Good heavens. What has happened to the SI football program? It has been a steady downward spiral over the last several seasons. Is it demographics? Is it tough entrance requirements? Is it an emphasis on girls' sports? Is lacrosse now the priority? Is this a calculated de-emphasis? Is it all of the above? One wonders. One frets. One puzzles.
Can I say it...."KINGS OF KEZAR"
But before I hand the mic to AD to Riordan before we I would like to thank: Tim Readon
Mike Gilleran
Joe Green
And the guys who put it together everyday: Jay'sen "Dungy" Morrison
Daniel "Not on my Defense" Curtian
Darius "You can't handle this" Bell
Kaleah " too easy" Bell, Ryan "Not off R line" Jones.
We Are One, We R Riordan
It must hurt Riordan is not the "KINGS OF KEZAR"...I spelled it right too, (Reardan)
Congrats SHC Irish. Game was close throughout until the closing minutes of the game. There's a reason both teams are the bottom tier of the league again this year as there were a host of penalties on both sides and it seemed both teams were giving it away. With the talent the Irish have this season, I would think league play was a disappointment as the Irish's only wins were against the SF Schools. Certainly not the team many of you were touting after Riordan's run in 2015. Other than Heard and Watkins, who do the Irish return next season? There's no JVs to speak of and your Frosh most likely will finish 0-WCALIt must hurt Riordan is not the "KINGS OF KEZAR"...I spelled it right too, (Reardan)
Congrats SHC Irish. Game was close throughout until the closing minutes of the game. There's a reason both teams are the bottom tier of the league again this year as there were a host of penalties on both sides and it seemed both teams were giving it away. With the talent the Irish have this season, I would think league play was a disappointment as the Irish's only wins were against the SF Schools. Certainly not the team many of you were touting after Riordan's run in 2015. Other than Heard and Watkins, who do the Irish return next season? There's no JVs to speak of and your Frosh most likely will finish 0-WCAL
Good luck in CCS - you should have a deep run in D3...
Enjoy.
Congrats SHC Irish. Game was close throughout until the closing minutes of the game. There's a reason both teams are the bottom tier of the league again this year as there were a host of penalties on both sides and it seemed both teams were giving it away. With the talent the Irish have this season, I would think league play was a disappointment as the Irish's only wins were against the SF Schools. Certainly not the team many of you were touting after Riordan's run in 2015. Other than Heard and Watkins, who do the Irish return next season? There's no JVs to speak of and your Frosh most likely will finish 0-WCAL
Good luck in CCS - you should have a deep run in D3...
Enjoy.
Beg to differ. CCS Open III will not be a picnic by any stretch of the imagination. SHC will have its hands full. Other than the WCAL's top trio, the league was definitely down this season.
Congrats SHC Irish. Game was close throughout until the closing minutes of the game. There's a reason both teams are the bottom tier of the league again this year as there were a host of penalties on both sides and it seemed both teams were giving it away. With the talent the Irish have this season, I would think league play was a disappointment as the Irish's only wins were against the SF Schools. Certainly not the team many of you were touting after Riordan's run in 2015. Other than Heard and Watkins, who do the Irish return next season? There's no JVs to speak of and your Frosh most likely will finish 0-WCAL
Good luck in CCS - you should have a deep run in D3...
Enjoy.
I think that hit on Benham after the whistle blew and no flag set off the coaches. As stated earlier, penalties were called on both sides, giving both teams a chance.
He walked off without assistance, so it didn't look too bad.any report on benham's injury?
SHC Riordan game was close for only a few minutes. Mistakes and some questionable play calls by SHC kept Riordan in game.(half back throw and kicking deep on the kickoff return). Never saw a reff so pissed off after a game. Older ref wanted a piece of Riordan coach. As for ref calls, thought favored RIordan all day. (Of course, I look through green colored glasses.)
But SHC boys hung in and pulled it out. Proud of my boy!
Maybe Jordan24, they have a few pieces, the line looks a decent beefy size for the future.. I wouldn't say league play was a disappointment other than Bellarmine for me, SHC came out flat on that game and they squandered the best chance to beat them in decades. I don't think anyone said they were going to beat VC, Serra, or St. Francis. Besides even Barry jokingly said this was the "trash can" squad remember? We didn't have more than 30 players to begin league play with, so yes they overachieved, no one was touting them to do anything. They still have to play Mitty and hopefully they can give them some scares. The IRISH were very exciting under Barry's tenure so far. Seeing the IRISH offense make big passing plays for a change was worth it. I don't recall an Irish QB other than Seamus Finnegan in 2009 maybe with an impressive arm. He won some WCAL games but he didn't beat SI, so go figure? Next year, If Monroe suits up, that would be a nice jolt for the team, he is electric...I hope young Daly and coach talks him into it..They looked like a good combo freshman year. The freshman team probably won't win any games this year, but the roster shows some decent size lineman for the future. Also, SFGATE had a nice write-up on this game, SHC had only 15 healthy players suited up for varsity so they had to bring up all the JV's players to help play this game. Again, they did the best they could with what they had.
I thought they had a shot at Bellarmine too. The best chance they had recently was in 2011. Just one lousy turnover and two missed long passes at the end prevented a shockwave through the league.
Also, I was under the impression that the JV's disbanded due to injury, not the varsity bringing them up because of varsity injuries.
That is my understanding, too. Didn't the JVs start out the season with 24 on its roster?Irish, I'd read exactly that in a previous post that due to injuries the JV team rather than field a team with under 20 players was canceling the rest of their schedule and moving remaining players up to varsity.
Day day pasina and ray ray pasina got moved up to varsity after the SI game both twin brothersThat is my understanding, too. Didn't the JVs start out the season with 24 on its roster?
Best SHC player name called out by the announcer yesterday: "Day-Day" (don't recall his last name)!
OK. Raymond and Salio Pasina.Day day pasina and ray ray pasina got moved up to varsity after the SI game both twin brothers
I am going to try to "Go High"when SHC team and on the field Refree "went low".
Post game activies of SHC and a Former Riordan Coach who had swung at SHC players then
YouTube Riordan vs Stanfel Cup 2005
Huh?If nothing better, I take great pride in being not the worst interesting.
I speak the truth, it is not like it is Fake News to say "Drive by Way" in reference SHC. It is not like one can't search on YouTube to see a former Riordan Coach swinging at SHC players after a Stanfel game. The encourage his players to go into stands to celebrate and not present the trophy.
But I could possibly tolerate that on school rivalries in nab taste.
But I won't excuse the Head Refree call Riordan a ghetto school during the game. What I can't be silence is a no call after player is injuried after a blown whistle. And then to actually threaten to whip a NFL players ass. In my opinion, the former NFL should have .... let's say put him on serious IR or CTS.
I stated like honorable Riordan poster congrats.
But Lee me leave you with my thoughts of your input. This was a A & B conversation, so you can C your way out of it
Tale of the Tape: Serra & St. Francis Weigh-In
Records: Serra 7-2, SF 7-2
CCS Ranking: Serra #1, SF #2
Power Rating: Serra 52.4, SF 45.7
Points Per Game Scored: Serra 41.1, SF 31.5
Points Allowed Per Game: Serra 17.7, SF 12.8
Scores in Games with common opponents:
Serra 35-7 over Valley Christian, VC 28-21 over SF
Serra 51-21 over SHC, SF 45-17 over SHC
Serra 45-0 over Riordan, SF 35-0 over Riordan
Serra 48-0 over Bells, SF 31-6 over Bells
Serra 64-21 over Mitty, SF 42-21 over Mitty
Serra 47-14 over S.I., SF 28-7 over S.I.
Points Scored against common opponents: Serra 290, SF 202
Points Allowed against common opponents: Serra 63, SF 79
Over/Under: Serra 5-point favorite
Serra vs St. Francis - Players to Watch and how they match up:
Quarterbacks:
Serra Luke Bottari - league leading QB in yards passing, TD's thrown and percentage of completions.
St. Francis Reed Vettel - #3 QB in WCAL, proficient leader, makes few mistakes, rated #2 overall behind Bottari.
Running Backs:
SF Darrel Page - league leading RB avg. 145 YPG with 11-TD's.
Serra Isaiah Kendrick - 2nd leading RB avg 108 YPG with 19-TD's.
Serra Tevesi Vakalahi & David Coker - 2 secondary RB's who avg 100 YPG between them with 6-TD's.
SF Lucas Andrighettto - 2nd RB used avg 36 YPG
* Both Serra & SF have used up to 4 additional RB's at times, so adequate back-up on both teams.
Wide Receivers:
Serra Patrick Nunn - league leading WR avg 65 YPG with 6 TD's.
Serra Chris Park - one of top 10 WR's in WCAL with 4 TD's.
Serra Shane Villaroman - holds Serra record for most passes caught in a season [2016] coming off injury.
SF Maurice Wilmer - big play WR avg's few catches, but eye-opening league leading 35 yards per catch avg.
SF Evan Williams - solid 2-way player catches passes and INT's as DB, has only aught 10 passes, but 6 went for TD's.
Serra Andres Atkins - another solid WR for Padres in the rotation with 3 TD's.
Offense Per Game:
Serra 211 yards passing and 225 yards rushing = 436 yards offense per game.
SF 42 yards passing and 326 yards rushing = 368 yards offense per game.
Overall:
Serra scores on average just over 1-TD more per game than SF
SF allows just under 1-TD less per game than Serra.
Conclusion: 2 very good teams well matched up against each other. Both have productive offenses, but go about it in different ways and both have stingy defenses. Serra has the more balanced offense and spreads the ball around to 7-8-9 players per game using 3-4 RB's and 4-5 WR's. SF is more a "ground & pound" run game with Darrel Page the main weapon of attack. Page 5'10-185 has been consistent and only one team was successful in containing him which was DLS.
Otherwise SF's RB Page has done serious damage against every other team SF has faced including Valley Christian.
On paper and from watching both teams both teams as their stats would indicate - that Serra is the more explosive on offense and SF's D may have a slight edge on Serra. What has been obvious is that Serra does possess some speed amongst more than one of their skill players. Against Valley Christian who also had good speed and a dominating run game Serra was able to contain the run and VC did not match up well against the speedy Padre receivers'.
This is a good match-up and should be a great game to watch.
I've got no "skin in the game", but I'm happy to see SHC move the JV squad up to Varsity. As it is/was, it looks like there were already a number of Jr.'s playing on JV. Starting the season with small squads presents its own challenges, but then throw in some unfortunate injuries and a team can find themselves in a situation that could result in the season ending right then and there. Nice to see SHC avoided that. And, best thing of all is knowing that all of the kids get to keep their season moving forward. With regard to my comment about A number of Jr.'s playing on JV>>That is my understanding, too. Didn't the JVs start out the season with 24 on its roster?
Best SHC player name called out by the announcer yesterday: "Day-Day" (don't recall his last name)!