{"id":23218,"date":"2012-03-30T09:30:39","date_gmt":"2012-03-30T16:30:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/?p=23218"},"modified":"2012-03-30T10:56:25","modified_gmt":"2012-03-30T17:56:25","slug":"fanview-lite-march-30-2012","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/?p=23218","title":{"rendered":"Fanview Lite: March 30, 2012"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Joe T.<\/p><\/div>\n

Kick it!<\/p>\n

The calmest guy I spoke to this week was \u201cHis Arroyo Baldness\u201d Jim Singiser. While he\u2019s not thrilled with the pending shifts coming to the football divisions it was interesting to hear the guy, who is capable of getting so hot at times you can fry an egg on the back of his neck, keep his cool.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m not going to point fingers or accuse people,\u201d he said while fixing a sprinkler in his backyard. \u201cCIF\u2019s Glenn Martinez has a tough job and whatever he does someone is not going to be happy.\u201d<\/p>\n

But he was still Jim Singiser.<\/p>\n

\u201cMoving the Rio Hondo League up into the Southeast wouldn\u2019t be fair,\u201d he said his tone changing. \u201cBut bringing the Alpha in to compete with Monrovia?\u201d<\/p>\n

When Jim Healy was still doing his show back in the day he would play a clip that said; \u201cIt\u2019s all Zola Budd\u2019s fault!\u201d<\/p>\n

(Budd was the South African runner who got tangled up with then American sweetheart Mary Decker, costing Decker a shot at gold in the 1984 Olympics.)<\/p>\n

In this case it\u2019s all Monrovia\u2019s fault! If they don\u2019t win back to back titles and participate in four consecutive semifinal games, then the rest of the Mid-Valley Division wouldn\u2019t be staring at the business end of Sierra Canyon football.<\/p>\n

I understand enrollment issues and that there are other sports to consider, but really…lets be honest. If a sport doesn\u2019t pay for itself then it is essentially living off football. So every move, and yes moves have to be made, should be done with consideration to football first.<\/p>\n

The enrollment argument doesn\u2019t always wash. Just because school has a larger enrollment the demographics of that enrollment often is made up of groups that just won\u2019t play football.<\/p>\n

With that said, maybe the Rio Hondo should have been moved up into the Southeast.<\/p>\n

Obviously Monrovia is ready to compete with anybody on the planet right now, and even though the rest of the league has been down we\u2019ve seen movement. Things are happening at South Pas and San Marino. La Canada made a great hire. So look at the rest of the Southeast Division.<\/p>\n

El Rancho, Pioneer, Whittier? Are they far and away better than the rest of the RHL? Hoover, Glendale? And it\u2019s only Brandon Cox that keeps Pasadena a notch above a Rio Hondo League school.<\/p>\n

Have you seen Artesia and Glenn? Rowland didn\u2019t exactly tear it up last year and has recent as 2010 Los Altos was winless.<\/p>\n

Would moving the Rio Hondo into the Southeast really been that much of a punishment considering some of the schools in the division?<\/p>\n

Again, I understand Monrovia is at another level.<\/p>\n

\u201cInstead of dealing with just one school, Monrovia,\u201d says La Puente HC Brandon Rohrer. \u201cThey moved three leagues instead. It just doesn\u2019t make sense.\u201d<\/p>\n

The argument of moving the Montview to the Northwest, along with the Olympic League, was to bring relief. In the last two years the Montview has one playoff win. The Mission Valley League two.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf CIF wanted to bring competitive equity why are they moving us with the Olympic? The Olympic has seven playoff wins in the last two years,\u201d says Rohrer. \u201cHow come we are not staying with the Mission Valley League with only two playoff wins? The Mission Valley is most like us in competition, enrollment, demographics why is the Montview being separated from the MVL?\u201d<\/p>\n

The Montview currently has eight schools. In the old Mid-Valley set up a fourth place team from the league would qualify for the playoffs.<\/p>\n

\u201cFor us it would cost three thousand dollars in transportation to go play a playoff game in Ventura Country,\u201d said Rohrer. \u201cWith all the economic issues going on and talk on our district of dropping a game from the non-league schedule because of cost factors, how are we supposed to go to our district and say we need three grand to get to a playoff game?\u201d<\/p>\n

Rohrer pointed out to Mid Valley Sports on Tuesday night that some school districts have the final say in approving playoff games. He argued what happens if the district decides it doesn\u2019t have the money to\u00a0spend.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe liked the local feel of the Mid-Valley,\u201d said Maranatha HC Pete Karavedas. \u201cWe liked the local rivalries, but we accept the challenge to move up. I believe this is the third time in the last six years Maranatha has been moved up. We did really enjoy our time in the Mid-Valley.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThere\u2019s a lot going on,\u201d said Duarte HC Jason Martin. \u201cBut we\u2019re going to focus on playing one game at a time and play whoever is in front of us.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Mission Valley League will make its appeal on April 4th. The initial MVL appeal was to leave the rest of the division alone.<\/p>\n

\u201cBecause we knew CIF wanted to get away from six league divisions, we wanted to at least keep the San Gabriel Valley schools together,\u201d said Singiser. The proposal was to let the Olympic go to the Northwest, while the Rio Hondo, Almont, Valle Vista, Montview, and MVL stayed together. \u201cAnd have them move the one non-geographic league. Now I\u2019m not sure what we\u2019ll do as a league.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI think it was fine the way it was,\u201d said San Gabriel HC Jude Oliva as the Almont League prepares to make its own appeal very soon. \u201cThere was nothing wrong with it. I like the local environment, I hate to see us get away from that. It kind of seems they are looking for competition for Monrovia, but re-leaguing comes next year so I think they are jumping the gun a bit.\u201d<\/p>\n

Yes, this will be continued.<\/p>\n

The Dude abides\u2026<\/p>\n

473<\/p>\n

Proverbs 4:20-27<\/p>\n

Contact Joe at joe@midvalleysports.com<\/a><\/p>\n

Follow him on Twitter at @joet13b<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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