Monrovia will be a top team with returning and never forgotton devonte walls coming back from a 2yr stay at texas.. will be explosive this year and with a all senior line with experience well have funn watching these kids playy

greg:
what all senior line with experience are you talking about? Monrovia? ‘Cause M-Towns only bringing back one starter from their O-line from last year.

Monrovia has been taking some heat regarding behavior at a passing tourney on Aram’s blog.
When you get better and in the light…more people seem to look for ways to knock you down. Here is a paste :
Goldenarm said:

There was a day when a victory over Monrovia could be traced to a sprinkling of poor attitudes, that had been allowed to fester and grow into undisciplined play. Mistakes, lack of focus. Hell, fistfights at the banquet was how a season sometimes closed out for Monrovia.

M-town opponents can pray for this day to return – but it will not. If you are going to bicker and in-fight – do it in passing tourneys and practice, then flush it out and make damn sure the air is cleared come Sept.
I would place bets on Maddox and company NOT embarrassing themselves this year. The Cat staff is far too experienced and motivated to let cockiness and poor sportsmanship be the banner Monrovia is carrying and waving in the face of teams they face.

Trash talk, stupidity and testosterone are always on close up display in passing tourneys because of the ease of up close and personal public access to the teams and players. Observers who think Maddox did not come away from the San Dimas loss with a better understanding of what needs doing – are short on knowledge of the man. The team is far from perfection -but has both the senior leadership and coaching to overcome the loss of a key player – or a flare up of inappropriate behavior

To me in this decade, year in and year out St. Francis usually seems to be a notch higher than the other WSGV schools, they play in a higher division and have held their own against some big schools, Muir also strikes me as a notch above the rest and like St. Francis has usually played in higher divisions than the rest of the WSGV although they struggled last season. This year many are thinking Monrovia will be stepping up into this top group, I get a feeling they
just may do that, the only uncertainty is do they have the line to match up to the next level of play, I thought they did in 06 but they fell apart at the end of the season. Last years Wildcats had a good year but the division is watered down compared to previous years and they had a light schedule for the year so we still don’t know how good they really were.
We’ll get a better idea this year when they go up against South Hills and Glendora.
Schurr, Burbank, San Marino, Rosemead, Burroughs, San Gabriel can make things interesting too, and maybe with the new staff Alhambra will start making waves.
1 – St. Francis
2 – Muir
3 – Monrovia
4 – Burbank
5 – Schurr
6 – Burroughs
7 – Rosemead
8 – San Marino
9 – San Gabriel
10- Alhambra
7 –

Dan: Some of your picks make sense but Burbank, Burroughs and Schurr are not in the PSN area along with CV.
What about some of the smaller schools, La Salle, Maranatha, RHP. Any room in your top 10 for any of them?

I think as Yoder really sinks into the varsity program, things will only get better for La Canada.
They just need an athlete here or there to put them over the hump.
There is no question the RHL needs a stronger Temple City team, one that comes prepared to play each and every Friday. Back when Backus got his walking papers -I said it would be 5 years until the Rams would rise again – I hope that proves wrong. What little I have seen of McFarland I like, and I am hoping he can field a competitive team THIS YEAR.
There are holes to plug in TC, but there are also a handful of returnees who unquestionably have some heart. I hope we see a defense that does not make you turn away and piss your pants every time a long pass rains out over the middle of the field. Getting burned deep is demoralizing, especially when the passes are horribly thrown floaters that should be ripe melons to intercept or at the least bat away. Desperation throws became an offensive strategy last year against the Rams.
Good luck Coach M and the Rams.
How about a bio on his assistants?

GA,

I think TC will surprise a lot of folks. By next season, “order” will be restored (M-town and TC on top).

In other news, is Blair really playing a school new to 11-man football?

http://www.dailynews.com/sports/ci_15580821
MOVIN’ ON UP

Fulton Prep, one of the San Fernando Valley’s most successful 8-man programs, is moving up to 11-man as part of the new City Section small schools league.

It will be interesting to see if Fulton Prep can put up 47 points per game like last year, when the Jaguars advanced to the City 8-man final. Their first game is Sept. 2 against Blair of Pasadena at Muir High.

“I’m ready to work some magic. I’m excited. This is what I’ve always wanted to do,” coach Sean Jackson said.

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Calpreps does not list this game for Blair.

Dear Dan,

You are not the brightest star in the galaxy to have San marino ahead of Arcadia. A really bad 2009 arcadia team still went toe to toe with Burroughs and Burbank. It went down to the wire. i would have arcadia ranked 6th or 7th on the preseason poll.

It must be that time of year again to bravely go where few dare to go before. Looking at the top 10 lists, I absolutely agree that St. Francis, Muir, Monrovia and Arcadia belong at the top of the ladder. However, somewhere, this year there should be a nod given to the POSSIBILITY that So Pas could finally compete again in both the RHL and the WSGV. It is a fact that the 4-5 Soph starters from a couple of years ago are back and hopefully hungry to finally excel. In addition, for the first time in a long time the JV program has been fairly successful over the recent past. Finally, Sr. QB Conor Bednarsky is a 3rd year starter with a D1 physique and arm who knows this is his last chance to impress. Combine that with the fact that he is one of only 2 RHL (and only a few WSGV) QB’s to return this year may make a solid difference.

Given the tremendous impact Yortsos, Forgatch, Hung and Harwich had for SM (about 90% of their offense) and no QB who threw a pass other than the the above, SM may be in trouble. Again unless they continue to recruit players from other cities as it appears they have no problem with CIF doing.

Similarly with both LC and TC, their QB’s, WR’s and RB’s were the heart and soul of their teams last year and other than one of the LC backs are all gone, having graduated. As a result, other than Monrovia, who is a lock to run the league, SP may be the most experienced team in the RHL.

That all being said though, SP is stuck yet again with Ed Smith as coach. He has year after year demonstrated an ability to lose with both good players and bad, make bad player and play calls and more importantly to “turn off” and not motivate the players on his team if things get a bit tough. While it is clear that the last 2 years he has not had the horses, he certainly does in 2010. Let’s hope he does not waste them as he did in 2007 where SP had three skill position and defensive players who are playing at the next level. David Allen – full ride LB UCLA, Jonathon Troast – full ride QB Prairie View A&M, Steven Colliau – D3 WR Washington & Lee University.

You Arcadia fans are funny. Your record last year was 2-7-1. And now this year you demand to be in the top 10. You return basically the same key skill players minus Tuck and you’re losing a considerable amount of experienced size on the oline. Your qb has d1 size but still needs a lot of work, specially when dealing against speedy defensive backs(muir and pasadena) and is no real threat to run. You have two outstanding rbs but both are undersized and no roster depth at that position. With the results you had last year, naturally fans want to talk about the experience gained and that this team will be better cause of it. What they fail to realize is that this applies to all the other teams as well. And about that comment about being better than all of the RHL. Didn’t you guys get spanked by monrovia and barely tied a one dimensional tc? Instead of always TALKING about how good you guys are, why don’t we all just wait for you guys to SHOW us how good you guys are? The way you guys are blogging you would think you were 8-2 last year.

91030 is completely right. Even with gold studded rosters, Ed Smith has managed to drive his program into the ground. If South Pas wants to breathe new life into their system as they have been trying so hard to do, Smith is the first thing that needs to leave.

Seriously,

Arcadia will be way better. We were not talking like this last year. Everyone new it would be a down year and it was. Arcadia started 7 sophomores last season, they are all returning and look pretty good. The senior group is much better because of the return of AJ Rail at LB. I am looking at a 6-4 or 7-3 regular season record.

I think Monrovia’s offensive line will be fundamentally sound, probably more so than at any point in a very long time; three year starter at QB; stable of running backs. We will have the players to score some points even though the competition is tougher.

Defensively, losing Lowden hurts, as does other reliable guys like Haggard, etc. We need McCarthy to play to his potential (big time, game changing potential) and for Bubba to come back healthy and stuff the inside run. The key will be the self-less trench dogs who develop into scrappy players willing to sacrifice their bodies and stop the inside run so that the backers can scrape and get the outside run and not rely on the DBs to compromise deep coverage in order to give run support. That said, I hope our DBs are not set so deep this year.

Year #3 of the Maddox era looks good. Monrovia football is still building.

Seriously,

Yeah, AJ Rail helps the apaches tremendously. He is playing LB. Good size. 6’1 or so and about 205, very quick, don’t know about fast but can tackle really well. He will probably be a strong safety in college.

Lets see how well he does after his ACL surgery. Saw him not too long ago working out and he shows no problems with the knee. I wish him the best.

Seriously,

If you looked at the dialogue we were talking about in the decade of the 2000′s. Arcadia should’ve been in the top 5 in the decade. We were 2-2 with Monrovia in the 2000′s so get over it. Arcadia spanked the cats two years back-to-back in 07 and 08. They whooped Arcadia last season and in 06 it was a pretty tough victory with Monrovia running the ball extremely well and winning 27-13.

Arcadia handles every team in the RHL but Monrovia. Arcadia was extremely young and we predicted it wouldn’t be a good year. This year should be better, 6-4 is my prediction if they can at least stay somewhat healthy.

Seriously,

Just to follow up…Let me give you a run down of arcadia TC series since 1994.

1994 – Arcadia
1995 – Arcadia
1996 – TC
1997 – Arcadia
1998 – Arcadia
1999 – Arcadia
2000 – Series off
2001 – TC
2002 – Arcadia
2003 – Arcadia
2004 – Arcadia
2005 – Series off
2006 – Series off
2007 – Series off
2008 – Series off
2009 – Tie

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Cathedral is going to destroy So. Pasadena and could beat So. Pas and Alhambra in the same day. The Phantoms are huge and alot of depth this coming year. With 6’3 Sophmore QB Haden Reddig leading the Phantom attack they will be very good.

Football Fan.

I agree with you 100% on Cathedral destroying S. Pas and Alhambra. You can add on to your list Arroyo, West Covina, Cantwell, Don Bosco and Maranatha. “Under the Radar Arcadia” destroyed these team without some of their top players. As always St. Francis and Monrovia will bring their “A” games. I predict no blow-out and Arcadia will give each of these a battle. Their young but talented and have some kids they will make a big impact this year and next.

!stang!
Muir always has one or two standout players both sides of the ball but they better work on their defense. I think they will allow too many points this year from what I seen. I don’t think they have the weapon of previous seasons.

I’m not worried about the defense they return 7 guys who started in the charter oak game. They have 3 key guys returning. Kevon S. Dennis and #14 fb/lb. These 3 kids played big in charter oak game. Kevon int dennis rufus. Dennis stripped the qb late in the game. #14 had a couple big tackles and a td. The question is can they replace Jarron williams at #b

Pre-Season Polls

1. Monrovia- On the heels of Bueno and Co. the Wildcats should run amuck in the RIo Hondo League. There are several outstanding players that will make a contribution in his own way this season. The biggest step up is going to be on the defensive end. This years Cats have the potential to erase the scoreboard early and keep it erased throughout the quarters. Skill players are in abundance and on offense they will be raining receivers this season. Sophomore QB George Frazier will be handling a lot of snaps this year as a second unit QB and his arsenal will consist of several of his sophomore teamates. The names that will come out of this seasons teams will stick around for a few more years. The underclassmen are very very skilled and I think Maddox knows it. Names to look for this season: Derrick Johnson RB/LB Ellis McCarthy OT/DT Jay Henderson WR/S Derrin Jenkins WR/CB Charlie Cimmerusti SpecT/S Isayah Daniels OL/DL Kenny Machi OL/DL John Adams DL Christian Blanco RB/LB Luke Williams WR/S Evan Sanchez LB Dean Bisterfeldt OL/LB
New Comers: George Frazier FS/QB Michael Harris RB/Corner Anthony Kraft WR/S Marquise Bias RB/S Mason Bryant WR/K There are several other members of this team that will make an impact once the season gets started, but for right now these are the names that stick out in my mind.

2 or 3 Muir or St. Francis? Theres always going to be that question mark about these two teams until they settle that on the field someday. I think that given this year I will give the nod to Muir strickly because of what potential they have entering into this season. They could beat any team in the area on any given night and this year they will have their chance to prove that especially against BA. St. Francis is not as talented in all of the skill positions but may possess a couple of the areas best in a couple of key positions. They will be tested again this year by 3 of the top 4 Pacific league teams in the early season.

4. Cresenta Valley It becomes more and more difficult to measure any kind of scope from this number on down. Each team posses promise in very limited areas in the overall picture. I could say Pasadena and my be right on target, if they can get that Pacific league monkey off their back, right now I will make my prediction of saying Cresenta Valley, they seem to have the most coming back and have played the most competitive of all the pacific league teams aside from Muir in 2009.

5. Pasadena : Lots of growing pains, but the potential is there to make a turnaround. The only team that can beat Pasadena is Pasadena in the pacific league. Arguably they could take the crown if they every come to their senses and realize that they actually have the talent to do so. Coaching is the missing variable in their program.

6 San Gabriel: As little that is known about San Gabriel this season, they always field a somewhat descent team year after year. This will be a year for them to prove they really belong on the top ten list by playing a more challenging preseason schedule. Keep your eyes open in the Muir Game It will be a very interesting dynamic.

7. Maranatha: I know every year little is said about the small schools in the area but as of late they seem to be gaining more and more momentum in the 11 man leagues. Sometimes they are just a few Bad Boys away from making a real statement.

8. Arcadia: Sorry Apache fans, No where near the caliber of teams as of of late. I hope that you dont become the next victim of the demographic bug thats been sweeping across the San Gabriel Valley. Looks like you guys have your sights set on a 4-5 player team and thats not going to get the job done in the Pacific league. There is alway promist that more kids will step up and prove everyone wrong, but being consistant is going to come with more gritty pure atheletes.

9. San Marino: Just my gut tells me that Mooney didn’t step into his new office without thinking this thing through. This will be his opportunity to make an impression on the coaching elites in the area and a good win could go a long way for San Marino. Watch Out Muir If you see a big white guy talking to a couple of atheletic guys around Lincoln Blvd. and they end up with Blue and White jerseys on. Mooney has come to your town.

10. La Canada: This is probably on paper the best of the rest in the RHL. Coach Yoder has a bond with these guys as well as an advantage being able to coach them through most of their younger years. This may be the surprist team in the area. La Canada’s Defense is always a bit under rated. If they can put together some offense this year Watch Out!

Not to be outdone is our once known true year after year comppettitors TC!… My prediction is that they will make a quick recovery witin the next 2-3 seasons and gain back their credibility and pride. I’ m more than sure Fans like GA will see that happens more sooner than later.

For right now this is my pre-season polls… I know I’m going to get some major eggs thrown at me but I’m Prepared(:

O-cat

Nice recap of who is who on the Cats. I’m sticking with my prediction that we will see a more intelligent and precise offensive attack this year from Monrovia. You could feel the discust and frustration in the air during last years San Marino game- no way Maddox and crew are NOT going to respond to that dreary, unimaginative, stubborn and ineffective play calling and offensive scheme which hindered the Cats that night. Yeah, give the Titans some credit, but it was more of M-town just spinning their wheels. Bueno is really going to hurt some defenses this year…optioning on the DE and flinging high percentage throws from a mobile pass/run set – with 15 years of varsity experience, you know his decision making is not a worry.
I am not going to expound on predictions this early – because I know 50% of what I knew last year. (Some would say that is 50% of nothing)
San Marino could surprise and I ‘m glad to hear some faith in So Pas exists. Blair- who knows? TC needs to make a decent showing and I think they will.
I will get in the swing by September.

Football Fan, remain just a fan. Before you out think yourself. West Cov. is good but they are very, very beatable, so is Cathedral. Save your bets for some other sport.

There is noway in hell even on Monrovia’s good day that they can stay let alone beat Cathedral. The Phantoms would destroy Monrovia with no problems whatsoever. The same goes for West Covina even Arcadia would beat Monrovia with no problem. Just stating the facts .

Keep drinking the Haterade Football Fan. Have a Beer on me. Even Minus One of the best backs in the state we Monrovia would still handle their business.

Here We Go Again….Well at least you have Arcadia on the list. We will see what happens in week 2 at Monrovia hopefully in the new stadium. We have a mutual game with South Hills/West Covina. I have a good feeling you will be eating more than just your words after it is all said and done. You are so uniformed… You need to go to Max Prep and look at who’s who…. then make your lost assumtions.

Football fan. What exactly are the facts that you are stating? The fact that you’re talking out of your @ss?

Whatever happened to Cody Keith, Maranatha’s Rent-A-QB option from last season? did he go to a college to play ball somewhere?

To New York Crespi came down from D1 to D10 in Our Division. Gardena Serra and Harvard Westlake came down from D3 to D10. Take those 3 school’s away and Cathedral would have at least 4 CIF Championships. Cathedral Lost to Serra two year’s ago by 1 point in overtime. Last year We were tied with Serra 7-7 going into the 4th Qtr. Have You sen all the Athlete’s that Serra has,how many School’s can stay close to them but Cathedral did. Cathedral is now going up to D3 in the Mission League with Serra,Harvard Westlake,Chaminade,St. Francis and St. Paul. So You still think Monrovia can compete in that Division. Also, Serra is the defending football Champ and is in Our League. To Mustang Muir I think Muir has better Athlete’s and should beat San Gabriel. I think San Gabriel lost to many players from last season and they were tuff and never gave up. The lost of Coach Jones is also big. good luck to both teams.

NY, muir strenght is its DB’s , so SG plays into muirs skill. If you look at the last 5 playoff lost muir couldn’t stop the run. I can’t remember a team the pased for more then 150 with thexpectation of oaks christian and venice. Until muir slow down teams running team in the playoffs. Muir we not win a championship. But with that aid they can out score teams to force them to throw earlier in te game. On another note muir vs catheral august 27 at muir! ( Game style scrimmage). Should be interesting!

Football Fan:
My Guess is that Cathedral would decline the offer and
defer to rematch of South Pas to even the score.

I work with a couple Cathedral parents and word is the coaching staff is not much appreciated by the very large and vocal alum following the Phantoms have.

Their roster this year apparently has imbalanced talent, from outright studs to so-so, middle of the road ball players capable of getting it done but not with any overpowering domination. This is the word I ‘ve been hearing anyway…

I will catch one of their early games along with a La Mirada game…and you know I gotta get down to Buena Park…. and San Marino and Lincoln Ave, M-town, La Salle, maybe even North Field.

It really doesn’t matter.

Bishop Amat is going to destroy you all…

I heard that Coach Smith at South Pas is no longer the coach and is one of the reasons why South Pas is playing Cathedral. Can anyone confirm this?

Give Props to So. Pas for Scheduling Cathedral. I think though they should have kept Mark Keppel because Cathedral will defeat So. Pas soundly. I know coach pearson at Cathedral and he will not run up the score. Good Luck to both teams.

And Miguel, you need a new picture bro! lol

Prop’s to So. Pas for playing Cathedral anyway. I sure Coach pearson of Cathedral will not run up the score. His wife is a teacher at so. Pas. Good luck to both teams.

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