{"id":30561,"date":"2012-12-27T13:24:35","date_gmt":"2012-12-27T20:24:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/?p=30561"},"modified":"2017-06-10T00:58:54","modified_gmt":"2017-06-10T07:58:54","slug":"northwest-division-offensive-coordinator-of-the-year-la-salle-hcoc-russell-gordon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/?p=30561","title":{"rendered":"Northwest Division Offensive Coordinator of The Year: La Salle HC\/OC Russell Gordon"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_30560\" style=\"width: 496px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/Russell-Gordon1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-30560\" class=\" wp-image-30560 \" title=\"Russell Gordon1\" src=\"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/Russell-Gordon1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"486\" height=\"444\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-30560\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">La Salle HC\/OC Russell Gordon (courtesy of James Macpherson and Pasadena Now\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.PasadenaNow.com\/\">http:\/\/www.PasadenaNow.com<\/a>\u00a0)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Gordon was a late arrival to our discussion, we actually were close to a consensus on someone else until his name was introduced and we were clear that he was masterminding the Lancers offense.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>In the previous two seasons La Salle went a combined 1-19. In the previous three seasons combined (2009-2011) they scored a total of 558 points.<\/p>\n<p>In 2012 the Lancers went 10-1, in large part because of an offense that put 517 points on the board.<\/p>\n<p>If you want to attack the schedule and the first round bounce, go for it but the Northwest was a division of have and have-nots in 2012. Three teams scored more than 500 points on the season; North Torrance, Nordhoff, and La Salle. The Saxons and Rangers played 14 games, the Lancers just 11.<\/p>\n<p>Primarily a rushing team 16 different players scored touchdowns on the ground. Seven others divided up 24 touchdown passes. Gordon\u2019s offense averaged 47 points a game, the next closest was North Torrance at 38.<\/p>\n<p><strong>***<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Northeast Necomer of the Year: Nordhoff\u2019s Taylor Livingston<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Southeast Newcomer of the Year: Downey\u2019s Justin Huff<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Mid-Valley Newcomer of the Year: Sierra Canyon\u2019s Isaiah Renfro<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Northwest DC of The Year: Nordhoff\u2019s Cliff Farrar<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Southeast DC of the Year: La Serna\u2019s Margarito Beltran<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Mid-Valley DC of the Year: Northview\u2019s Marcel Perez<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Northwest OC of the Year: La Salle\u2019s Russell Gordon<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>***<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>Other release Dates:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Southeast OC of the Year\u2014December 29<\/p>\n<p>Mid-Valley OC of the Year\u2014December 31<\/p>\n<p>Northwest Coach of the Year\u2014January 3<\/p>\n<p>Southeast Coach of the Year\u2014January 4<\/p>\n<p>Mid-Valley Coach of the Year\u2014January 6<\/p>\n<p>Northwest Player of the Year\u2014January 7<\/p>\n<p>Southeast Player of the Year\u2014January 8<\/p>\n<p>Mid-Valley Player of the Year\u2014January 9<\/p>\n<p>Northwest Most Valuable Player\u2014January 10<\/p>\n<p>Southeast Most Valuable Player\u2014January 11<\/p>\n<p>Mid-Valley Most Valuable Player\u2014January 12<\/p>\n<p>All Northwest Team\u2014January 13<\/p>\n<p>All Southeast Team\u2014January 14<\/p>\n<p>All Mid-Valley Team\u2014January 15<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gordon was a late arrival to our discussion, we actually were close to a consensus on someone else until his name was introduced and we were clear that he was masterminding the Lancers offense.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[12816],"tags":[7534,5761,7816,8062,8659,7864],"class_list":["post-30561","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hsfootball","tag-la-salle-lancers-football","tag-mid-valley-sports","tag-nordhoff-rangers-football","tag-north-torrance-saxons-football","tag-northwest-division-football","tag-russell-gordon"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30561","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=30561"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30561\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58817,"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30561\/revisions\/58817"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30561"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30561"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30561"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}