I wonder if they (whomever "they" are) got the word from Cal-Hi Sports that Alberghini doesn't actually have the SJS wins record? Cal-Hi doesn't count forfeits, so he is five or six wins short by their reckoning. Not saying that it's a factor in the rumors, but it's a thing nonetheless.
Does it matter what Cal-Hi does counts or doesn’t count? It should only matter what the CIF/SJS considers official, right?
With that in mind, I have a full accounting of GHS games spanning their entire history. I only count Coach AL at 278 wins.
That 278 total includes 1 forfeit win in 1991 and also a game-shortened win in 2018 against Whitney (to my knowledge the CIF offically ruled it a Pacers win).
During Coach AL's tenure, they also have 3 ties in which the Pacers won what was then known as the "CA tiebreak" in all three games.
I believe Coach AL and Carl Reed are counting those three games as wins -- along with a 1996 game-shortened contest against Hiram Johnson (which was eventually ruled a "No Contest" by the SJS). Factoring in those 4 games as wins would have him at 282 (I brought this to a local media members attention awhile back).
But per my understanding, those 4 games should not count as wins. One was officially ruled "No Contest" by the SJS and the other 3 were ties.
Prior to the current overtime rules, CA tiebreakers were only used to break ties within leagues. But the outcome was officially recorded as a tie by the CIF/SJS.
Forfeit wins, however, are officially recorded and counted by the CIF/SJS unless they specifically rule the game "No Contest" for whatever reason(s).
So, with all that in mind, Coach AL's record should be 278-76-3.
As you correctly pointed out, Cal-Hi does not include forfeits in their official records. They only count "on-field" results.
But if the CIF/SJS record forfeited games as official W's and L's and use them to determine standings and playoff births -- shouldn't those results be including in team/coaching records?
I should think so. Which is how I arrived at the above numbers.