Arcadia 2018 SGV Shootout Champs
By Tim Peterson
(El Monte) – Arcadia beat Diamond Ranch 15-9 in the Final to capture the SGV Shootout Saturday at Arroyo.
Arcadia HC Andrew Policky
Arcadia beat Northview and Diamond Ranch knocked off Los Altos in the semi finals to advance to the championship game. Los Altos took third place based on overall points. Here’s a few shots:
@ realdemocrat: Yeah, and yeah.
CIF bears great responsibility for all of this because it made critical changes in its rules and also seems to have a largely hands-off approach toward enforcing the current ones.
The rules changes I’m referring to are the 30-day transfer rule, the repeal of the association rule (which limited team activities to a specific period of the year), and the elimination of the ban on athletically-motivated transfers.
Everything that’s happening now could have been easily foreseen, and I believe it was mostly avoidable.
@ old grandpa: Some disagreements and controversies might never be resolved, but at least the games ought to be fun. I totally agree with you about taking life one day at a time and enjoying it as much as possible.
Why pathetic? Charter Oak gets transfers all the time that why there in the mix every year so LA does it and its a crime…..makes no sense!
I almost can’t wait until football starts so that the games can be played and all of the disagreements and controversies on this blog can be resolved on the field . Until then, I will try and enjoy each day as it comes.
@ unbelievable just because a kid is looking to transfer to private school doesn’t make him automatically eligible.
Just ask the kids who left Cathedral for BA. Once they found out they would have to sit out half their senior year
they landed in Arcadia with full eligibility.
Humm…
If a kid wants to transfer and play for another school why would anyone block it? I will praise a kid if he chooses to ball out in his home school, to there’s nothing like it. But, these kids should not be obligated to invisible contracts because of where their parents chose to live. Maybe, if you had a open system it would force schools to invest in the football program which will attract better kids. Teams like Keppel don’t invest or prioritize football so any talent around that area leave to other schools.
People chastise kids for leaving school, how about you guys complaining about transfers direct your criticism to school board members superintendents principals even local politicians to force them to improve football programs in your area so your kids or your neighbors kids won’t have to leave.
@laparent if you don’t like what you see then leave
Looks like people are making a real mess out of high school football……..sad
Maybe another team in blue… haha good insight tho!
There is no comparison to private schools because private schools have no boundaries. As long as you can pay tuition your fine
Congrats to Coach Spat we miss him!! Its unfortunate that last years seniors parents made him leave.
The QB that LA is getting comes from Long Beach
You are just a over work parent that son is probably not good and has poor work ethics so that why he no playing so you just want come on here and complain like a little kids so just grow up and man up address the issue in person
Old Spice…El Rancho wasn’t at the Arroyo Passing Tournament! Just tossed your thoughts out the window!
I thought that QB is already at Schurr?
@210 they don’t want to do any research. They see one new face, who may not even be new, and it becomes the entire program. The great majority of the Arcadia FB team has been there for 4 years. Anyone minutely associated with the program knows this. I wish these commenters were as concerned about St Francis, Amat and even La Salle occasionally poaching Arcadia kids. Apparently this practice is ok, but Arcadia shouldn’t have anyone on their team who start there in Kindergarten? Such hypocrites. Ask the few kids who left Arcadia to go to Muir why they keep calling to come back? If anything Arcadia is doing the opposite of recruiting.
@annoymous. I think you meant anonymous, but don’t want to assume. Arcadia sold their sole to who exactly? You may want to do some research they just graduated every single senior. Name me another program this publication covers that can say they graduate 900 kids and is probably the hardest school in the area? Sounds like they are doing something right and the broader community is buying in.
Tired of hearing about transfers and CIF. This stuff is been going on for years! Stop blaming Coaches and CIF start with the school officials and district personnel. Maybe the school or the district needs to step their game up and stop all this madness! Here is another one maybe you parents should step your game up and I’m talking about at your school if you don’t like that little Jermaine is no longer starting or you are getting constant transfers create a committee at your school and go out and make sure every student athlete at your school is following CIF rules! Take pictures,use video, check addresses during late hours and early mornings as well as weekends. Then you would have to do the unthinkable you would have to turn your own school in. Schools say Integrity,Honor and Excellence but look the other way when it comes to winning. Mainly talking about using fake addresses for their athletes to become immediately eligible.
Look who’s on the coaching staff for Workman!
Yes the QB is suppose to be there this week. Its demoralizing to say the least. Some of the blame is on our parents too along with our Admin. Our parents at times can be the worst in the SGV and our admin is too busy to check the validity of the new transfers. Its not the boys fault they are just following their parents lead. After talking to some of the boys yesterday you can already hear it in their tone that they know they will not get any playing time this season and it SUCKS big time.
Couple things to take away from the tournament.
Arcadia has athletes! It’s a huge difference from Arcadia and everyone else who was at that tournament. Even with all the transfers at Schurr or Los Altos they still looked miles away from Arcadia. But when pads come on if it’s between Policky or Singiser, I’m going with Jim. Too much experience.
Monrovia is solid. The QB transfer from SEM is pretty good. Why what that kid want to play in a wing t offense? He and MTown are better off with each other. Rams is setting a goal of 2,000 yards can he do it? Gonna be tough but I’m not gonna doubt him.
CV is in a rebuilding year talent wise but they’re coaching staff has proven time again to be one of the best so I think they’ll be ok.
Los Altos not being able to beat Workman is a story for sure. But it means zilch to LA, means a whole lot to Workman. La has two Athletes that will make some noise. Workman competed, I think that’s a victory already for that staff. Receiver there is legit.
El Rancho looks good talent wise. Good pieces. Coach looks like he’s getting a workout with all those signs. But definitely ER is gonna be in the hunt.
Marshall looked pretty bad, gonna be a long year but MVL is down this year.
Mountain View looked slightly better than Marshall. Definitely don’t look the part. But, let’s see them with pads.
It’s hard to judge Rosemead because they’re gonna pound the rock but didn’t look very good maybe slightly better than MV. I hear they have a RB who wasn’t at the tournament so we’ll see.
SEM looked small but athletic. Not very well coached they run the same crossing pattern play all day.cmon guys I know it’s wing t, but so is San Dimas and they run better stuff.
Arroyo looked ok they are much better than the other MVL teams but definitely have a talent drop off. There were two QBs for what it’s worth. Camacho looks strong and accurate but will he be eligible? Another thing about the MVL is no buzz around certain player. Feels like the last couple seasons there were filled with big names and known commodities. Hopefully they develop over the course of the season but I only know Camacho.
From T. Peterson: El Rancho wasn’t at the Shootout.
Okay guy. Who a bunch of guys that didn’t get playing time?
Only one kid was starting that was originally from LA from there freshman year, everybody else comes from other schools. Are you telling me that this coaching staff can’t win with the LA boys so they have to bring in all these kids to replace our boys. I hear that we are getting a number one running back and QB soon.
LA has so many kids because we had our original conqueror team plus all the kids the coach brought with him. So we now have two teams.
@LAparent, wasn’t that your old staff at Workman? It must have been tough to watch your team struggle mightily against a team so out manned….
LA has been transformed into something else! I heard the boys yesterday, its just not fair. If there was something that could be done it would be great. We will see all he** break loose once the new coach brings in his transfer qb and replaces our current qb. I can almost guarantee the drama
We had a lot of kids that started playing football from there freshman now on varsity not get much playing time yesterday. Coach rotated the players a little against BP, but had his starters in the whole game against Workman and we could beat them. What a joke. Workman is D13.
Yes LA has been flooded with transfers its pathetic.
Too many on here don’t understand how schools work. Every private school recruits kids and to some extent everyone understands. Every public school takes kids on permit. Some are athletes many are not. If you live in $&&/: school district (Pasadena) your options shouldn’t be 1.sentence your child to mediocrity or 2. pay $1.500 month tuition. Coaches don’t need to recruit. This 7-7 circuit CIF has authorized and social media tells students everything they need to know. I know nothing about Schurr, but if I lived close and my kid was a football player I would want them to play somewhere functional. If a school or program is a mess it isn’t the kids job to fix it. And the CV dad ain’t aware of the number of guys CV brings in. Of course to him they aren’t recruited. Everyone else is guilty of that, but my them, yeah ok buddy.
Montebello forgot to recruit or should I say no body wants to go there. Talked to many ex players. They said they regret going there.
@anon
The whole SGV is lacking size at the skill position. Wasn’t not very impressed with the teams out there this year. Then again football is played with pads and lineman. So we shall see how the season goes for these teams.
Arcadia sold their Soul’s to The ————. The other Teams out there Yesterday were not very good. Arcadia will win until they put pads on. Divisions 7 on down are very bad. Arroyo, Montebello,Schurr, and The rest of the teams were small and did not have a lot of players. Los Altos had a lot of kids but were very small in size. Salesian is in trouble they are Horrible and will get killed in league. So. El monte is not very good. Crescenta Valley did not look and lacked size also.
Using MD is not a good example, they are a private school with no boundaries and hefty tuition. Not everyone is blessed enough to afford a private school tuition. Having the CIF enforce rules would be nice but thats not going to happen either. All schools have to deal with transfers that dont move into their city. Its a part of high school sports.
Arcadia is the new cathedral …. plenty of summer fireworks , but can’t close in a real football game!
@ CV dad – My son goes to Arcadia HS, he has played football for Arcadia HS for 4 years and he starts both ways….so before you start throwing out inaccurate statements you should do a little homework first.
I watched the Arcadia vs Muir game. It was getting pretty intense both team have good Athletes that probably live in the same neighborhood. I want to give props to the Muir staff for keeping there cool throughout the game. Some of the Arcadia players showed that they do not know how to deal with success. One player scored on Muir threw the ball in the air threw his helmet in the air and took off his shirt and threw it in the air. A coached step in and the player told him you come out here and play. I guess that what to expect when you recuirt player. Muir lost but they won the Discipline part of the game.
@ Pacific Lg CV from time to time may get a non-local player show up on their doorstep but by no means are they
ever recruited and generally not star players.
I guess you didn’t see Los Altos!
C’mon man this is not a neighborhood team, but if everybody is okay with it don’t get mad when people call you out on it. Maybe one or two recruits, but the whole team.
I don’t understand the commenters here bashing kids or programs who get transfers or have kids on their team who weren’t literally born in the city. Every time I see someone from a team make those comments I personally know the school they represent does the same thing. Is there any competitive team that has only kids from a 10 square block radius? I don’t know of any. Mater Dei is the worst example but their kids come from 30 miles away and nobody cares. A Monrovia guy was on here bashing transfers and 2 days later they get a QB transfer. This isn’t high school football from 1985.
@cv dad still mad you were beat on your own field last year? Maybe we can bring up the players you bring in from Tujunga or the kids who should be going to Glendale and Hoover who somehow end up at CV. Just because you are in Glendale school district doesn’t mean you get to recruit every kid in Glendale. Don’t throw rocks you live in a glass house.
He must have been with one of those
0-4 teams or Taco man didn’t put enough meat on his tacos. Either way
Sounds like a hater 👊🏽👊🏽👊🏽
@ Arcadia res
Do not alarm yourself with the demographic change. It is only on paper.
Arcadia and Schurr are the two best teams money can buy. Right now, Arcadia’s getting more for its buck! We’ll see if this stays the same once the pads come on.
What I noticed is the disparity in head protection among players from different teams. I was not there but I hope that state of the art head protection becomes the primary focus for all of the teams in order to avoid future harm to the young players. Although I have told my grandsons to run cross country in the fall, football is the more popular sport and has attracted their participation.
@arcadia res it is doubtful you went or are an Arcadia resident. Why would chose now to look on a HS football blog in July? Rather your another local on here bitter your team lost. That’s fine, but be honest about your motive.
Nice job today Apaches!!
@ Arcadia res – You sound a little bitter and a lot stupid!!!
That’s Pasadena/La not Arcadia lol
Nice to see a home grown team full of neighborhood kids winning this championship. Alumni and student body must be very proud. Congratulations Indians.
Is this Arcadia in California that I grew up in. We don’t have this many black people that live in Arcadia if we have any. I know now we have a lot of Asians. I think you must have the wrong Arcadia.
Any or all of the Arcadia players should have no trouble landing a job as a firefighter after graduation; they have shown they can perform at a high level when the heat is on.