Bubba, I'm guessing you don't know much about the Lamorinda community, especially as it relates to high school football. Campolindo gets zero football athletes from the city of Orinda. The football rivalry between Miramonte and Campolindo goes back to the 60's and school allegiance runs deep. Campolindo draws its students from Moraga and Lafayette, exclusively; from a population base of about 30,000 people. If you are looking to find a reason Campolindo has had a dominant run the last 5 years (64-5), look no further than the coaching staff Coach Macy has put together. The majority of his coaching staff has been together for over 20 years. They run a sophisticated offense that has more similarities with college offenses than what you see at the high school level. Coach Macy has been running a wildly successful local football camp in Moraga for over 15 years and similar to the De La Salle phenomenon, a higher percentage of Moraga and Lafayette boys are wanting to play tackle football for Coach Macy than what used to show up previously. His coaching style and personality endears him to not only his players, but to the community at large. He certainly downplays the success his team is enjoying, to a fault; but, he certainly squeezes more athletic ability from these well-to-do suburban teenagers than any program not named De La Salle.
Milpitas will certainly pose the toughest challenge for Campolindo to date. Milpitas, just like Napa and Bishop O'Dowd, will be bigger on the OL/DL than Campo, but that has been generally the rule more than the exception over the years. Coach Macy has been able to create 3 distinct teams with different strengths, over the past 5 years, and qualify them to the State Regionals and beyond, mainly because he and his coaching staff make better pre-game and in-game adjustments than his counterparts.
Campo has by far the lowest Freeman ranking of their 4 team state DIII-AA bracket and is likely a underdog to Milpitas, but I get the feeling Coach Macy wouldn't have it any other way.
