1) I liked the new format that alowed more teams to play but in virtually every division SoCal has numerical advanteges.....oh well
2) In the future it would be nice if the SJS and NCS went to the open format and allowed funner ups in the first few divisions.....an Elk Grove, Rocklin, Oakdale, or a team like Foothill would have represented us well
3) Bellarmine and Clayton Valley are great programs but will struggle at this level unless they develop a passing game. Their success is always predicated on being ahead.
4) Central Catholic is a mini DLS....what they do with that small of a school is incredible. It seems like a crime to push a school of 350 co-ed to Div 2 next year with schools of 2000.
5) Great to see the Northern section in a few games and winning them. Their are solid public schools up there that can compete with any other publics with similar enrollment numbers.

Does anyone have a clue on how to change your name moniker? Thanks in advance.

Kick offs of these 8 games happens at 6PM

I for one believe the CIF did a great job with this new format. Obviously the pairings were done with competitive equity in mind. The series for the season came down to literally the last quarter of the 2015 season with DLS edging the North over the South for the year. 7 games to 6. For the most part most games were competitive. A couple surprises to me with SHP and Campo getting dominated.
East Nic, a little school in South Sutter County with an enrollment of 280 taking the nearly 600 mile journey to San Diego to take on Coronado with an enrollment of 1200 slayed the dragon. Without this system EN with 2 losses probably would not have been given this chance without this new system. Del Oro with 6 losses the same and Sierra with 5 losses ( should have been Sutter, Yes I am still bitter LOL ) also would not have had this chance.
The only thing I would do different is start the season a week or 2 earlier so that winter sports are not affected by the multi sport athletes being on the grid iron a week before Christmas. I am sure there are some very talented Basketball players, wrestlers, soccer players and others that are needed for their teams.
It is now time to put a bow on the 2015 high school football season. What a year it was. Congrats to all the winners and the losers this weekend. For a State as large as ours, to be playing this far you have all done something right.
The Northern Section got two Champions this season. EN in Div 6 and yours truly in the annual, always fun NorCalPreps Pick EMS!! Here is to a very Merry Christmas to ALL of you and an extremely healthy happy New Year. I respect all of you for contributing to this awesome message board and thank you Streak 1 for all that you do. Seen you all on the other side of 2015. GO Sutter 2016.. I had to guys, sorry

Saturday 12/19 4th annual Hunt Memorial one day event at Evergreen Valley High School in San Jose. Schedule

11:00 Wilcox vs Willow Glen
12:30 Fremont vs Santa Teresa
2:00 Monta Vista vs Lincoln
4:00 Piedmont Hills vs Evergreen Valley
5:30 Cupertino vs Pioneer
7:00 Palo Alto vs Valley Christian

The 7:00 game matches two of the top CCS teams.

Rare 15-0 vs. 15-0 matchup. Kickoff is set for 4:00 PM

Tournament Starts Tomorrow! 32 teams, platinum and gold Brackets, 3 locations all within 6 min of each other. Brackets can be found on the tournament website, all platinum games will be shown on the cube. Also follow @onelove357 on twitter for constant updates!

Here is the bracket for the 2015 Roy Ghiggeri Invitational at Freedom HS:

Dec. 18:
5:30- Folsom vs. Marin Catholic
7:00- Edison vs. Freedom

Dec. 19:
4:30- 3rd Place Game
6:00- Championship Game

Who you going with in this one today? 3 pm at berkeley!

Socal Open Preview

Cardinal Newman 72 SI 38 final score at Presentation.

Im considering making the trip from San Francisco to Sac State for the game. My only fear is how packed is the stadium at this time. Anyone have an inside scoop?

First game on Saturday features the Ugly Eagles, who are making their second straight appearance in a state bowl

Kickoff is set for around 12:00 PM

CA State Bowl High School Football TV Schedule for Northern CA

Comcast Sports California will broadcast in Northern CA

CSN CA is available to Comcast subscribers, AT&T Uverse, Dish Network and Direct TV subscribers in the Bay area/Sac Area/Central Valley (different channel than CSN Bay Area). Comcast will be publishing other games to be broadcast.

CSN CA channels for the different television services by location = http://www.csncalifornia.com/page/channel-locations-csn-california

Norcal TV Broadcast Schedule

Friday

4:00 PM DO/Camarillo game live (Bay Area) Comcast 780
8:00 pm CIF Division I Class AA, Final: Bellarmine vs. Mission Viejo – Live


Saturday

1:00 am - CIF Division II Class AA, Final: Del Oro vs. Camarillo – Delayed broadcast

9:00 am - CIF Division I Class AA, Final: Bellarmine vs. Mission Viejo – Delayed Broadcast

12:00 pm - CIF Division I Class A, Final: Clayton Valley Charter vs. Narbonne – Live

4:00 pm - CIF Open Division Small School, Final: Central Catholic vs. San Marino - LIVE

8:00 pm - CIF Open Division, Final: De La Salle vs. Corona Centennial – LIVE

11:00 pm - CIF Division I Class A, Final: Clayton Valley Charter vs. Narbonne – Delayed Broadcast

Interesting result tonight...

Freedom 48, Monte Vista 46.

in the nation on the Freeman rankings. But not on the Excellent 25??

http://www.maxpreps.com/polls/basketball/xcellent25.htm

There should be a lot of folks at their tournament this week!

#4 in the Nation above Prolific Prep, but #4 in Sacramento Bee...lol

This game is set to get going at 8 PM. This is the third trip to Sacramento for Bellarmine this year.

I guess Riverdale Baptist couldn't wait for Nike TOC to post it...
So here we go the big enchilada...

http://sports.bluesombrero.com/Default.aspx?tabid=890493#q9

With the huge increase of bowl games this year, its good to see so many teams get their shot at a Bowl Game. When the games started in 2006, there were only three bowl games (6 teams) for 51 sectional champions. A couple years later, it increased to five bowl games (10 teams).

Then in 2012, the regional games were introduced. This action doubled the amount of teams getting a shot at a bowl game to 20 teams. Last year the Open division was removed from the regional level. This reduced the bowl opportunities down to 18 teams.

This year, 51 teams got a chance at a bowl game. And now, we can begin to see how the sections play out in a similar way as we have been evaluating the North/South teams. I say "we can begin to see" because there is still some subjectivity in how the 51 teams are aligned for bowl competition. But here is the run down of how the different sections fared in the regional games.

CCS had 5 regional bowl (RBG) slots and won 3 state bowl (SBG) slots. 60% success. This was the only section to use the CIF open division option for allowing non-champs to represent.

CS had 6 RBG slots and won 3 SBG slots. 50% success. The Central Section split their teams evenly between North and South. They won 2 SBG slots from the north (67% success) and 1 SBG slot from the south (33% success).

LAS had 3 RBG slots and won 1 SBG slot. 33% success.

NCS had 5 RBG slots and won 4 SBG slots. 80% success. They landed the SBG Open slot which allows a free passage to SBG. So in a sense, NCS won 3 RBG games (75% success) and DSL earned the 4th slot.

NS had 4 RBG slots and won 1 SBG slot. 25% success.

OS had 1 RBG slot and did not win a SBG slot. 0% success. Its important to note that under this current system, they, along with the SFS section, will either have 0% success or 100% success.

SDS had 6 RBG slots and won 4 SBG slots. 67% success.

SFS had 1 RBG slot and did not win a SBG slot. 0% success. As mentioned above, they, along with the OS section, will either have 0% success or 100% success.

SJS had 7 RBG slots and won 3 SBG slots. 43% success.

SS had 13 RBG slots and won 7 SBG slots. 54% success. Like the NCS section, they landed the SBG Open slot which allows a free passage to SBG for the South. So, really SS won 6 RBG games (50% success) and CC earned the 7th slot.

Aside from OS and SFS, The Northern Section and the Los Angeles Section fared the worst in the RBG games while the North Coast Section (with Open included) and San Diego Section did the best.

Anybody see this....
BTW today Mitty 78 Clet 64....so BC would beat Clet by 4

I've been reading on this board for years and people mudsling about this coach recruits, or this coach does this and this one doesn't. I'd be really interested to see what constitutes being a good coach? Open team coaches benefit from getting good players but they still have to be able to get them to play hard and win big games.

I don't know a lot of these coaches, personally, nor have I had the chance to see them practice. But I will tell you that there are a lot of underrated coaches out there that have success in public schools and it seems like they're doing a great job. Doug Sakamoto from Mission San Jose is a prime example of success at a public school. His team play fundamental, incredibly hard, and are fun to watch.

I would LOVE to see the tables turn. Sopek, Phillips, Malik, Salesian, Doc, SMB, and Tom G go to a public school and start it from the ground up. Take who they get and try to develop a program. Then we'd see if they were actually great coaches (which they probably could be-I don't know).

Does a great coach: win, develop, graduate, schedule cupcake teams to inflate their record? What is a good coach??

Ok, who has the 411 on Camarillo?

Bells O & Secondary showed up big time and left DO as the only SJS team left standing... Not bad for a team that "backed into the playoffs"...

DLS, Bells, DO... What's NorCals haul going to be this year?

What are your thoughts?

For those interested below is a link to the Sac State tailgating policy:
http://www.hornetsports.com/sports/fball/tailgatepolicy

Enjoy!