Fanview Lite: February 17, 2010

"All want not something to do, but something to be."

Good Morning!

T-Minus-205 Days until “The Mid Valley Classic”

Of course because I took it…I love the pic.

It is also why I love football. “All want not something to do, but something to be.” Thoreau said that (I welcome the correction). This pic shows a bunch of young men being part of something. The dirt, the grime, the sweat are the trophies of the effort.

In all the years its been since I played basketball its never been game night I missed, but the practices. I miss the practices even as brutal as they were at times. With the passing of years it is the practicing I long for. Being with the team. Sucking in deep breaths after a set of lines. The slow exit of the locker room in the later afternoon with teammates. Being a part of something.

The other charm of prep and even collegiate sports is its all fleeting.

I have proof all is fleeting…Remember way back when the New Orleans Saints won the Super Bowl? They talked about it for a whole week, but now its the Olympics and the NFL Draft.

Still in youth is optimism. After a fast start and slow finish Brian Zavala and the Wildcats at Wilson are believing again.

“We have a good group coming back for us. WR/DB J.R. Nelson, WR/DB Mike Soto, ILB Gustavo Garcia, RB Moses Vega, LB Aaron Gomez, OL/DL Joseph Prohoff, OL/DE Joseph Camacho, OL/DL Goerge Lemus are just a few to get us going.”

Last Add Wilson: Remember the Wildcats, now part of the Valle Vista, finished 3-7 on the field but were forced to forfeit wins over Blair and Glenn. Overlook them and Vega at your own peril in 2010.

Clarification: Yesterday Monrovia assistant Mike Minter told me they upgraded the schedule for 2010. I’d say so. On the docket for M-Town this fall are Glendora, Arcadia, San Dimas, South Hills, and Paramount.

Paramount?

If I would have thought of it last night, I would have mentioned to Monrovia AD Randy Bell, when he dropped in to surprise Josh Lowden, that all out of area games (like Paramount) have to be cleared by the Mid Valley staff.

After all, it is all about us.

“Coach (Maddox) believes if you are going to be a great program, you have to play great teams,” said Lowden when asked about the schedule upgrade.

Perhaps we say this too much, perhaps to his detriment, but Mid Valley Sports thinks the world of Lowden. He was fantastic last night.

However, seeing him on the field and hanging with him in person is a paradox. He’s a beast on the gridiron and Mr. Rogers off it. I couldn’t even get Bell to explain it to me.

Like the Hall & Oats song decades ago that said; “The beauty’s there but the beast is in the heart.”

Someone has to send us a ‘Josh Lowden Got Angry’ story.

Miss Hart can you help us?

Burroughs (featured in the above pic) HC Keith Knoop after giving me his non-league invasion of the Foothill League sent me a list of players ready to step up this coming season:

Nick Brown – Def End

Raul Martinez – Oline

Steven Escoboza – Oline

Matt Volland – DB/WR

Zack Meijer – LB/WR

Tyler and Lucas Yanez  Wr – QB

If you have a web show, or considering a web show, an athlete you need to have on post haste is Humboldt State bound Kohl Adams-Hurd out of Burroughs. He was terrific last night and a lot of fun. Catch the interview on the site.

A physical receiver for the Indians in 2009, he’ll be playing free safety in northern California for the next few years. Although, it is likely he’ll redshirt in 2010.

If you watched the show last night then you saw our hotly contested round table. The Cleveland Browns, with the drafting of Schurr’s Carlos Arredondo and Cal’s Terris Jones in the first two rounds, were declared the winners of the first Mid Valley Draft.

Even more painful for me to admit is that Blue State served as general manager for the Browns last Tuesday night.

Stay thirsty my friends…

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