High school football down here is a business. Especially with NIL emerging, I soon expect that football in Sacramento and Central Valley, where they have the demographics to support the game, will start turning into a business like it is here in SoCal. Now for Silicon Valley and SF, yes I agree football is just an extracurricular activity. Football is just something that the kids put on their application to harvard or yale where their dad went, and then when they graduate they will work for their dad's business or dad's friends business.
Down here in the IE we're not born with the silver spoon like you silicon valley/SF millionaires are. Football is a game for you, it's life for us! Those privileged kids get to play football, we have to play football!! If it wasn't for the game, a lot of these kids in IE and south LA/inner city would never go to college. We don't have guaranteed offers to tech/VC/PE/investment banks like those SF and Silicon Valley kids with the easy life and connections.
And as far as basketball goes, all I have seen in the past 10 years is MD, Chino Hills, Cen10, and Sierra Canyon dominating the state. I have heard of nothing from DLS! In fact I remember the local public school in Walnut Creek, Las Lomas, made it to state and lost to an Onyeka Okungwu led Chino Hills.
Anyone that runs an outdated offensive scheme with a sloppy defense, losing to 2 silicon valley teams, is not a good coach. He needs to go. This guy and the AD Lopoz will continue to lead DLS down. I don't think they will beat St. Mary of Central Valley in a few weeks. After so many losses, they need to adapt to the market and get caught up with the times.