wassup honkey, little bitch......DRHS licks balls...you fools havent done jack since day one....when haynes leaves your team this spring, you will get ran by every team on the schedule...can you say 0-10?....sorry ass mofo's....

Well i tell you what. If its true what Aram said about Jerry Persons being at the top of the list for replacements, then DB will most certainly be OK!

There is nothing wrong with basketball. But I do agree with 3 sport athlete, that today's basketball coaches discourage their players from doing other sports. However, I must say football coaches do it as well. We need to go back to the days, when high athletes were encouraged to play as many different sports as possible. I can see if your a Lebron James or a Reggie Bush, then you should stick to one sport. However most of these kids are just like the people who blog on this site: average athletes who were never going to make it professionally. For this type of athlete, they should be encouraged to enjoy the high school experience of playing multiple sports. As I tell the high school kids I teach and coach: You only get one shot at high school, so you should have fun and make the most of it. I wish all high school coaches had this same pattern of thinking.

The way basketball has exploded...now basketball coaches get to have their players "practice/play" basketball all year long. That doesn't make them better basketball players that just gives the basketball coach more influence on campus and with the players "minds"! It was never like this before. Let your body develop playing multiple sports. Learning from multiple coaching perspectives. And hanging out with different players from different sports. Ever notice the difference between football players, soccer players and wrestlers? They "THINK and ACT" differently. It's a refreshing perspective! Maybe you excel at one sport but have to work hard at another. That's real...that's LIFE!!! Maybe you are the star in one sport but a cheerleader and last minute sub in another. That builds CHARACTER!!!And that's lost with year round "sports" specific training.

Jackie Robinson played all three sports. In fact J.D. Drew and Iverson were three sport athletes phemons. Look at the shooting percentages of HS, college and professional basketball players they are horrible! Most are single skill players..."specialist". The one thing that ALL pro coaches and GMs complain about is basketball players lack fundamentals. Yet basketball coaches now "emphasize" year round basketball.It's not about instruction as much as it is about control. It's pretty ridiculous when you see the end product on the court. Very few can dribble, shoot and pivot with consistancy that reflects year round play. Their shots have poor form, only two players can bring the ball up and they "get frazzled" when they they play against any team with great fundamentals.
Basketball coaches need to get a grip.

Why do basketball coaches always think they can mess with football? Why don't basketball players realize that their frames (tall and athletic) will go further to get a football scholarship than to get an almost impossible basketball scholarship?

DB should be okay since Withers, the basketball coach, is gone. He told many of his basketball players not to play football, if they wanted any chance of starting on the basketball team. If you look at the decline of DB football, it starts so after Withers got there.

Randy...compa I wasn't going to give you up...but I knew.....don't tell Bluorca, lol.

Love the barbs because they were all in fun. That was the best screen name yet!

Good luck with #62. See you next year in the stands. Bring a Medina! lol

so, its the "persons project" for now huh? well, so be it......i just hope they pull the trigger and get things rollings again asap. I liked Saiz, I liked Cuccia, "AH HELL Wyatt", i just hope whoever gets the reigns is given time to work out his own kinks and get this train rollin' again!.....hey Aram, did you ever figure out i was the whale hunter? It shouldn't have been that hard, just look at all the typos....

Ah ha! The Aram speculation could be onto something.

Ok people here it is. I'm putting it out there for you. The DB job is Jerry Persons' if he wants it. The offer has been made to the former Walnut coach and the ball is in his court. Rumor has it he is trying to get together his old staff. This could put some real HEAT in the DB/WHS rivalry. The Sierra League is a tough one though. WHS took a beating under Person in the Baseline League.

Randy and #62 I feel your pain. Cuccia bailed out DB when no one else wanted that job. You're right Cuccia was old school. Best advice I can give #62 is honor your Coach Cuccia with a break out effort next year. Prove to the AD that he pulled the trigger too early. That is really a shame that old school coahes don't get the respect and resources they need to succeed. Maybe Caoch Monger's on the way. At least that's the skuttle.

Aram,

I play football at DBHS my pa wrote earlier. You dont know what the hell we went through. Our coaches really do care about all of us, it was all of our last promise to Coach Cuccia was: NO MATTER WHAT WE WONT QUIT, AND WE'LL ONLY WORK TO BETTER OURSELVES IN THE OFFSEASON.

In the 2005 season, we could have done it, should have done it and would have done it. Our QB (who I later found out in weight lifting) has a nasty habbit of blaming others and discouraging others so he comes out on top.

This year it was a mental breakdown as far as I saw on the sidelines. We did everything well, running, passing, reverses, and options. I don't know what happened though. I felt pride to be a second generation down on the field, and I know the other (senior) second generations felt more pride. The kicker was that; we did fine but little mistakes happened every once and a while. Thats expected though.

Coach Cuccia did everything he could for us. We had longer practices, harder drills, and more yelling. Everything, and anything to get all of us as sophomores rallied up to practice with the seniors and juniors. Coach was looking forward to the 2007 year. You could see it in his eyes when he told us. I respect coach, he did all he could do with our small team. Our assistant coaches were the best I've ever seen.

WE SWORE NO NEVER LET COACH DOWN AND FOR YOU TO SAY (and I qoute),
"I can't wait to see who the Brahmas hire as the program continues its fall from grace.".
That is unfair to our coaches. We WILL make a comeback this next season.
-#62

First off let me say that this will be long. This subject has just hit to close to home. I can't believe Aram gave the subject some ink. But I'm glad he gave Coach Cuccia the chance to give us his version.

I couldn't believe the news when I heard it. I was shocked, saddened, blown away by the firing. My son is a sophomore at DBHS. He plays JV, and I am grateful that he has had the experience of playing in Coach Cuccia's program. Coach Cuccia was old school. He is a teacher of the game. He is a damn fine leader. And he had solid assistants trying to weave it all together, I went to 3-4 practices a week during summer, and one or two a week during the year. I saw him light up when he had to, and I saw him trying to reach out and grab every bit of talent he could out of those kids. Yes, he had a different scheme. And yes i heard grumblings in the stands when things were getting bumpy. But if you've been around the game, then you know that man was dong the best he could, with the tools he had.

When Cuccia took over last year he guided us to a 3-1-1 preason schedule. Things were looking pretty damn good. Then the reality of how brutal the Sierra League just derailed us. We lost those final 5 games of the year. We came into this year with only something like 11 seniors, maybe 6 returning senior starters. We had under 30 total juniors and seniors. WE WERE GONNA HAVE PROBLEMS THIS YEAR. We didn't have strong numbers coming back. Why??? Two big reasons I think that have hurt us are: 1) Diamond Ranch opening and drawing some kids that way. 2) we're changing demographically, and that's ok. But the thing is, Asian kids don't statistically speaking "play football". Those factors are depleting the draw of athletes we get. I spoke to the AD during the year about this. I asked him if we might be get bumped down into another league and/or division. He said that wouldn't happen for at least a couple of years. We missed our window to drop down into another league, football has seen the biggest drop, but we still do ok in most of the other sports so those who call the shots won't let us drop down yet. Its tough up here in the Inland division, in the Sierra League.

We certainly had our day in the sun. DBHS kicked ass around here back in the day. Even during Saiz's run, we made the playoffs but lost to Mission Viejo two years in a row in 2001 and 2002. Thats nothing to be ashamed of. One of those losses was only 28-14. I think Coach Saiz may have been victim to a quick hook too though. Philosophical differences will get you fired everytime if you aren't cranking out the wins.

Did you know that between 1994 through 2000, either DBHS or Ayala made it to the Finals of Div II. Talk about consistently running the table. DBHS walked away with 3 CIF titles during that run, AHS---zero, thats the difference, they will always be our little brothers. That was during Coach Roche's second stint here. His first one started off 2-8 back in '82, with NO SENIORS. Then in '83 Ganesha (our rivals) beat us in the finals 14-9. In '84 we went 14-0 undefeated CHAMPS! And in '85 we went 13-1 losing to C.O. in the finals (damn i hate to remember that one). You cannot deny Roche's ability to motivate and get those kids to execute and another level. He's a friggin remarkable high school football coach. My hat is off to him.

During this time that we supposedly dropped off the football planet, i ask you this----what has Diamond Ranch, Chino Hills, Damien done to secure their place as supreme ass kickers these days? How about---NOTHING. They dont finish like we used to. They dont run the table like we once did.

Cuccia got screwed, he should have been given at least one more year at the helm. He has some potential with these 10th and 11th graders. I get sick when i think about that. We shouldn't be running through head coaches faster than Diamond Ranch does. The nucleus is still there for us though. The fight still must go on. I want to say THANK YOU COACH CUCCIA. Thank you, for helping guide my son to learn life lessons through football. He's probably not gonna play college ball. But he will remember the discipline, the integrity, the feeling of family you helped bring along. Best of luck to you sir, wherever you coach at next!

2 years ago the brahmas could have chosen Orange hs coach Greg Gibson as the head coach. Instead they went in house and chose Cuccia. Gibson now will be the new head coach at San Juan Hills. Big mistake for not taking Gibson who turned around the Orange hs football program.

2 years ago the brahmas could have chosen Orange hs coach Greg Gibson as the head coach. Instead they went in house and chose Cuccia. Gibson now will be the new head coach at San Juan Hills. Big mistake for not taking Gibson who turned around the Orange hs football program.

Didn't Cuccia bail DB out when no one else wanted the job? That's what I remember reading when he was hired. Cuccia was a former head coach and happy assistant coach who was brought back to save the dysfunction that was DB football. And this is the thanks Cuccia gets. Go figure.

Maybe if Verti does come to Diamond Bar he'll win a Championship like DiFiori won at La Salle after leaving Bishop Amat!

I have to agree with New York. The talent is still there..just walk around and look at the basketball , and track teams...there is plenty of talent there and would have more if the coaching situations there ever stabilized.

I know a "young and ambitious" coach with "potential", a year as a head "coach" and college playing "experience" that I'd love to help get the Diamond Bar job !:?)

NY,

Some people are going to say that former coach Terry Roche saw the writing on the wall and left at just the right time. I think a lot of the problem is that Diamond Ranch, Ayala and Chino Hills high schools opened. There's a lot of talent in that area, but until it all goes to the same school, there won't be any juggernaut. Also, remember, that Amat used to get some kids from that area.

How has this program fallen from the prominence it had when it was winning D-3 and D-2 titles not that long ago.

Do principals or AD's ever give the true reason why a coach is let go? DB has been in shambles since
what's his name left for Chino Hills. DB will be back in a few years. They have too many athletics in that area to be down forever.

Oh yeah, I found it funny that you will mention DB, but when the coach at LP(McMillon) got let go a year ago, you said nothing.