6 SI

After these last 2 weeks, St. Francis seems to be the most legit.

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If SF beats DLS or keeps it close, you, sir, are correct, sir.

jordan24 said:

Other very good matchups for the upcoming weekend: Bosco @ Serra and Riordan @ Pitt.

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Bosco is a massive favorite over Serra. Not a good matchup at all. It could be really ugly. Serra's non-league sked is a nightmare.

concrete17 said:

What an embarrasment to the Village of Tracy that one of its turds slides into SF, pulled an Abbot & Costello robbery, panics, shoots his uncooperative victim then shoots himself, trips over his saggy pants,drops his gun and loses his shoes in the process while trying to flee at walking speed.

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Priceless!

colhenrylives said:

A mixed bag for WCAL this weekend. A 4-4 overall mark with vastly different opponents and SOS. A couple of takes: 1. Bellarmine program is a shambles and getting worse by the day; 2. Serra has serious work to do with Bosco on the immediate horizon; 3. St. Francis is consistent, solid and sound; 4. Riordan defense continues to struggle; 5. Valley Christian offense sputters again; 6. Mitty could be better than first thought; 7. SI vs. Tam proved little to nothing; 8. Kudos to SHC for going 2-0 but it gets harder from here on out (well, maybe with the exception of the Bellarmine game).

Best game of the upcoming weekend: Lancers at DLS.

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SI jumped to a 35-0 lead in the 1st half. The backups played the entire 2nd half of the game on both sides.

Final score 35-6 SI

After these last 2 weeks of football, St. Francis seems to be the most legit WCAL team.

Riordan is overrated

Valley Christian was overrated being ranked higher than SI

Serra is vulnerable and I think they'll have 2 losses in the WCAL

SI will only go as our QB goes and so far he's been disappointing as a 3 year starter

SHC looks to be the best amongst Bellarmine and Mitty