FRED ROBLEDO

Fred Robledo is the Prep Sports Editor for the San Gabriel Valley Tribune. E-mail me your opinions, story ideas or tips to fred.robledo@sgvn.com.

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In this week's Just Tribbin, I'm Tribbin out on the pollsters who put together the Mid-Valley Division rankings. These aren't mythical rankings like ours, CIF rankings are actually used to seed teams and put playoff brackets together. Monrovia at No. 3? Are you kidding me. Azusa at 4? No way. No South El Monte or Rosemead in the top five? Ridiculous.


CIF's Mid-Valley Rankings: 1. San Dimas (5-0), 2. Cerritos Valley Christian (5-1), 3. Monrovia (3-2), 4. Azusa (5-1), 5. San Marino (5-0), 6. South El Monte (3-2), 7. Northview (3-2), 8. Rosemead (3-2), 9. Paraclete (3-3), 10. Pomona (4-1).

Robledo's Mid-Valley rankings: 1. San Dimas (5-0), 2. Cerritos Valley Christian (3-1), 3. Rosemead (3-2), 4. San Marino (5-0), 5. South El Monte (3-2), 6. Paraclete (3-3), 7. Northview (3-2), 8. Monrovia (3-2), 9. Azusa (5-1), 10. Pomona (4-1).

Comments

codude,
You must be kidding. This happened not more that 3-4 years ago. Maybe I am mistaken about the 2 games.I think that was when Farrar had second thoughts and cancelled the second game . I am sure alot of people wished we would have played each other this year. Because afterall to be the best you must beat the best. Then we could put to rest all this about who is number one. Good luck the rest of the season and maybe we will see a game between AMAT and CO in the future .

This goes out to all of you South Hills fans...your team is over rated. As always, your line is the only difference maker....you poke fun of the mid valley division teams...but the bottom line is....the only thing you have always had going was your line defensive and offensive line...a lot of teams are either much better or simply better than your team at any other position....ask your coaches to take average players and make them great and to make great players excellent....they cant...they are used to coaching players who have everything handed to them...players who have access to special trainers, camps, programs...etc...need I say more? Like I said earlier, the only thing you have is size on the line...if the were evened out...then your butts would be getting blown out by teams like San Dimas and South El Monte. Period.

WOW wILLIAMS AND pERI WHAT A PAIR. wILLIAMS SACK IN THE ENDZONE AND KEY TACKLE ON 4TH DOWN AND 4. GREAT HIT FOR 4TH DOWN STOP, PERI ON OFFENCE AND GREAT STOPS ON D. LOOK ALL VALLEY.1ST TEAM. WILSON NEXT ,HANG ON.

Amat 73
Gee you must be a senior citizen. I never heard the story, but I believe you. Sorry for the transgresion. What year was that? wish we had a matchup this . Oh the game of the year it would be.
Sail on!

codude,
How soon they forget. Don't you remember when CO came over to AMAT and burned CO on our field with gas or diesel . You're right about awaking the sleeping giant because we then proceeded to give CO a mighty whipping 2 years in a row.

Hey Just a Thought,
There must be something wrong with your process. Put them in same league? Claremont would leave town, the rest would have bad dreams. Who would Glendora and Dranch have cry about?

we will beat azusa . . .thats all i have to say. . . g-stone

Funny how these fools critizing one's grammar can't even form an error-free sentence themselves. Most importantly, even a South Hills education can't help the ignorance of these kids...how sad. This coming from a Cal Poly Pomona student from Duarte High.

Hey South Hills fan/student. Re-leaguing is coming up, why don't you rally your school to get in a bigger, stronger league! Say South Hills, Glendora, Bonita, Claremont, Charter Oak, Damien! You should have no trouble dominating! However, it won't happen because your school would fight it all the way!

SO SOME IDIOTS BURNED DONUTS ON CHARGER FOOTBALL FIELD LAST NIGHT> WOW IDIOTS NEVER LEARN NOT TO AROUSE A SLEEPING GIANT> LAST YEAR THE DAY BEFORE THE D RANCH GAME SOME SUPER LOUD MOUTHS HARRASSED CO VARSITY PRACTICE BY FAST DRIVING Guess what 48 TO 7 AT RANCHO. I HOPE DR HAD NOYHING TO WITH DRIVING CARS ON FIELD.

OLD AREA COACH;

Let me buy you a cup of coffee! That's the most positive post of read here!

Keep them coming!

Chingon, our arguments shouldn't be about our league. You see for youself, how the Montview league has no respect. You and I know watching our kids playing football is the greatest thing ever, and then to see this negative garbage! NO RESPETO!

I like your spirit Aztec Pride. As the rest of the bloggers claim you guys our on top of the loser league. Non the less, enjoy it while you can. The 24th we are coming to claim the top spot. Yes you heard it here first The Falcons will be on top of the heap. We will beat the Aztecs 'cause we our This Leagues Top Losers. There is lots of pride in our league.

GO FALCONS...

There must be alot of honor in a division 1 school beating up on a division 7 school. Wow, you guys are bad to the bone. I'm impressed. Now go tell your wife how bad you are.

GO FALCONS....

Ex-Falcon-while many SH players may not play in college, they may go to college. spelling counts. what is pron?

Get off the internet at after midnight. Turn of the pron/sgv tribune blog and go to sleep. Loser

Bad english are not the truth remands that south hills is overrated. Your a kid that could not play after high school. dont worry your proably good as those great players on your team. Obama has nothing to do with this I never bring up obama.All you do is say the same thing over and over. I could care less how you vote for. Zero kids on that south hills team will play football after high school there just not that good. I have misspelling word with bad grammer for a very long time. That want stop me blogging. oh well kiss my a$$. The point remainsds the same.

Well i made this point in another blog topic eariler. But i have seen many of the teams in the MID-Valley...and the truth is these teams and leagues were realigned for this reason. TO GIVE ALL THE SCHOOLS A EQUAL PLAYING FIELD!!! Now some can not seem to understand that. Azusa , Rosemead, South EL Monte, San Dimas, Northview, Cerritos Valley, Workman, these schools are all roughly the same size and have the same amount of talent except and few schools here in there get a few more players. I have seen schools like San Dimas have to PLay Oaks Christian!! Now is that FAIR?? I dont think so. Or teams traveling 3 hours to play a game. The CIF got it right. Give all the schools that compete a chance to play on a level field. I mean thats why there are Divisions. Imagine a IA college team like USC playing NAIA APU just cause there were close. That is stupid and unfair cause of the size and talent pool. Just like it is to ask San Dimas to play Oaks Christian.

But this is my take on the MID VALLEY>>>

1.San Dimas is legit...best team in MID-VALLEY..good oline and Dline. Barron is nice..but i like Joseph he is a game Changer.But there romp in the MID-Valley wont be easy..I have seem most teams in this divison play. Rosemead and SELM.from the MVL Have great offense. Rosemead has a good defense as well. SELM needs to sure up the D to make noise. But if that QB#11 and WR #7 get it going no DB in the Mid Valley can guard him one on one.Azusa and Workman from the Montview and yes Workman...they have a good running game and well keep games close and there defense is actually the best in the league. Azusa has a good QB that makes big plays for them and there deeper than most think. Duarte has a lack of depth that i think will hurt them in the end. From the VVL Northview has a great defense but there offense has yet to show what it can do. I seen them in Passing league and there best players were there Wide-outs..But yet they run more than pass. There coach needs to let his playmakers loose. And Baldwin Park has a great D. like always but injuries to the QB have cost them. I have yet to see the OLY> teams but i have seen C.Valley and Parclete that last 2 years so i know they will be tough. I think the Mid-Valley will be a great Play-off. Lots of evenly matched teams. There will not be big blow-outs. There will be good football through out. As a fan of the lil--guys i cant wait to see this one play out...

lol @ all the grammatical error's and misspelled words coming from the educated internet racists. Good job defending your schools honor.

Dear Ex Falcon,
you might literally be the most ignorant fool I have ever seen on here. You think everything that comes out of Monrovia or Duarte flies, besides the bullets and gang signs. You are definitely a product of your enviornment. Thank God for a South Hills education, so I can actually speak in proper english and spell.

Dawg Pound-
that rant rocked, dude. I can picture the "ex-Falcon" guy looking like the late Isaac Hayes...old, dark, bald and a beard and ANGRY at the world. If you don't vote for Obama, you must be a racist. But seriously, Hayes, I mean ex-Falcon, learn english and proper grammar so you don't continually come off as an ignorant gangstah.

By the way let's see do I want to play for Charter Oak better yet they should be playing for us or for your school? Let's think about this nevermind no need to that's a no brainer. I'm most importantly obviously from your posts going to get a better education playing someplace else like Charter Oak or better yet for us than be a Falcon proven by your inability to articulate yourself. Go use a dictionary and look up the word then get back to me. Later bro!

I may be young but at least I'm not a dummy like you. You obviously failed
English genius and should purchase Hook on Phonics now. Hurry before you become completely illiterate. The name Ex-Falcon to me sounds like a adjective to desribe the word bitter and no life. Seriously go back and read what you typed. There are syntax and grammatical errors everywhere in your two posts. You are an idiot. I stand behind my comments. We beat Duarte bad just like the Mid-Valley Division bad. I promise you after playing Duarte there is no one on either side of the ball that could start for us. Enough with you dropout. Go get your G.E.D., get a job, so you do not invade my business when I wasn't even talking to you and before you say this is a free country it's not my parents pay taxes for you everyday!

only thing that makes south hills even close to a good teams in there lineman. besides that adverage at best. That come with having a large student body.

Dawg Pound,
How old are you? You need to grow up. Charter Oak is full of Monrovia and duarte kids. There are kids In this division that could start in any school in the valley easy. Ease up big dawg you sound stupid.

How sweet it was to watch all the fat, drunk, LA Dodgers fans get on the bus back to Tijuana with their husbands too. Gotta love Furcal's three errors and the five seconds Fox showed him picking his nose better than he did ground balls. Nice hitting Kent, you red neck. Sorry to all of you, especially that biased hack who does hs sports. LA teams just don't crack it, besides USC! Lakers, UCLA and the Dodgers just aren't good enough. Deal with it.
Adios.

If anyone seriously thinks Azusa can compete with San Dimas that's absurd. And to compare South Hills and Azusa players is even more ridiculous. Please just go play your Varsity a.k.a. J.V. Mid-Valley Division football and leave the real football for us big boys. I mean seriously is anyone from San Dimas going to be proud of their C.I.F. Championship when your playing teams like Monrovia and San Marino in the Semifinals and Finals. South El Monte and Pomona are ranked in your top ten. Wow! Your division is embarrassing and everyone would agree there would be an * next to your title. I imagine if South Hills played any of those teams ranked including San Dimas the score would be A LOT to a little. Good night now! Go Huskies!

To all of the Aztecs reading this, don't worry about all the things that these people are putting down about the players from Azusa not being able to make a scout team on SH or CO. You guys take what you are good at and use it to your advantage. Same as every team in the Southern Section. And I know for a fact that some of the kids that play or played for Azusa would be able to out work and out hustle kids from SH. I personally know a kid from Azusa that now plays for APU and he is getting after it everyday in practice and working hard. So, Aztecs finish the season right and show thenm what you can do in the playoffs!

Why can't teams just enjoy a little success. By the way, CIF doesn't make the rankings. Traditionally a panel of coaches will come to a consensus. Is it correct, not always. A lot has to do with winning games on the field. That's regardless of who they play. We all know SC is one of the top teams in the country, but they, in the eyes of some, play a weak schedule this season. Should they be penalized for that or rewarded for beating the teams they have in front of them? Obviously to many of us in the valley some of these teams aren't the strongest, but if they are playing competition similar to their school why should they be rejected for winning. Take Azusa for instance, now I am not an Azusa fan particularly, but I did grow up relatively close to Azusa and I can't remember them being ranked this high or starting the season 5-1. Congratulations to Azusa & Coach Scherf! When was the last time Pomona was ranked? When was the last time San Dimas was #1 in their division? 1991 with Matt Harding?

On a side note, I get tired of reading about all of the "Powers" in the valley. Who cares if these kids would start at South Hills. Their school isn't South Hills, Bishop Amat, Glendora, Charter Oak, and the list goes on. They are having a great season and don't need somebody from a bigger, and more football strong school to chime in. If you want to chime in let's go to the topic of transfers into say Azusa for football v. South Hills, Bishop Amat, Charter Oak, etc. That's a big reason some of these "Weaker" schools aren't as successfull. Most of you will go into the rhetoric about kids wanting to come play for us, tradition, etc. True in some instances, but "Undue Influence" in others. Harsh criticism, but I don't have the wool over my eyes, I know what goes on. How are these "Weaker" schools supposed to create a tradtition if the same schools take all of the athletes! Let them have their moment in the sun, they've earned it to this point.

im here in defense for azusa duarte and all the other montview teams... no one cares what you guys think?!? why does it matter if they could start on any of those teams?!? i would hope you guys have better team you only get about 5000 more kids than all the montview teams... And there is plenty of kids who could start for schools at co and sh... This year adrian gatea qb he is better than both of the qbs at sh and co jordan canada is proving he's the real deal Steven Barrientos hard worker he would get pt... desmond Hayes so talented and athletic John ochoa Smartest kid in the montview ive seen in a while Joseph herrera a 6ft 195 sophmore ryan gomez hard runner will run any lb over in the league steven arceo 6'2 180 fast strong athleitc daniel limon was leading the southern section with most catches at one point...
last year chriss harris marco negerte abraham gama austin goldsmith robert cruz daruis reese richie gurrola...
2 years ago mike harris
brandon lee jermaine thomas gabriel ochoa mark cendejas n i have plenty more so dont say that none of these boys could start...

Aztec Pride, COme On , and Baller. Come on boys, to say someone is for real is to say they could play at a school like Charter Oak or South Hills. There isn't an Aztec player who could be on the scout team at those school. Azusa might be better but they suck. Sorry, they will lose to Duarte, and maybe Workman and 1st round of the playoffs. WHy do you think Shuster left for greener pastures? He knew no Montview league will ever win a playoff game and the League Title is a joke. Any other league J.V. team would smash them.

"Fred, I've been in this valley for 39 yrs and this might be the weakest division I have ever seen. Crown SD now.- YUCK "


Dumbest comment of all time. Why would you say to crown SD? lol You play the game for a reason. Look at the Patriots last year for example. Same concept the only difference is that this is HS football.

AZTEC PRIDE

Must I mention it again Azusa SUCKS they have beat teams with a combined record of 4 and 23 and yes they will win again this week against another 0 and 6 team in Gladstone bringing the combined record of the teams they beat to 4 and 29 or 30 depending on how you look at it.

That is a 13% winning average! WOW. Anybody that has ever dealt with CIF knows they are a screwed up organization so yes in this case:
All is right in THE world. A screwed up organization picks a weak team to be ranked 4th. Azusa could not play with Rosemead, Northview, SEM, or Pomona.

It is going to be bad when they win (if they can get by Duarte) their league and get beat by a third place team from another league. I predict it now 10/15/08 at 7:40 PM Azusa is a 1 and done in the playoffs this year no matter where they finish in league.

why no love for azusa or monrovia fred?? and south el monte is garbage if they meet azusa or monrovia in the playoffs thier season will be over...duarte will smash all of them howeverbut still i understand why duarte is not up there but we will be... But back to the point south el monte gives uo way too many points fred come on use your head... defense wins ball games!

here is how you should have it
1.san dimas-untouchable right now
2.Rosmead-very athletic and has good size
3.San Marino-only other undeafeated team in mid val.
4.monrovia-good d!
5.Azusa-tough D... qb is legit
6.Northview-Dont forget about them sd
7.Pomona-Wow very athletic
8.cerritos valley chr.- strong team smart coach
9.south el monte-Scores alot of points!
10.Paraclete-best 500 team in mid valley

but come on fred show some love to monrovia and azusa they deserve it.

I've been wondering the samething myself Fred... Who or what makes up these rankings. There is no love for the 'Mead!

!!!FEAR THE MEAD!!! !!!WAR PANTHERS!!!

Please insert the word (the)in between with __ world.LOL...

Time to go watch the DODGERS!

Valley Christian over rosemead??????? Why is that? Calpreps project matchup has rosemead favorited 40-14 against valley christian.

FRED!!! (YES WAY)!!!

THAT'S RIGHT YOU READ IT!

AZUSA, AZUSA, AZUSA,

ALL IS RIGHT WITH WORLD!

HEY YUCKY, COME OUT AND SEE A GAME, AND SEE WHAT THERE TALKING ABOUT!

AZUSA, AZTEC PRIDE!!!

A good trib would name Charter Oad , Diamond Ranch game of the week. Bring em on and sort them out and play ball. Winner take all, excuse me Bonita you could be the joker in the deck in final week. Predict Charter Oak 35 Dranch 13.

Fred, I've been in this valley for 39 yrs and this might be the weakest division I have ever seen. Crown SD now.

Well,
Based on the performance of the listed teams, you gotta think the CIF Championship is San Dimas' if they keep playing the way they've play so far. Azusa, Paraclete, and Rosemead all have a reasonable chance while South El Monte, Cerritos Valley Christian, and Northview will likely all fall a little short. I don't know much about San Marino but they clearly have a great record so far...

Yeah, I was looking at that, they've only lost to teams with winning records.
Lost to (3-2) Serrano, 35-28
Lost to (3-2) Burroughs, 26-20
Lost to (3-1-1) Eastside, 35-14

Fred,
Do you know who Paraclete has lost to this season?

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