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CIF needs to have separate public and private division

In most other states you will see that HS football divisions are separated into public divisions and private divisions. As you all know that is not the case in California. I believe CIF needs to separate into private and public divisions. 10 years ago it wasn't a big deal but now that private schools have gone the extra mile with recruiting and scholarshipping players creating "all star" teams public schools can't keep up. For instance in D1 the trinity leauge, with the exception of Lutheran pretty much blew through everyone, even C10 who I hold in high esteem got destroyed 48-14 by Mater Dei. In D4 Grace Bretheren did the same thing. In D12 Linfield Christian which is a tiny school beat large public school Artesia 70-32. With exception to D13 where large public schools are beating the tiniest of private schools there is a huge inequity here. Nothing against private schools but it's just not an equal playing field and IMO something needs to change..
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CaliforniaPreps/Slam Jam Underclassmen Showcase Sunday, Aug. 18 at Burroughs High

Slam Jam/californiapreps.com Underclassmen Showcase (10th and 9th graders)

Participant List and Team Breakdown with Game Times

Sunday, August 18 at Burroughs HS in Burbank

Jack Pollon 818-425-8737 jpollon23@gmail.com

EVENT COVERAGE AT WWW.CALIFORNIAPREPS.COM
SPECTATOR ADMISSION: $10 PER PERSON

TEAM 1 Agoura HD (10 am and 11 am) Coach Conley Oliver

Cole Beeman, Sophomore
Gavin Guenther, Sophomore
Milo Hudak, Sophomore
Marty Johnson, Freshman
Andy Johnson, Freshman
Zane Miller, Freshman
Iggy Spayne, Freshman
Logan Mann, Freshman

TEAM 2 G.Y.G.R. (GET YOUR GAME RIGHT) (9 am and 10 am) Coach Gary Garrett

Roster to be announced

TEAM 3 MOORPARK (9 am and 11 am) COACH RYAN MOORE

Oliver Barakat
Nick Parrott
Grant Brooks
Daniel Cronin
Nate Tiedge
Samson Hall

TEAM 4 RISE (12 pm and 1 pm) Coach Rich Kitagawa

14 Aidan Hoang 2022 Temple City
6 Dylan Phan 2022 Temple City
9 Joshua Kim 2022 Flintridge Prep
23 John Stetson 2022 Flintridge Prep
2 JJ Kim 2022 South Pasadena
xx Jacob Chin 2022 La Salle
1 Aidan Dalnay 2022 Temple City
xx Devon Domingo 2023 St. Francis
0 Nathan Park 2022 Flintridge Prep
xx Kainoa Jones 2023 South Pasadena

TEAM 5 Calif. Raptors (1 pm and 2 pm) Coach Toby Spino, General Manager Craig Hirasawa

#0 Jaden Hirasawa 2022 Crespi
#3 Donovan Santoro 2022 Crespi
#8 Caedmon Ceurvorst 2022 Notre Dame
#9 Gabriel Gangi-Saroukhanioff 2022 Crespi
#10 Josh Montiano 2022 Crespi
#12 Isaiah Matallana 2022 Granada Hiils
#13 Blake Yamada 2023 Rolling Hills Prep
#23 Karson Peffer 2022 Crespi
#27 Jonathan Platt 2022 Crespi
#30 Dahnte Russell 2022 Harvard-Westlake
#35 Mason Dorsey 2022 Crespi
#55 Steven Jamerson II 2021 Crespi (Skipped a grade-04 Birthday)

TEAM 6 Burroughs (12 pm and 2 pm) Coach Ellis
Roster to be announced

TEAM 7 Moorpark (3 pm and 4 pm) Coach Ryan Moore

Wayne Eastland
Joe Rodriguez
Riley Borg
Zach Schauer
Braeden Kyle
Russell Alvarez

TEAM 8 Pasadena (3 pm and 5 pm) Coach Rasic
Roster to be announced

TEAM 9 DNA Acad. (4 pm and 5 pm) Coach Elliott

Kory Blunt, Birmingham
Aidan Dixon, Birmingham
Tristan Alvarez, Birmingham
Devean Walker, Birmingham
Eduardo Rodriguez, El Camino Real
Pejan Slater, Santa Clarita Christian
Elijah Knox, Valencia
Caden Leff, Newbury Park
Andrew Angulo, Van Nuys
LaCorey Johnson, Heritage Chr.

TEAM 10 Birmingham (6 pm and 8 pm) Coach Halic

6 pm game

Kory Blunt (23)
Aidan Dixon (22)
Cameron Hatch (22)
Tristan Alvarez (23)
Franky Bloom (23)
Kaden DoQui (23)
Jalen Washington (23)
Tyson Jackson (23)
Stephen Welch (23)
Devean Walker (23)
Elijah Knotts (22)
Clab Reyes (22)

8 pm game

Aidan Moore (22)
Dante Holly (22)
Shamar Ray (22)
Elijah Muhammad (22)
J'Lynn Tucker (22)
Czar Cooper (23)
Bryan Colindres (23)
Daniel Washington (23)
Alex Delgado (23)
Tyler Isom (23)
Tyson Jackson (23)

Team 11 The Hills (6 pm and 7 pm) Coach Narciso

Blas Molina (St Genevieve HS)
Reid Narciso (Notre Dame HS)
Jalen Washington (Birmingham HS)
Aren Ekmekjan (Granada Hills HS)
Max Endler (Granada Hills HS)
Justin Rosenbaum (Granada Hills HS)
Ethan Sosa (Granada Hills HS)
Dilyn Martin (Granada Hills HS)
Joseph Greene (Granada Hills HS)
Noah Ramirez (Granada Hills HS)
Colin Yarros (Granada Hills HS)
Luke Reyes (Granada Hills HS)

TEAM 12 GameTymers (7 pm and 8 pm) Coach Jamerson

Justin Hodge
Larry Balagula
Wellington Bristow
Aiden Kwon
Aaron Abrams
Matthew Skurskiy
Shani Khan
Brenden Yamauchi
William Campbell
Anant Shah
Cole Myers

D.J. Patton
Doron Javaherian
Jonathan Sarceno
Alex Bothast
Kenny Appleby
Dylan Wade
jake Maag
Jonathan Gonzalez
Ryan Tjenalooi
Aras Vakilli
Garrett Pasternak

The CIF-SS transfer rules committee met and no new changes will be made

Excerpt from CIF message by Commissioner Rob Wigod:

"The Transfer Rules Committee held their culminating meeting yesterday. The purpose of this meeting was to complete the task we started a year ago which was to examine our current transfer rules, initiate discussion and gather feedback from our member schools on what we have in place, and based on the information obtained from our constituents, explore potential changes to our transfer rules moving forward.

This committee, made up of representatives from 9 geographic areas of our section, did an excellent job of working on this issue from start to finish... Now that their work is done, I would like to take this opportunity to inform you of their conclusions.

Transfer Rules Committee Chairman Rich Shearer stated, “After a year-long study..., the general consensus...is we will not be recommending any proposals this school year to change the current state-wide transfer rules that are in place.

We believe that the implementation of the Valid Change of Residence Checklist on January 1 was a significant step in addressing a major concern expressed by member schools. Also, it was stated by the majority of our group that the SOP is functioning appropriately, especially after the SOP was standardized, in terms of the same Sit-Out Period for all sports, the narrowing of categories that can be considered for Hardship Waiver Applications and changes made to the International Student Bylaw in recent years have all made a difference in helping manage the transfer situation.

Finally, transfer numbers were significantly down last year in the Southern Section, and state-wide, so we will continue to monitor that situation in the time ahead as we will meet again in January, 2020, to review transfer numbers from the first few months of this school year..."
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Who goes back to the days of the Old Dick Butkus site?

Yes, the Dick Butkus site. That's where I started posting years ago. 20 years ago or so. There has been quite a few posters that were long and short timers. I believe these sites have lost a lot of their posters because of a few reasons, obnoxious posters or trolls, a lack of active moderators, the arrival of other social media and these sites are always screwing with what worked already.

People lose track and stop posting. Some have passed away. We used to have some great prep football conversations here and there's very few posters now compared to what we had. Too bad. It was fun while it lasted. That's why I rarely post anymore plus there's nothing much to write about my beloved Fohi. I was following Kaiser and San G in the playoffs but hardly anyone was commenting on them aside from BigMitch.

The CIF-SS transfer rules committee met and no new changes will be made

Excerpt from CIF message by Commissioner Rob Wigod:

"The Transfer Rules Committee held their culminating meeting yesterday. The purpose of this meeting was to complete the task we started a year ago which was to examine our current transfer rules, initiate discussion and gather feedback from our member schools on what we have in place, and based on the information obtained from our constituents, explore potential changes to our transfer rules moving forward.

This committee, made up of representatives from 9 geographic areas of our section, did an excellent job of working on this issue from start to finish... Now that their work is done, I would like to take this opportunity to inform you of their conclusions.

Transfer Rules Committee Chairman Rich Shearer stated, “After a year-long study..., the general consensus...is we will not be recommending any proposals this school year to change the current state-wide transfer rules that are in place.

We believe that the implementation of the Valid Change of Residence Checklist on January 1 was a significant step in addressing a major concern expressed by member schools. Also, it was stated by the majority of our group that the SOP is functioning appropriately, especially after the SOP was standardized, in terms of the same Sit-Out Period for all sports, the narrowing of categories that can be considered for Hardship Waiver Applications and changes made to the International Student Bylaw in recent years have all made a difference in helping manage the transfer situation.

Finally, transfer numbers were significantly down last year in the Southern Section, and state-wide, so we will continue to monitor that situation in the time ahead as we will meet again in January, 2020, to review transfer numbers from the first few months of this school year..."

GSP (Post Grad) has one spot opened up........

Golden State Prep (GSP) has recently had an overseas player injury himself (Achilles) and will be out for the season. Therefore, we will be opening up one spot on the roster (Prefer locally in NorCal) for a player that would like to join.

GSP Season is 6 months (September to March) and includes trips to Orlando, Boston, Canada, Ft. Lauderdale, Arizona, Las Vegas, etc. We are playing the top Post Grad teams in the USA at the top events. The GSP roster has a plethora of players ranging from the D1 level, D2 and NAIA as well. GSP will have two teams.

For more information, email goldenstateprepbball@gmail.com. The first day of practice is 2.5 weeks away.

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Recruiting Commits/Preseason Ranking This Week

On Sunday, the nation’s top ranked by player Rivals.com, St. John Bosco quarterback DJ Uiagalelei committed to Clemson.

On Thursday, Narbonne defensive back Brandon Jones committed to Stanford.

Also on Thursday, it was announced that Cajon 6’8 wide out Darren Jones is headed to Snow JC in Ephraim Utah. He was committed but did not sign with Utah in February.

Also this week USA Today published their first set of preseason national rankings for this season. North Shore of Houston is first, St. John Bosco is second, Mater Dei is fourth, Narbonne is tenth. Centennial is on their bubble of five teams that just missed the rankings with no team from Northern California included in either.

Bay Area Competition Clinic-Saturday Sept. 7 at Nor Cal Courts

BAY AREA COMPETITION CLINIC

The 16th annual Bay Area Competition clinic will be held Saturday September 7, 2019 at Nor Cal Courts in Martinez from 12 noon to 9 pm. The event is open to individual players and teams in all high school grades (classes of 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023).

An individual skill work drill session will be held to start the event. Each team will play three games after the drill session. A report on the event will be done by the Hoop Review scouting service that will be sent to college coaches and various internet sites.

Cost is $300 per team or $100 per individual. For more information/application contact Gerry Freitas at 408-998-1327 or via email: gerryfreitas@hotmail.com.

PROLIFIC ACADEMY GIRLS ONLY CAMP: AUGUST 5-9th



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The academy offers 4 different programs: (a) Full Overnight Boarding, (b) Full Day, (c) Commuter, and (d) Partial Day Commuter. You can sign up for 1-3 workouts per day.

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10:30am-12pm Skill Workout #1: Total Skill Work
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6pm-7pm Dinner
7:00-8:15pm Skill Workout #2: Shooting Focus/
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11pm Lights out

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Another SoCali gets a start at QB in the CFL

Nick Arbuckle, who was the senior QB for the St. Bonaventure Seraphs in 2011, got the start last week, for the Calgary Stampeders, after CFL star QB Bo Levi Mitchell went down with an injury the prior week. Arbuckle rose to the occasion, going 19 of 22 for 262 yards and 2 TD's and no interceptions in a 37-10 victory over QB Cody Fajardo and the Saskatchewan Roughriders.
After graduating from St. Bonny, Arbuckle spent 2 years at Pierce College. He passed for nearly 7,000 yards and 73 touchdowns in two seasons at Pierce College in Woodland Hills, Calif. … Led the Pacific Conference (California Community College Athletic Association) with 259.3 yards per game in 2013 as he threw for 2,852 yards and 26 touchdowns while completing nearly 60 percent of his passes … That followed season totals of 3,774 yards and 40 touchdowns in 2012.
AT GEORGIA STATE: Two-time all-conference quarterback and Sun Belt Conference Student-Athlete of the Year who owns nearly every Georgia State record for passing and total offense in a game, season and career as well as several Sun Belt marks ... Junior college transfer who enrolled at Georgia State in January 2014 and won the starting job in spring practice.

When the Top Private Schools Match Up

Looking forward to the DLS/MD game on Saturday. As a northern california person, I will, of course, root for DLS. Inteersting that we have two top private schools. One, DLS, goes with what they have as freshmen to build their team. The other, MD. relies also on mass transfers.

I guess coach Rollison still smarts from the 4 years in a row smackdown that DLS have them years ago. Harder to admire MD program because of all the transfers.

Who are some of the best players your team has ever played?

For my lil team in Georgia! We've played Chuma Edoga at USC, Robert Nkemdiche of Old Mississippi, William Andrews for Auburn, Charlie Ward of Florida State, Dexter Carter, Deon Branch, Alexander Wright, the whole defensive backfield for national Champion FSU, who all played at Lowndes High in Valdosta, Ga.! We played Wayne Gallman, starting RB for national champion Clemson, as well as their starting Center, Mitch Hyatt from North Gwinnett, Ga.! We also played against Super Bowl Champion Malcolm Mitchell from Valdosta, Ga., Tyreek Hill from Coffee High in Douglas, Georgia, and Alvin Kamara of Norcross, Ga.! In the 2015 GHSA State Championship game, we played against a Roswell defense, that had two defenders who started for Alabama, Xavier McKinney, and Tre Lamar, a starter for Clemson, who is now with Detroit!

I watched Friday night football tonight

Ok, so it was the opening week of the Canadian Football League and I happened to catch a game between the Edmonton Eskimos and the Montreal Allouettes. The Eskimos were led by a talented qb named Trevor Harris who set an NCAA D-II record by throwing for 633 yards passing in a D-II playoff game. He threw for 447 yards on the wide-open Canadian field. In the backfield with him was a familiar name, running back CJ Gable of USC and high school all-american out of Sylmar. Gable ran for over 100 yards and also caught a TD pass that was well thrown but required his focus to make a good catch. The opposing Allouettes were struggling with their starting QB, but he go injured, so into the game came another familiar Southern California name, Vernon Adams, Jr.. Adams played at Alemany High. Eatern Washington and Oregon. Adams was able to rally his team in the fourth quarter to tie the score, but ultimately threw two bad balls, with time running down, which culminated in an interception by a guy named Anthony Orange, who apparently use to be called A.J. Jefferson and played for Bakersfield "West" High and Fresno State.
Almost forgot to mention that Cody Fajardo played QB last night in the Thursday night opener for the CFL, for the Saskatchewan Roughriders. He played at Servite and U of Nevada-Reno. Nothing spectacular and I think he took a hit again while running the ball. Saskatchewan also had a WR named Shaq Evans who played at Inglewood High and Notre Dame
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