Joe T.
Kick it!
This is going to sound terrible…and I probably deserve criticism for it…but let the kids transfer from school to school.
I know, I know, the students are there for education not sports, but quite often it is sports that motivates you to go get that education.
When dinosaurs roamed the earth and I was in high school, I was a terrible student… during the school year, but when summer came I was Mr. Cal Tech.
How come? Because I knew if I screwed up I couldn’t play ball in the fall.
There are things that are learned from a good coach, that can never be learned in the classroom. A good athletic program, appropriately invested in, can/will/does make a difference in a lot of lives.
(Tangent: After hearing what I’ve heard this week; love your coaches, because 90% of them do amazing work.)
Don’t like that idea?
Okay lets get really radical, drop all high school sports. If the communities want football or badminton, then let the communities run football or badminton.
It was nice to see former Laker, Pasadena product, Michael Cooper channeling his Doctor Harry Edwards on the post-game show Sunday.
Everyone seems to be really excited about the Kings, but I’ve seen these playoff performances before. They occur every eight to ten years…but what usually happens after all the good will and energy is they fall flat the following season. I like playoff hockey, but I’m not buying.
I’ve got a face full of scars wishing and hoping for the Kings…but in the end I may look better than Los Angeles Angels fans who are wishing/hoping Albert Pujoles can turn back the clock.
Temple City running a double-wing in 2012?
If it was a normal world…where high schools could go after the coaches that make sense for their programs instead of scrambling to fill voids…who would be Arcadia’s pick to replace the recently resigned Jon Dimalante?
Note: This is just speculation…but would they consider a Mike McFarland?
Someone asked me where my “Oh, I’ve always been a Kentucky fan” declaration was after the Wildcats won the NCAA tourney a few weeks ago…Sorry, there are some things I can do and some things I can’t.
I can’t sit through a Bill Maher monologue. I can’t sit through “The Princess Diaries” without heaving. I can’t figure out a way to get Peterson to pick up the check at lunch.
…And I most certainly cannot and would never, ever, not even with a gun to my back, root, cheer, or bandwagon for the Kentucky Wildcats…
Oh, but I’ve always been a Jack Givens fan.
I’m big on Ezra Broadus.
Have you seen the numbers on the South El Monte girls softball team? In particular look up Diaz and Nguyen.
Sad and sobering was the passing of former Florida basketball standout Dwayne Schintzius from complications dealing with leukemia. Schintzius was only 43 and I remember him being touted as the next Bill Walton.
The one thing the pending playoff shift does for local football is it allows locals to line up firmly behind one school. If they don’t already, folks are really going to start to love Monrovia around here.
Sierra Canyon, which will most likely enter the Mid-Valley Division, is a good solid Christian school and a great football team…but shortly they will be viewed as the evil empire. This is inevitable.
Do the Lakers need Kobe?
The Dude abides…
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Psalms 122:1
Contact Joe at joe@midvalleysports.com
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Gentlemen, when does the recruiting begin? What happens when San Marino a town turning into China and it begins its club team and the athletes come from Altadena, Pasadena, South LA, El Sereno of LA. Are we drafting for NFL? Look,Will they come out and support those kids? Who knows? Maybe the Nielson Ratings Services? Football, Baseball, and Basketball are the major sports in this country. All the others are really secondary. The value to the public is unknown, but assure you without sports for the poorer population, the crime rate would go up. Many time that the only reason some kids want to go to school. The life values all kids LEARN from team sports like football may never happen to most of these kids. Is this part of our public educations responsibility? I believe it is. However, I am OK with doing away with all sports. Except for those who can afford it or who are good enough to get someone to pay their way. The only ones who have the answers to what will happen is, God and Sarha Palin. I know that my Remington and Colt 45 stock will only go up!
Side note from this weekend’s Toyota Grand Prix of Long Beach:
In what has become something of an odd, karmic twist, for the fourth consecutive time stretching back to 2005, The Mid’s intrepid Big Antoine found himself sitting next to the wife of reigning champion Dario Franchitti, actress and Wildcat fan Ashley Judd, and as always happens, talked briefly about college basketball. This year’s conversation went as follows:
Big Antoine: As much as it pains me as a Bruin, congratulations on National Championship #8
Ashley Judd: Thanks, Tony, it’s appreciated
Big Antoine: yeah, and sorry about losing Shabazz Muhammed to us, (chuckle)
Judd: (laughter )Yeah, you did good there
Seems like the haves already have everything already. Mt.View, BP, Keppel, Alhambra all have walk ons already. and walkons no matter how much effort they put in are not the same
If the shift were to go towards a club thought, kids from area schools would not be able to compete with kids from more affluent areas. Once money becomes the factor that determines who and where the “haves” will dominate the games.
Joes right you dont NEED high school sports. The job of the a public school is to teach. Its obvious sports is not viewed as an academic course. So why are we paying for it? Go club or put treat it like an equal. Make the other sports go club and let football keep all of its own money. only dont say the schools have to provide sports and then do them dirty. Half this probelm would go away if there was F###ing Title 9.
How much do you think a kid would have to pay to play club football??? What type of coaching would you get? With fewer teams how much travel would incur? Who would you cheer for? La Verne Lutheran basketball is basically a club team and hardly anyone from the city of La Verne supporting that team. Yeah do away with all High School sports. And while were saving cash lets do away with the army and police, we can save a ton.
For many this is their calling in life, when it it is no longer a “joy” STAY HOME COACH start recycling. 90% do amazing work I agree but that still leaves 10% with the “wrong motives”-still at the expence of KIDS… The 10% are looking for the BIG game, BIG team and the chance to “sing one more song”. It not about you 10% ! Go 90%!
Also known as RAH-RAH by grandma and his close family. Like to see him at a better school…
I agree! Blow it all up! Economics have changed the system! This is now and we expect programs to run like they did in nineties! EVerything needs to be re-thought!