Coach Saunders won’t make it to next season. Lost to a Bellarmine squad that isn’t great. Lost to Menlo School and just got BEAT DOWN 41-3 by Wilcox. Woah….
Menlo Atherton
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It should be noted that the previous M-A mentor was driven out by parents after just one season on the job. That guy never had a chance. Neither does Saunders.
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Sounds like another mentor going to be shredded in the whirling blades of hovering helicopter parents.
No doubt. High expectations by the M-A bleacher coaches.
IS M-A really a good job? Ravipati had great success, but IMHO, the pressure to continue winning state titles while still holding a full time job proved too much. And all new coaches are compared to Ravipati at that place.
Also, there is ALOT of behind the scenes work at MA just to keep players on track and on the field - "Built by MA". Pappin was a pretty good hire and he was bounced after 1 season AND THEY WON THE LEAGUE. Now Saunders won't even make it to next season? MA will probably be mid to bottom of the league. But the Bay is the one of the best "mostly" public school leagues out there. Who are they gonna hire if they bounce yet another coach? And by they, I mostly mean the people in the STANDS supporting all those POWER 5 recruits out there. We have a ref shortage and next will be a coach shortage if these impossible standards continue. This is not NCAA or NFL. Most HS coaches get paid less than $7,000 per year.
ease up on Saunders.
Also, there is ALOT of behind the scenes work at MA just to keep players on track and on the field - "Built by MA". Pappin was a pretty good hire and he was bounced after 1 season AND THEY WON THE LEAGUE. Now Saunders won't even make it to next season? MA will probably be mid to bottom of the league. But the Bay is the one of the best "mostly" public school leagues out there. Who are they gonna hire if they bounce yet another coach? And by they, I mostly mean the people in the STANDS supporting all those POWER 5 recruits out there. We have a ref shortage and next will be a coach shortage if these impossible standards continue. This is not NCAA or NFL. Most HS coaches get paid less than $7,000 per year.
ease up on Saunders.
Ravipati brought the "Built for Life" personal development program to Riordan, something he instituted at M-A. It’s a program for players to “grow and develop as people, and build what it takes to be consistently successful,
its "Menlo ----Atherton" maybe 50-50 but alot of those kids are set up quite well and dont really need a "built 4 life" football coach
Sounds like he followed the lead of the all boys school on the mid peninsula
just bumping this to point out that coach saunders is still at menlo and atherton, they are absolutely thriving, and are favorites to win there league and make a deep playoff run this year. stop trying to slander a good man and a good coach.
Some notes after Week 3: Mitty shut out M-A last week; unbeaten Los Gatos is the heavy favorite to win the PAL Bay Division title in 2024. M-A is expected to vie with Wilcox for second place. M-A should be favored in its remaining league games vs. Paly, Menlo School and SHP.
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los gatos has a good team this year but they have played nobody in preseason and I think that will show when the chips are on the table against vs. menlo and atherton. that game is the de facto league championship but menlo and atherton are the clear favorites
wilcox are what they always are. a scrappy team with tough kids, there coaches are experienced good people who run a quality program, on the field they run the veer but there execution is never great and teams that have seen the veer before and can execute a gameplan usually pull away in the second half. if they could figure out how to incorporate the forward pass into there offense they would be on to something in years where they have speed.
no it is a public school on the same street. the kids from epa go there. menlo school is the private one.
I think I knew that, I just didn't understand why rwccaptain42 was saying a lot of these kids are set up well. What about the kids that aren't set up well?
And Sacred Prep ($55K/year) is virtually next door to Menlo School. Their annual football game was affectionately called the BMW bowl, now updated to be called the Tesla Bowl. Lol.
That's a rather affluent area in general. Of course, not every home in M-A's district is affluent, but I'm guessing that not too many are fighting the poverty level.
The majority of kids at M-A are wealthy?
I didn't know that, I thought the majority were from East Palo Alto.
and what is the average price of a home now in epa? even there violent crime is all the way down to menlo park and atherton levels by statistics. epa today is not the epa of a few decades ago.
It's about half - EPA and Menlo Park/Atherton. I know an Atherton family had their kids transfer from St. Francis and were pleased as both moved on to 4 year colleges.
I had no idea that EPA was a wealthy millionaire hub at this point.
I was taking to a buddy a few months ago that was telling me about the talent that comes out of EPA.
I stand corrected.
every time a home gets sold in epa the football team at menlo and atherton gives up another touchdown on the scoreboard.
M/P to clarify there are 2 HS in Atherton Sacred Heart Prep and Menlo. Both private 60k ish tuition. Literally a few hundred hards from each other.
Menlo Atherton is the public school which is about 1 mile away. Plenty of $$$at M.A as well and yes they draw some good talent from EPA
Menlo Atherton is the public school which is about 1 mile away. Plenty of $$$at M.A as well and yes they draw some good talent from EPA
Menlo Atherton is either overrated or St. Ignatius is highly underrated because while we’re close in the local newspaper rankings. It wasn’t close when both teams scrimmaged a week before the pre-season started.
Your using a scrimmage as a barometer for comparing teams? Seems really solid.
Did these two teams play each other last night or do they play today?
I didn't see anything in this week's scores thread about this game.
LG 21, M-A 14. Game was closer than your correspondent anticipated. So, kudos to the Bears for making this a very competitive affair.
