{"id":30636,"date":"2012-12-31T13:39:30","date_gmt":"2012-12-31T20:39:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/?p=30636"},"modified":"2017-06-10T10:48:39","modified_gmt":"2017-06-10T17:48:39","slug":"mid-valley-division-offensive-coordinator-of-the-year-el-monte-oc-brian-tabatabai","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/?p=30636","title":{"rendered":"Mid-Valley Division Offensive Coordinator of The Year: El Monte OC Brian Tabatabai"},"content":{"rendered":"
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El Monte OC Brian Tabatabai & quarterback Brandon Martinez<\/p><\/div>\n

\u201cDo you think it\u2019s going to work Joe?\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cBest thing for a sportswriter to do is to keep his mouth shut,\u201d said MVS Editor Joe Torosian when the question was put to him.<\/p>\n

When El Monte revealed what it was going to be doing on offense this season Joe T. didn\u2019t say anything. Area coaches told The MID that they thought it was crazy and that it would all come back to bite them in the tail before the season was over.<\/p>\n

After twelve games and a season as unique as any other, going back to 1930, two things proved true: Sportswriters know very little and nothing swam back to bite the Lions in the tail in the fall of 2012.<\/p>\n

Tabatabai concocted an offense that made punts as rare as UFO sightings and point after kicks non-existent.<\/p>\n

Unofficially (we welcome the correction) the Lions scored 63 touchdowns this season and converted 37 two point conversions…and they had a kicker. The philosophy was to keep the pressure on and that\u2019s what Tabatabai\u2019s offense did in a record shattering year.<\/p>\n

Fourth and nine, fourth and 12, from their own 29…no problem. They went for it.<\/p>\n

\u201cYour thought is always to hold for three plays and get off the field, but not with these guys,\u201d said Montebello DC Brian Zavala…as did a number of other area coaches.<\/p>\n

The dividends of this generational team were big. The school\u2019s best season since winning CIF in 1930. A share of the Mission Valley League title for the first time since 1979. The most prolific passing\/offensive season since 1979. The greatest season of any quarterback in school history. Arguably the greatest season any receiver has had in school history.<\/p>\n

The snapping of a 21 year losing streak to Arroyo… The list goes on and on.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think they are too small up front,\u201d Joe T. April, 2012. \u201cI think Brandon Martinez might be running for his life all season.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cHe (pointing at Joe T.) doesn\u2019t think you\u2019re good enough,\u201d Tabatabai said to his offensive line in an early August workout.<\/p>\n

He\u2019s young, but if he never coaches again 2012 will forever be remembered as Tabatabai\u2019s masterpiece.<\/p>\n

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For right now…this is the picture we are going to use. It fits.<\/p><\/div>\n

***<\/strong><\/p>\n

Northeast Newcomer of the Year: Nordhoff\u2019s Taylor Livingston<\/strong><\/p>\n

Southeast Newcomer of the Year: Downey\u2019s Justin Huff<\/strong><\/p>\n

Mid-Valley Newcomer of the Year: Sierra Canyon\u2019s Isaiah Renfro<\/strong><\/p>\n

Northwest DC of The Year: Nordhoff\u2019s Cliff Farrar<\/strong><\/p>\n

Southeast DC of the Year: La Serna\u2019s Margarito Beltran<\/strong><\/p>\n

Mid-Valley DC of the Year: Northview\u2019s Marcel Perez<\/strong><\/p>\n

Northwest OC of the Year: La Salle\u2019s Russell Gordon<\/strong><\/p>\n

Southeast OC of the Year: Norwalk\u2019s Jessie Ceniceros<\/strong><\/p>\n

Mid-Valley OC of the Year: El Monte\u2019s Brian Tabatabai<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Other release Dates:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Northwest Coach of the Year\u2014January 3<\/p>\n

Southeast Coach of the Year\u2014January 4<\/p>\n

Mid-Valley Coach of the Year\u2014January 6<\/p>\n

Northwest Player of the Year\u2014January 7<\/p>\n

Southeast Player of the Year\u2014January 8<\/p>\n

Mid-Valley Player of the Year\u2014January 9<\/p>\n

Northwest Most Valuable Player\u2014January 10<\/p>\n

Southeast Most Valuable Player\u2014January 11<\/p>\n

Mid-Valley Most Valuable Player\u2014January 12<\/p>\n

All Northwest Team\u2014January 13<\/p>\n

All Southeast Team\u2014January 14<\/p>\n

All Mid-Valley Team\u2014January 15<\/p>\n

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\u201cDo you think it\u2019s going to work Joe?\u201d \u201cBest thing for a sportswriter to do is to keep his mouth shut,\u201d said MVS Editor Joe Torosian when the question was put to him.<\/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":[296,464,5759,3542,365,5761,6370,8661],"class_list":["post-30636","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hsfootball","tag-brian-tabatabai","tag-brian-zavala","tag-el-monte-lions-football","tag-joe-t","tag-joe-torosian","tag-mid-valley-sports","tag-montebello-oilers-football","tag-mvs"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30636","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=30636"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30636\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":59270,"href":"https:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30636\/revisions\/59270"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30636"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30636"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30636"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}