The Truth Uncovered

[The Brooklyn Kid]

Very interesting to read an article that appeared in the Sacramento Bee regarding the teams in the SFL and how each is impacted by transfers who came into their respective programs after starting high school elsewhere.

"The Bee reviewed varsity football rosters for every team in the Sierra Foothill League and checked four years of data from the Sac-Joaquin Section to find how many kids moved into a school’s football program after they already had started high school. Folsom had 18 kids on their roster last year who transferred into the program.

Folsom’s 18 transfers are an eye-popping number, but the quality of those transfers is also impressive. They include the team’s top receiver, two quarterbacks and starting tight end".

Source: Sacramento Bee

I think that is a true measure of why Folsom has emerged as a power in Northern California high school football.

 

[HSfan82]

Some teams only have 20-22 guys on roster and they get 18 transfers.. makes you wonder🤔

 

[pastyfastquick3]

Very interesting to read an article that appeared in the Sacramento Bee regarding the teams in the SFL and how each is impacted by transfers who came into their respective programs after starting high school elsewhere.

"The Bee reviewed varsity football rosters for every team in the Sierra Foothill League and checked four years of data from the Sac-Joaquin Section to find how many kids moved into a school’s football program after they already had started high school. Folsom had 18 kids on their roster last year who transferred into the program.

Folsom’s 18 transfers are an eye-popping number, but the quality of those transfers is also impressive. They include the team’s top receiver, two quarterbacks and starting tight end".

Source: Sacramento Bee

I think that is a true measure of why Folsom has emerged as a power in Northern California high school football.

Yawn, @Santa Ball posted this a long time ago.

Funny this is even a thing considering this whole forum has been cheering on MD and SJB for years now, begging Folsom to play them lol

 

[ThunderRam]

Being a school in an open-enrollment school district plays a huge factor.

Cordova benefitted from it from the 1960’s up until circa 1993 when Mather AFB closed.

Folsom has carried on that tradition since roughly 2005 and since the city started seeing a significant population increase.

I don’t see it as a coincidence that both public school programs that have dominated the area for a substantial amount of time while pulling in a significant amount of transfers are in the same school district …. Folsom-Cordova.

When the likes of Nevada Union and Grant Union were dominating the landscape in the 1980’s through the early 2000’s they were doing so largely with the kids from the Grass Valley and DPH areas respectively. That’s not to say that neither landed transfers, because they did. But the volume was much smaller as both programs are in a closed school district.

Most publics in the Sac metro area are limited by being in a closed school district. The ones that were able to land more transfers than the norm — like say Del Oro — did so because they offered academic/extracurricular programs not widely available elsewhere (e.g. an agricultural program). Parents/student athletes took advantage of the loophole to get their kids in schools they normally couldn’t get into since they lived out-of-area.

But school districts such as Folsom-Cordova and San Juan Unified didn’t have the same restrictions. IDK if SJUSD is still open or not, but it was when I attended. We had kids from the other side of town at my HS.

Anyway, having an open district doesn’t guarantee transfers or success but it does make it much more possible once a brand name is built. And that’s precisely what Folsom has done and why they are continuing to draw the top athletes in the region — just as Cordova did decades before them.

 

[mistark]

The great schools will always get transfers when they are surrounded by underpreforming schools. Folsom and Cordova. MT with Florin and Valley. Sac High (best years) vs all the SCUSD. Look at Sutter when RV and Yuba got good, Sutter took a step back. RV gets bad, Yuba hc (Ithiburn resigns) Yuba drops, Sutter is loaded again. There will always be outliers (18 is crazy) but parents are willing to do whatever (rt or wrong) when they think taking lil Johnny to school X will get him a scholarship.

 

[pastyfastquick3]

"The truth uncovered."

Like it was the big bombshell lol. What a flame out

 

[Truthhertz]

Miner Pride 83

 

[LecheDeMiPalo]

The only real difference between Folsom and the likes of a Mater Dei / St John Bosco / Serra is the backing from the Archdiocese.

Someone will eventually nuke Folsom’s program like they did Bellevue’s and it will be ugly. Like a turning the lights on a pack of kitchen cockroaches in the middle of the night type ugly. And that is because Folsom is doing what they do one their own and at their own risk.

These privates have the backing of the Archdiocese. The minute someone nukes them the will straight go atomic. Look at the MD scandal last year. Huge deal that went beyond beyond recruiting. Archdiocese threw a little $$$ and made it all disappear.

 

[Rocknrolus 95361]

The great schools will always get transfers when they are surrounded by underpreforming schools. Folsom and Cordova. MT with Florin and Valley. Sac High (best years) vs all the SCUSD. Look at Sutter when RV and Yuba got good, Sutter took a step back. RV gets bad, Yuba hc (Ithiburn resigns) Yuba drops, Sutter is loaded again. There will always be outliers (18 is crazy) but parents are willing to do whatever (rt or wrong) when they think taking lil Johnny to school X will get him a scholarship.

Sutter is a regional team! I talked to a couple of Sutter parents at Nor-Cal bowl game. They get multiple kids from neighboring towns.

 

[pastyfastquick3]

The only real difference between Folsom and the likes of a Mater Dei / St John Bosco / Serra is the backing from the Archdiocese.

Someone will eventually nuke Folsom’s program like they did Bellevue’s and it will be ugly. Like a turning the lights on a pack of kitchen cockroaches in the middle of the night type ugly. And that is because Folsom is doing what they do one their own and at their own risk.

These privates have the backing of the Archdiocese. The minute someone nukes them the will straight go atomic. Look at the MD scandal last year. Huge deal that went beyond beyond recruiting. Archdiocese threw a little $$$ and made it all disappear.

People have been saying this for over a decade.

12 years later, still dominating the entire section without an end in sight.

 

[LecheDeMiPalo]

People have been saying this for over a decade.

12 years later, still dominating the entire section without an end in sight.

much like Bellevue lol…11 state titles (STATE Titles, not sectional) from 2001-2015 before it all went to shit. And they beat Bob Ladocoeur / Terry Eidson’s De La Salle. Not Alumbaugh’s.

 

[kiddman32]

I was at that DLS/Bellevue game... Pretty amazing, 39-20 shellacking while throwing ZERO passes (unlike in the movie)... Not even a drop-back and scramble... every play a designed run. I think DLS set a world record for tackling the wrong guy! Happened practically every play, sometimes twice in a play... Smear everyone but the dude racing to the endzone with the ball... Freshman QB was a total master of sleight-of-hand with all the fakes.

 

[pastyfastquick3]

I guess this thread sure didn't end up as intended, right @The Brooklyn Kid ?