{"id":89786,"date":"2025-04-25T20:08:00","date_gmt":"2025-04-26T03:08:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/?p=89786"},"modified":"2025-04-25T23:04:26","modified_gmt":"2025-04-26T06:04:26","slug":"the-peterson-principle-4-25-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/?p=89786","title":{"rendered":"The Peterson Principle: 4\/25\/2025"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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By Tim Peterson <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ready for some big changes? College sports may not be the only ones to have super conferences. There are proposals on the table for the Foothill League re-leaguing that could see local leagues like the Rio Hondo, Pacific, Almont, Mission Valley and Del Rio all merge into super conferences. <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n

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One proposal has the Rio Hondo and Pacific Leagues joining forces along with Marhsall and Gabrielino in the MVL to one form one big super conference. There would be three leagues, or tiers if you will, within the conference and they would play in three different divisions in the playoffs with the top tier being in the higher divisions. For football the tiers would be 4-6-6 but all other sports it would be 5-5-6. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Pacific\/Rio Hondo for football could look something like this: <\/p>\n\n\n\n

A-Tier: Muir, Burbank, Monrovia, Pasadena, <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

B-Tier: South Pasadena, Burroughs, Crescenta Valley, La Canada, San Marino, Arcadia<\/strong> <\/p>\n\n\n\n

C-Tier: Temple City, Hoover, Glendale, Blair, Marshall, Gabrielino <\/strong> <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Another proposal has the Mission Valley and the Almont League merging along with El Rancho in the Del Rio which could look like this. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Tier-A: Arroyo, Schurr, El Rancho, South El Monte<\/strong> <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Tier-B: El Monte, Bell Gardens, San Gabriel, Montebello<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Tier-C: Keppel, Mt. View, Rosemead, Alhambra <\/strong> <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Again, none of this is etched in stone. They are just proposals (suggestions) and I’m just spitballing on the tiers. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Another “suggestion” has the Suburban Valley Conference that would feature powerhouses like Downey, La Serna and Mayfair at the top. The middle tier would be teams like Santa Fe, Norwalk, La Mirada, Warren, Cal and Paramount while teams such as Firebaugh, Glenn, Cerritos and Pioneer would be in the bottom tier. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The idea is to bring competitive equity into play to make each league within a conference the most competitive it can be. In the Rio Hondo\/Pacific Conference for example if three teams made the playoffs in the top tier, two qualified in the middle tier and two in the bottom that will be seven of the 16 teams in the playoffs. This could vary depending on the sport. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

It’s not only good for parity but it also creates some nice matchups. Just imagine Monrovia-Muir and El Rancho-Arroyo on a regular basis. Schurr vs Arroyo works too. And La Serna facing Downey for a league title…every year…that’s huge. The energy and buzz that would bring before the playoffs even started would be off the charts. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Back to parity for a minute. Think about this. Suddenly teams like Temple City and El Rancho could be favorites to win the league title. That wouldn’t happen…at least not right now…in the current format. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

So when will all of this happen? The voting will take place May 1 and if it’s voted in it will be for the 2026 season. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Let’s hear it for competitive equity! <\/p>\n\n\n\n

That’s my principle. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Tim can be reached at tim.midvalleysports@gmail.com or on Twitter (X) @tspeterson40 Facebook-Tim Peterson <\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

By Tim Peterson Ready for some big changes? College sports may not be the only ones to have super conferences. There are proposals on the table for the Foothill League re-leaguing that could see local leagues like the Rio Hondo, Pacific, Almont, Mission Valley and Del Rio all merge into super conferences.<\/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":[12817],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-89786","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-petersonprince"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89786","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=89786"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89786\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":89837,"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89786\/revisions\/89837"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=89786"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=89786"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=89786"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}