{"id":6030,"date":"2010-03-15T19:49:21","date_gmt":"2010-03-16T02:49:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/?p=6030"},"modified":"2010-03-15T19:52:02","modified_gmt":"2010-03-16T02:52:02","slug":"arellanes-update-los-altos-tradition-big-factor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/?p=6030","title":{"rendered":"Arellanes Update: Los Altos Tradition big Factor"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_6031\" style=\"width: 410px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-6031\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-6031\" src=\"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/sgv-shootout-042-400x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-6031\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jim Arellanes looking to restore the Los Altos tradition<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Tradition, tradition! Tradition!<\/p>\n<p>When\u00a0word leaked Friday that Northview Head Coach Jim Arellanes had accepted the same position at Los Altos, it was widely speculated, even by yours truly, that a stable teaching position was the overriding factor. But that wasn\u2019t the case at all.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->\u201cNo, my teaching position was secure at Northview,\u201d Arellanes said Monday.<\/p>\n<p>It was the tradition that Los Altos carries.<\/p>\n<p>Arellanes indeed could have stayed on as the Vikings coach, teaching position and all, as he had for the previous four years but when opportunity knocks\u2026\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis was the toughest professional decision I\u2019ve ever had to make- leaving Northview and those kids,\u201d Arellanes said. \u201cThey worked their tail off for me and I really appreciate all that they did.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Los Altos job was simply too appealing to pass up.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAt the same time I look forward to going to Los Altos!\u00a0 The pride, the tradition, the community- it\u2019s an exciting opportunity for me and my family.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Arellanes declared last week that he was not interested in the Los Altos job before the story got out late Friday that he indeed had indeed accepted the position.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSorry I had to be tight lipped about the whole process. I really just wanted to let the Northview boys hear it from me. They deserved that,\u201d Arellanes added.<\/p>\n<p>Arellanes will begin to assemble his staff immediately with spring drills just a couple of months away.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tradition, tradition! Tradition! When\u00a0word leaked Friday that Northview Head Coach Jim Arellanes had accepted the same position at Los Altos, it was widely speculated, even by yours truly, that a stable teaching position was the overriding factor. But that wasn\u2019t the case at all.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[200,503,2402,116],"class_list":["post-6030","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-high-school-sports","tag-jim-arellanes","tag-los-altos","tag-los-altos-tradition","tag-northview"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6030","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\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6030"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6030\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6033,"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6030\/revisions\/6033"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6030"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6030"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6030"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}