Saile Ramirez
By Saile Ramirez
“Pain Heals, Chicks Dig Scars, Glory Lasts Forever”
It’s been about a month since “THE” season ended. Yes, “THE” season. Football season of course is what I am speaking of, more importantly the prep football season.
Students are on winter break and most of them are enjoying the break. But for a select few questions are beginning to brew.
Senior Nick Bueno of Monrovia, who had 1828 yards passing and 23 touchdowns to just eight interceptions, is possibly pondering what’s next for his athletic future and more importantly educational future. But the real question is not what Bueno will do without Monrovia, but what will Monrovia do without Bueno? M-Town lists sophomore George Frazier on maxpreps.com at quarterback returning. I’m sure the coaching staff will get Frazier into the flow of things.
So many schools looking for successors in the quarterback department, unlike Arroyo high school who has junior Steven Rivera returning at the helm hoping to improve on a stellar Junior season performance totaling nearly 2,000 yards with 21 touchdowns. As well as Covina’s Billy Livingston who had over 2800 yards and 25 touchdowns this year.
Reading through all the Facebook updates this weekend I came across a a interesting one by senior quarterback Brandon Roach from Walnut High which read “I can’t believe in six months I won’t be attending WHS anymore.”
San Gabriel High may be looking to implement some of that Steve Spurrier two quarterback system. Well that’s what Steve would do. It will be interesting to see if Andy Guerrero will come out of the offseason as the starter or will Eric Alvarez show some of the spark he did last summer. Only time will tell.
George Johnson led his team to a Southeast Division Championship with clean, effective, “play within your system” type plays. He is the Trent Dilfer style quarterback who manages the game perfectly and answers the call when needed to keep a drive alive.
Arcadia’s Myles Carr had the best completion percentage among all Southeast quarterbacks, according to Maxpreps. He completed 66% of his passes and had 26 touchdowns to just four interceptions. Now that’s pretty impressive.
“Complete Quarterback” – an interesting book that has captured my eye as of late states, what all quarterbacks must be thinking right now during the offseason as they prepare to lead their team, “is this decision mine to make?” “will my decision be accepted or rejected?” “Am I asking others to do something I myself would not do?”
Life moves pretty fast. If you don’t stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.
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