Time to pull the plug on Pioneer football. The new stadium didn’t help and multiple coaching changes fizzled out. The program is like a terminal patient that is merely surviving, but without any hope of being brought back to life. Use the stadium for soccer, or possibly rent it out to St. Paul for their big-draw games. The school should have been closed twenty years ago, so this move is long, long overdue.
Im a little surprized any kids go to Pioneer. WUHSD jerrymanders them so they get kids from the poorest Whittier areas. I mean look at their attendance area map. It snakes around from Whittier Blvd and the 605 to practically La Mirada. Taking in Los Nietos and the gang infested areas of South Whittier. Of course if you live in the nicer area of the attendance near La Mirada or your son is a great athlete you want your kid to use open enrollment to go to Cal or La Serna which are nicer and closer than Pioneer. WUHSD in their haves and have nots jerrymandering created Pioneer to get the gangsters. But lo and behold the great faculty and coaches keep pulling rabbits out of the hat over there year after year with terrific over acheiving scholars and sports teams. Congrats Titans, keep fighting the odds and haters.
La Serna has a monopoly on the Whittier area public school talent. That’s why the other schools are struggling. Either change the system or change the leagues.
Not that it means much, but ER easily beat cal at a tournament this summer. I’m curious why everyone is so quick to always move ER below cal in these rankings when ER beats cal every year?
La Serna is the team to beat in the Del Rio League, Cal and El Rancho are playing for the second automatic playoff berth. I’ve seen Cal a couple times (at San Dimas and against Santa Fe and Montebello a week ago) Cal will be young but competitive! They may surprise some teams this season.
Del Rio Standings
1. La Serna
2. Cal
3. El Rancho
4. Santa Fe
5. Whittier
Is that green Kool-Aid they are brewing at Pioneer ? Santa Fe was at all time low last year and Pioneer would have beaten them , Whittier toss-up game . They would be fourth place at best and hoping Santa Fe and Whittier remain depleted #tuffytitanicdelusion
Before we hear about Pioneer’s supremacy over certain Del Rio clubs, how about telling us when (if ever) the green ones will be good enough to get out of the 605. Looks like making the playoffs in division 73 didn’t move the needle much in that regard.
@Best of Luck: Point taken, and it may be correct on the whole. Yet, one counterexample is Los Altos who desperately needed coaching to re-emerge to fore. Granted, that’s but one example I have offhand, which is why I say you may be correct on the whole, but there it is.
If any year that Pioneer can compete in this league is now. La Serna no doubt is coming in first place, by default ER is coming in second and that brings Cal to come in third place because Whittier and Santa Fe are very bad. Pioneer would take second in this weak league.
I’ve been inspired by the rise of Condor football since the opening of their new stadium. While the rapidity of ascendance hasn’t quite matched that of Pioneer, we must remember that the Titans got their new venue a couple years before Cal. I used to think that getting good players and coaching them properly was key, but now I’m all-in on tear-downs and rebuilds.
Why rent stadium out to st. Paul they have one,soccer is played at there.
Time to pull the plug on Pioneer football. The new stadium didn’t help and multiple coaching changes fizzled out. The program is like a terminal patient that is merely surviving, but without any hope of being brought back to life. Use the stadium for soccer, or possibly rent it out to St. Paul for their big-draw games. The school should have been closed twenty years ago, so this move is long, long overdue.
Im a little surprized any kids go to Pioneer. WUHSD jerrymanders them so they get kids from the poorest Whittier areas. I mean look at their attendance area map. It snakes around from Whittier Blvd and the 605 to practically La Mirada. Taking in Los Nietos and the gang infested areas of South Whittier. Of course if you live in the nicer area of the attendance near La Mirada or your son is a great athlete you want your kid to use open enrollment to go to Cal or La Serna which are nicer and closer than Pioneer. WUHSD in their haves and have nots jerrymandering created Pioneer to get the gangsters. But lo and behold the great faculty and coaches keep pulling rabbits out of the hat over there year after year with terrific over acheiving scholars and sports teams. Congrats Titans, keep fighting the odds and haters.
La Serna has a monopoly on the Whittier area public school talent. That’s why the other schools are struggling. Either change the system or change the leagues.
Titans used to compete with all Del Rio teams before open enrollment.Check their enrollment and compare it with others in that league.
Not that it means much, but ER easily beat cal at a tournament this summer. I’m curious why everyone is so quick to always move ER below cal in these rankings when ER beats cal every year?
La Serna is the team to beat in the Del Rio League, Cal and El Rancho are playing for the second automatic playoff berth. I’ve seen Cal a couple times (at San Dimas and against Santa Fe and Montebello a week ago) Cal will be young but competitive! They may surprise some teams this season.
Del Rio Standings
1. La Serna
2. Cal
3. El Rancho
4. Santa Fe
5. Whittier
Santa Fe and Whittier aren’t close!
Is that green Kool-Aid they are brewing at Pioneer ? Santa Fe was at all time low last year and Pioneer would have beaten them , Whittier toss-up game . They would be fourth place at best and hoping Santa Fe and Whittier remain depleted #tuffytitanicdelusion
Before we hear about Pioneer’s supremacy over certain Del Rio clubs, how about telling us when (if ever) the green ones will be good enough to get out of the 605. Looks like making the playoffs in division 73 didn’t move the needle much in that regard.
Pioneer would not compete in this league, they can’t even compete in the 605 league, they would go 0-5 every year.
@Best of Luck: Point taken, and it may be correct on the whole. Yet, one counterexample is Los Altos who desperately needed coaching to re-emerge to fore. Granted, that’s but one example I have offhand, which is why I say you may be correct on the whole, but there it is.
Say what ?
Hasn’t matched Pioneer? Because of playoff berth in sad sack 605 league , and first round exit ?
If any year that Pioneer can compete in this league is now. La Serna no doubt is coming in first place, by default ER is coming in second and that brings Cal to come in third place because Whittier and Santa Fe are very bad. Pioneer would take second in this weak league.
I’ve been inspired by the rise of Condor football since the opening of their new stadium. While the rapidity of ascendance hasn’t quite matched that of Pioneer, we must remember that the Titans got their new venue a couple years before Cal. I used to think that getting good players and coaching them properly was key, but now I’m all-in on tear-downs and rebuilds.