Beam is ****in legit. Much love to Alonzo Carter who is now coaching RBs at San Jose State but people forget about John Beam. McClymonds was not relevant in Oakland until Beam left for Laney. Sure, Carter (and Peters for that matter) turned Mack into the machine it now is. Sure, Carter went to Berkeley and made them very good. Sure, Carter resurrected CCC from the dead. Meanwhile, Beam was hiding in the cuts, made Laney cool again and is now on the doorstep of a State Championship. Crazy to think the OAL had two coaches of that caliber at one point. And if you think Laney isn't here to stay, don't say I didn't tell you so.
That said, same can be said about George Rush. Nobody was winning a damn thing in Northern California until Rush decided to hang them up. Not Beam, not Carter, not Uchiumi, not Owens, Pollack or Tulloch. George ****in Rush.
Go Eagles!