The TEN
(“The TEN” is not a top ten but ten items worth being included in “The TEN”)
1. LeBron James scored 39 points to lead Cleveland to a 125-103 win over Toronto and a 2-0 lead in the Eastern Conference semi finals.
2. Former Portland Trailblazers star Brandon Roy was shot in the leg outside his grandmother’s house near Los Angeles. Roy, who was an innocent bystander, was shielding children in the area in what appeared to be a gang-related shooting.
3. Kobe Bryant has been helping Boston Celtics guard Isaiah Thomas break down playoff game film. Bryant reached out to Thomas after Thomas’ sister was killed in an automobile accident last month.
4. Retired Dallas Cowboys quarterback Tony Romo will attempt to qualify for the U.S Open.
5. Alabama extends HC Nick Saban’s contract through the 2024 season. Saban will reportedly make $65 million over the next eight years.
6. El Monte’s Julian Valera is batting .469 with 17 RBI in 14 games.
7. Running back Justin Forsett announces his retirement after nine seasons. Forsett played with six teams but his best year was 2014 with the Baltimore Ravens when he rushed for 1266 yards.
8. Arcadia pitcher Jacob Kampen is 5-2 with an ERA of 1.17 with 52 strikeouts in 47 innings pitched.
9. The SGV North-South All-Star game is Saturday night May 13 at 7:00 p.m. at Covina District Field.
10. “It’s been an amazing ride and I’m grateful for every moment the game of football has brought me.” – Justin Forsett.
Then again, the times in other states are also evolving 24 hours a day 365 days a year football, as some are driving toward a scholarship, so in order to stay competitive I guess CIF is stuck between the times and coaches family time.
I agree with “REALLY” CIF doesnt want to do their job so they say heck with it let them al do what they want.
If that is the case why have CIF?
Ron Saldana is not a newbie to the sport of basketball by any means. SEM fans can believe me when I say that their program is in excellent hands.
Whats it all about?
Do the School Districts want to save money so they can pay the administration more money? Who knows? Hacienda Heights rarely gives tenure to any coaches who get a job on campus teaching. They find a new walk on. So what should they do? 1. You can drop your program if the cost outweighs the revenue based on the value of the sport to education; not just the sport itself. (not going to happen) If it’s not going to help your students you don’t need it. Today kids don’t even have to purchase ASB cards, which helps pay for the support of all security, officials, grounds crew if applicable, etc., and they are not allowed to required them to buy them, by state law. 2. CIF could go back to no-coached football practices outside of school from when your season starts August 1st until your last game. This gives coaches their lives back for 7-8 months. Less burn out and they they get family time. Thats the way it was. But, because of all the cheating and CIF not being the police the coaches, they, CIF let it turn into what is is today; 11 months of football only. In 1972 Monrovia had to forfeit their varsity games because they were caught having coached summer practices.
The weight room can happen during school time, during PE class the last period of the day, for 3 days a week and 2 days of sport fundamentals. Then the athletes can play other sports and have a blast. Remember about 95%+ of the players will never play a college sport.
How many coaches and trainers do you need? I counted 22+ for Corona Centennial, and they lost.Some schools are lucky to have 22 players. LOL.
Those of us that have coached in the past or present have seen the game change as recently as 10 years ago. Good article Aram.
Riiiiight. Because teaching is the quick way to make a buck. Maggiore really pulled the long con.
I will tell you what I think is also part of the problem, and maybe the solution, The coaches want to compete, they want to win , they want to be leaders and role models,
They coach and try, but alignment with Stup%^& CIF makes them losers in 1st round of playoffs, its great in pro sports to put #1 VS 16 or worse because it will ensure the lower seeded teams pay more money to get better players and also the have profit sharing, and they have a draft to make lousy teams better. this is not the case in High School you get a power house in 1st round and your out, its demoralizing to many coaches loosing every year, he can’t compete with the big schools, the private schools, the cheating high schools (recruiting illegally ) .
Then you have Admin a moron assistant with control issues whose shoe size is 6 and little man syndrome takes over . HS athletic assistants should have played sports not PE,
The pay is small 3,000 a year is like 3 cents on the hour
then you have 60 hours of dedication almost year round because CIF allows practices 7 on 7 year round, for no other reason to help cheaters schools, thus the small schools have to be there to try , I said try to be competitive but can’t. again demoralizing.
CIF needs to go after cheating schools or kids who bounce for athletic reasons in order to make the playing filed a little better, small schools with 1 or 2 great athlete get ripped apart when big schools see him on a 7 on 7 and ask him to join them selling the world to him. small school again looses any opportunity to win a couple more games in season. CIF COULD HELP , CIF SHOULD HELP, BUT CIF WON’T DO DELETED
San Gabriel Valley Tribune:
By: Aram Tolegian (Aram.Tolegian@sgvn.com)
La Mirada coach Mike Moschetti is part of the trend of high school football coaches leaving coaching, but remaining at their school’s as teachers. (Photo by Scott Varley, Daily Breeze)
The list of names is all-star caliber and seemingly grows by the day. But there’s nothing good about it.
Mike Maggiore, Mike Moschetti, Matt Koffler, Dale Ziola, Joel Sanchez, Marc Paramo, Albert Sanchez, I could go on and on. Head coaches by trade, but men who either will be assistants or not coaching at all next season.
Yes, there’s an inventory glut of top-notch head coaches who show up to work every day at a local high school campus near you, but aren’t actually the head coach of anything anymore. They teach. Most of them physical education, but some history or math or something else.
Again, this is not a good thing.
This is where we’re at in high school athletics in 2017. For a multitude of reasons, be it lack of administration support, athlete parent nuisance, poor pay or burnout, coaches are keeping their day jobs, but hanging up their whistles.
It makes fans (and sportswriters) want to shout “Hey coach, nobody needs you as a fizz-ed teacher.”
But it also stokes a curiosity about what’s gone so wrong in the high school coaching profession that some of our best local leaders are now on the freeway by 4 p.m., heading home instead of on the field building our youth into men.
Either way, this is not a good thing.
There are no winners in this struggle. Coaches who don’t coach but take up a full-time teaching position hamstring their employer’s efforts to find another coach who actually wants to coach. Administrations who look at sports as an afterthought and have coaches on one-year contracts are shooting their schools in the foot, but predictably don’t seem to care.
What you have in the end is frustration on both sides because of a domino effect that is starting to prove damaging for both sides. El Monte currently has three former varsity football head coaches on campus holding staff positions, but its football program is coach-less.
“It’s the worst situation,” said a local athletic director, who did not want to be identified “The inability to be able to hire somebody in that spot is a killer when you have a guy on staff that could coach there, but he’s just choosing not to. What it forces you to do is take walk-ons.”
Ahh yes, the walk-on head coach. When was the last time you saw that work in football? There are outliers, but mostly it’s a losing proposition. Being a varsity football head coach these days requires around-the-clock attention and availability.
Technically, the coaches don’t owe it to their employer to remain coaches. A tenured teacher who held a coaching position can tell the school to kick rocks as far as the side-gig is concerned and there’s nothing the school can do about it.
Back in the day, it used to be that almost every fizz-ed teacher held at least one coaching position. Even athletic directors were expected to coach a sport in addition to their duties. There has been a disconnect in recent years, however.
In the case of someone such as Maggiore, he put more into West Covina than he’ll ever get out. You can say that about a lot of other coaches, too. And that says nothing of all the family or personal time that’s lost in the process.
You can’t blame coaches for feeling squeezed. They either keep up with the growing demands of the job or risk falling behind in the win-loss column. Yet the money stays the same and not enough administrators seem to understand this.
So what’s the solution? Coaches and athletic directors said there isn’t one. Not one! They’re all lucky I’m here. At no point has the answer been so obvious. Varsity football head coach needs to become a full-time job of its own.
No more teaching job by day and then coaching at night. No more leaving one but keeping the other. Just one straight-up position. The coach wants to leave, he leaves everything. That’s it. That’s the only answer. There isn’t going to be a happy medium the way things are or the way they’re going.
It would require some work for the state. It may even require some creativity in an industry that’s badly lacking it. But in the end, it would save a lot of time and headaches and the flagship sport for any school and its community would reap the award.
If superintendents can make a quarter-million dollars or more a year, believe me, there’s money somewhere to pay for a full-time football head coach at every public school. And if football isn’t your school’s thing, then pick the sport that is and give him or her the coaching-only gig.
Now that would be a good thing.
The new South El Monte Basketball coach is guy called Ron Saldana a former Schurr assistant. Not clear if he was a JV coach or a Varsity assistant. A source tells me he was involved in the AAU circuit for a few years. The same source tells me, he is very good friends with the assistant principal at South El Monte Mrs. De La Rosa. Hard to say if it’s a good hire or not but it’s gotta be better than hiring the baseball coach to run the basketball program only to have him quit midway of the season. if anyone knows Coach Saldana please enlighten us.
Looks like a lot of these coaches are really just looking for a short cut to a teaching gig. Once they get in the
teachers union they quit coaching.
Is there any news on semhs new basketball coach? I hear a new hire just happened.
@?, How’s the cave live?
#4: In what? Beach Volleyball, Tennis, Ping Pong, Chess……..
From T. Peterson: Dodge Ball.