Tadeo Zuniga is looking to be the next great Burroughs tailback.
T-Minus-122 Days until “The Mid Valley Classic”
Good Evening!
I’m not saying there aren’t any good backs out there, but it seems heading into the summer of 2010 there are not a lot of established, game breaking type, of ball carriers coming back.
As The Temple City Turns: I got nothing. Which, in some small way, is a good thing. Which, in a very large way, is also a bad thing. They are four months to the day away from hosting Arroyo at home.
Many teams are coming out this week for official spring workouts. The rest over the course of the next two weeks.
…But not in the Home of the Camellias.
I asked James Heggins who is starting quarterback was going to be the other night on Facebook.
“Nice try,” he typed back to me. “Open competition is a good thing.”
Of course the good news of the day is the St. Louis Rams have traded tackle Alex Barron to the Dallas Cowboys for linebacker Bobby Carpenter. As Captain Spaulding used to say; “Hooray, hooray, hooray!”
I’ve just become pro-Dallas. Then again I would have become pro-Pelosi, pro-Reid, pro-Arnold…pro anything, pro anyone willing to take nice guy slug Barron off the Rams hands.
Carpenter is hardly Jack Ham, but he’s not going to be killing drives with false starts and holding calls.
The dude at Trader Joe’s asks my wife and I how “our” Mothers Day weekend went?
Huh?
I must be out of touch… but I haven’t been called a mother since high school and no one ever gave me a gift for it.
Speaking of which… Best Buy must have been the hot place for Mothers Day gifts on Sunday. I walk into the front door and Bishop Amat receiver Wallace Gonzalez runs into me…I turn another corner and a pair of thousand-yard backs from Temple City, Williams Do and Max Ruckle, are taking care of holiday business as well.
That’s good…
…And speaking of good…I got a really good feeling about Burroughs football when I was snapping pictures this afternoon… And, no, Keith Knoop didn’t give me any gear.
Prior to rapping with me the Indians HC was visited by several alumni; inlcuding wide receiver Chris Morris currently at Northern Colorado and Sebastian Valenzuela in his second year at Washington State.
“We really like what we’ve got coming back along on our front line,” said Knoop. “Prior to last season not one of our linemen had taken a varsity snap. This year I’ve got four of them coming back.”
The key man in the trenches will be left tackle Steven Escoboza, second team all league selection a year ago. It’s open competion at left guard, but the center will be Rookie Hussakhoon (already a candidate for name of the year), right guard Garrett Schavielo, and right tackle Raul Martinez.
A name to listen for at tight end and along the defensive front is 6’5” Ike Nwachie.
Lucas Yanez is back for his third year at quarterback, while Tadeo Zuniga will be first in the slot to replace the departing Dalton Williams. Anthony Carter buried on the depth chart in 2009 figures in the mix at wide receiver with Kohl Adams-hurd moving on.
On defense Austin Allen and Tyler Tilton are back, but the great news is the return of a healthy Nick Brown.
“He blew out his knee in the Muir game,” said Knoop. “But he’s back now and looks terrific.” Brown did look solid negotiating his way around the field without a brace or any sort of contraption around is knee.
Along with Burbank, Burroughs has to be considered one of the favorites in the Pacific but with their home field under renovation they’ll be on the road all of 2010.
I don’t like the Indians non-league schedule or a sort of redux of its time in the Foothill League… (For some reason Knoop hasn’t figured out its all about what’s best for The Mid… Call me crazy)… Still, good team, good program, lots of talent… You heard it here first, they’re going to the second round!
Sure, with four out of five returning on the offensive line and a three year starter at quarterback, you'd be smiling too if you were Keith Knoop
Stay thirsty my friends…
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