These transfer rules are in place for a reason. I have no idea why people feel sorry for kids like Booth and the Canadas who are blatantly violating these rules that everyone else has to follow. That “the rules don’t apply to me” mentality is EXACTLY the problem with today’s athletes.

And the sad thing is…in the Booth case anyway…it’s all the stupid parents’ fault. I know Brock, he’s anice kid. But his arrogant father has single handedly destroyed his son’s football career by shopping him all over the SGV. (LA, SH, Amat). Congrats Dad…hope you are happy with the result. When are parents going to realize the negative effects of their actions on their kids???

Wait a minute, I thought Booth was cleared already? So this denial comes after South Hills challenges it. South Hills has lived on transfers forever and they are doing this…I find it funny but sad.

Never was a fan of kids transferring schools except for bonafide, educational purposes. I hope that’s the case here. Transferring schools to play for a so-called “better school or program” is not what champions are made of. The same goes for coaching – development and work with what you got.

I am absolutely confident that no matter what school a kid goes to, his/her talent will be recognized – maybe a little later, but it will be recognized.

Laurence Todd
President
http://www.pasadenasportshalloffame.org

jcaz,

it’s already been around, ‘member jake shirley and both canada’s — it’s about time south hills starts challenging — northview had 2 of south hills seniors START on the varsity baseball team why weren’t they ineligible??

First of all, Brock’s parents are both extremely nice and want what’s best for their son! The start of his freshman year at LA everything was fine, but admin and others started acting stupid, Mr. Booth decides to take Brock to SH, which he had all the right to do according to CIF rules. Now, at SH Mr. Booth didn’t expect Brock to start over Deen, but his Jr season he should have definitely started. He didn’t though, and why? The coaches go beg Shirley to play and cover up a bunch of Shirley’s retarded actions that occur amongst the team and in the locker room so he stays eligible. How retarded is that? Well, very retarded, so Mr. Booth decides to take Brock to AMAT, which SH should’ve never challenged, because of their childish actions the year prior. Brock should be made eligible at AMAT! It’s not his fault, nor his parents fault that the SH staff is retarded and plays favorites right?

BTW, Mr. Booth is probably one of the most knowledgeable football coaches around! He could replace Farrar, Gano, Bogan and Hagerty in a minute! That’s a fact!

Fred,

Go to todays New York times sports page and see the article written about Pad Haden as the new AD at USC. It talks about where he played HS football, you guessed it Bishop Amat H.S. http://www.newyorktimes.com

LOL… and u would know? Doubt it! Brock did play at LA and started at QB, so as for your 3-3-3? Incorrect! And ur a CONQ? WOW! SH and staff clearly played favorites, because if u knew anything, then you wouldn’t be posting what u r posting! Mr. Booth would mop the floor with them and it wouldn’t be close! Brock should be eligible at Bishop, but I’m sure Mr. Booth didn’t want to put anyone at SH in danger of losing their jobs. Trust me Conq, u don’t know the half of it! Stop while you’re ahead…

So I guess Bogan just opened up a can of worms…They recruit at South hills all the time….just like last year’s Canada kids.

BOGAN GET READY FOR SOME DIRT ON YOU!!!

I know Norco had 12 kids transfer in since the end of last years football season…It made somebody unhappy because CIF showed up at few kids doors last week at 8:30pm with Norcos AD and took pictures of the kids rooms & utility bills…Here are a few of notable transfers who will start this season for Norco…
6`0 185-Pound Junior Cameren Hemmings, who started at QB for Riverside Patriot last Season…MLB Chance Baker 6`1 217-pound Senior transfer fromOrange Lutheran…6` 4 205-pound Junior OLB Scott Starr, who made 111 tackles for Desert Oasis High School in Las Vegas a year…OLB 6`1 213-pound Junior Stephen Prescott & 6`0 310-pound Junior DT AJ Kennison from Roosevelt HS…5`9 190 Kicker AJ Cruz Corona HS….

Mr. Robledo,

If you handled this story appropriately you could cover a truth about South Hills and football in the S.G.V. for a long time now that would be insightful, truthful, and expose the reality to South Hills and their motives but unfortunately you probably won’t even post this comment and will continue to subjectively and arbitrarily protect your interest and that is your childhood hero Bogan. We at Bishop Amat just want to remind you that maybe what your failing to realize that instead of acting like TMZ these still our adolescent children we are talking about so how about advocating for them once in a while too not just coaches, their friends like the Guru, and your favorite team.

Bishop Amat parent, this has nothing to do with South Hills, and everything to do with reporting high profile transfers when they happen. Is this any different that when the Times or any other newspaper reports a player transferring to another school? Whether its Los Altos, Bishop Amat, Charter Oak, Duarte, Baldwin Park and so forth, when there are high profile transfers we report it, and when a player is denied, we report that too. I don’t know how I’m protecting South Hills in this instance, I’ve gone on record many times explaining that schools should let players transfer if that’s what parent/child choose to do. I’ve always said as long as you’re making the grades and a good citizen on campus, if your family chooses to relocate and enrolls in another school, you should be able to play sports without interference from your previous school unless there is PROOF that a coach or coaches illegaly recruited said player. I praised South Hills, Bishop Amat and others for historically not challenging transfers while being critical of schools that did challenge. No difference here, if it was me, let Booth play, this is his decision, same goes for the others. As for acting like TMZ, I don’t think reporting that a player is ineligible for athletically motivated reasons falls in that category, do you?

Mr. Robledo,

I do stand corrected on one part of the “real” story and respect if your telling me the truth we agree with you. My apology.

Why punish child if and when their father in this instance “chooses” to transfer his child to another school. Let the child play because by now he’s developed relationships with his new teammates and ultimately not only does the child lose now but also his team. So with that in mind, why suddenly is Coach Bogan “choosing” to not let a kid “transfer” and play at another school when last year for instance he was so upset about what Duarte did to the Canada brothers AND didn’t he say earlier this year that if the kids want to transfer someplace and I am paraphrasing now but in essence we won’t stop them from playing someplace else.

Why suddenly now has Coach Bogan gone back on his word?

Please post this comment too if your truly trying to show the “world” your a man of integrity.

Did I read this right; LA Conq is on this blog defending CIF for denying Booth’s transfer. Talk about a hypocrite. LA has had more illegal transfers than any other school in the SGV. Just because you guys suck now and everyone is leaving your program you want to defend the rule.

What a joke…..

Hope you guys are enjoying being on the other side of TRANSFERS..

We at Amat would never and have never in the past done to South Hills what they are now doing to us. How can anyone have any respect for Coach Bogan and his staff when we never blew the whistle on them and suddenly one time this happens to them and they call foul. I don’t blame anyone not wanting to playing for South Hills. Cowards, absolutely a hypocrisy!

The sad part any intelligent parent now will never transfer their child to South Hills again and instead will go to someplace like us at Bishop Amat because at least we have confidence and faith in ourselves and each other and don’t break unspoken rules.

Seriously, what does South Hills have to say about themselves now because seriously by trying to make a family look bad ultimately they are only making themselves look worse.

Dear Coach Bogan,

I dare you, am begging and pleading with you please schedule Bishop Amat next year but then again that’s right you’ve never played us nor will you ever want to play us. Remember you best player in recent past was one of our former athletes. I know you are reading this right now too.

Dear Mr. Robledo,

Please answer my question in your expert opinion about Coach Bogan.

Why suddenly has he gone back on his word?

To answer Lance, yes the Booth family can appeal, but the sad part is even in a best case scenario, he would likely miss some games while waiting for an appeal date, a part of the process I don’t agree with. To answer Bishop Amat parent, I think part of the regime change at South Hills has something to do with it, and whatever role Bogan played in the decision, I’m not going to speculate. I just learned of this late in the day, as we learn more in the coming days and weeks we will share it along with our opinions, like we always have.
To its quite simple, to say South Hills is no longer viewed as the Valley power it once was is not true at all. What’s true is they have lost some very good talent to other schools, but the coaching peers of the SGV have spoken, ranking South Hills No. 4 in the Valley behind Amat, Charter Oak and Chino Hills. They might not be Amat ready, but top five out of 35 teams in the area is considered a valley power, no ifs, ands or buts about it. It’s also amusing how desperate housewives can say they haven’t had a good team in years. Didn’t they just win the San Antonio and advance to the Southeast semifinals? Yeah, not winning a title is a down year when you have accomplished what South Hills has, but to say they haven’t been a good team in years makes no sense at all. The simple fact that Charter Oak and South Hills were bumped to the Sierra and Inland speaks volumes about their programs and what coaching peers think of them for voting them out league and division. BTW, Aram just called to me and has some news that might shed some light on the transfers, I will link his blog in a sec.

Bishop Amat parent, you wanted answers, South Hills AD Paul Reed provided them and then some, look at the thread just posted. Now you tell me, is that us trying to hide anything?

GUTLESS….WHAT MORE NEEDS TO BE SAID. LOOK AT THE BOGAN INTERVIEW AND HIS CHESHIRE SMILE…I GUESS HE KNEW THIS WAS COMING.

COMPLETELY OVER RATED AS A COACH AND NOW AS A PERSON.

Bogan or should he now be called “Bogus”…is using this opportunity to scare his enrolled current kids that they better not transfer or he will come after you. There is word amongst the kids at SH that there is going to be more transfers, as the team is not going to be very good this year nor the next…as Amat is in an upswing so the the talent will be going back to Bishop…SH benefitted the most from Amat’s downswing in multiple sports FB and Baseball…since J North is gone and not there to slap them, Reed and Bogus are crying foul, knowing they will tie up innocent kids well past the season and in Brocks case his senior year…to say this is BS and a cheap shot is an understatement, Booth was not needed at SH nor wanted so why make a stink now…because for the first time in his young life he has found a home and has settled in nicely, the kids have accepted him and he was going to be able to experience life as an Amat Football player and really understand how special it is to play at Amat…But Bogus has to play the spoiler and cry foul six months later after everything is all approved and the Coaches are settling in there rotations…prediction SH will not make the playoff’s and there will be a mass exodus at SH along with the resurrection of Amat and Pac 5 Championship will bring back the big talent back to La Puente like it used to be. Amat will be playing past Thanksgiving and SH will starting there off season workouts…Bogus payback is a B@tch dude, how dare you take HS away from kids…Reed has little man syndrome…This is the start of SH fall from grace, the long line of other schools is forming to kick the “once bully” ass…you will see you just signed your own death warrant…Classless Ahole’s

Interesting that not one blogger comes on here accusing anyone of illegal recruiting. When this was the Canada’s, very few of you were on South Hills side, most of you played the ethics card and said the Canada’s should have honored their commitment at Duarte, that moving was a bad precedent, and that South Hills was recruiting them anyway. Interesting that nobody says any of those things about these kids now, or that Charter Oak or Bishop Amat may have been tugging at these kids a little too. My point is now everyone is saying a kid should be able to go wherever they want without reprecussions, which is fine. But why when it happens to South Hills, as in the case with the Canada’s, and Jacob Shirley, who West Covina blocked from going to South Hills, why weren’t all of you running to South Hills’ defense. Shouldn’t you of been upset when West Covina blew the whistle on Shirley? Shouldn’t you of been upset when Duarte blew the whistle on not just the Canada’s, but the players who went to Baldwin Park and other schools? You people always want it both ways.

pedronus

So South Hills wants to abolish their open transfer policy…that’s cool. But why wait until TWO WEEKS before the season starts, man? South Hills should have made an announcement…should have gave some sort of warning that they were going to get rid of open tranfers. It should have been something like this…

“HEY SGV! THIS IS SOUTH HILLS! We just wanted everyone to know that beginning in 2011, South Hills will be changing their transfer policy so please beware..blah,blah, blah…”

See how simple that was??? Instead, Bogan and Reed waited like snakes in the grass, pissed off at all the recent transfers leaving, and decided to “fight back?”

And everyone needs to stop comparing WEST COVINA and SOUTH HILLS. It’s simple….South Hills has had an open transfer policy forever. West Covina has NOT and everyone knows this. Only a complete moron would think that West Covina would not contest an outgoing transfer.

Everybody knows So. hills has been recruiting for Decades. That Coach Bogan is a Hypocrite and what goes around comes around. Bishop Amat has been down for a few year’s now. They knew the School was going down hill fast so they hired all these ex-head Coaches from Everywhere.Amat is letting anybody and I know they don’t all pay Tuition to play. Amat has kids coming from as far as chino hills and beyond. Yea open enrollment but amat is cheating.

Congratulations football fans, South Hills is the next Ganesha Bassett!!! Taste that Cameron chukuleros!

Among other things, It’s pathetic how SH admin decided to change their mind after the fact and dispute Brock’s transfer just as the season was about to get underway. Who’s the adult in this picture?

Uhhh, AMAT kicked Dorian out of school. They would not have blocked his transfer anywhere.

My issue, as was the my issue last year, is with CIF…They dabble in to much “gray” for me, if they have rules and plan to enforce them, then it should be clear “black and white” rulings.

This kid, or any kid denied the ability to play, could sue the CIF, state that it cause them actual money “Scholarship” This would make the CIF wakeup. Who is to say a good athlete (which are the ones that get denied) at a good program would have not been offered a scholarship after have a great year? well now the CIF has taken that away and therefore, should have to pay for further education.

I’ve said this before, I would love for kids to play for them home schools and have that pride, and yes I hate all the “recruiting” and transfers but if a kid wants to go and try a new school then who are we to stop them? No they should not be allowed to move more than once in a single year unless they have a “physical” move but other than that, let them go…

Look I hate that Bonita looses some athletes to other schools, yes hate it, but why punish the kids?

Freshman Coach At LA remember this phrase Coach Booth If you are winning a game by two touchdowns why dont you play the other RB Booth Remarks the kid that is in is way better. Well A– wipe All the Schools your Kid has gone to are WAY BETTER RIDE PINE A HOLE

In my opinion, a Head Coach with a good staff should be able to teach,mentor,and coach any athlete regardless of the kid’s skill who is entering into the program. Isnt that what they are there to do? If you are a School/Coach that takes and or relies on transfers from other areas in order to help your program, that doesnt say much for your coaching abilities. If it is for and about “the kids” what about those kids that are in the program that could be molded into a talented athlete, but are not being given a second glance at, due to all this drama with your more skilled players.
With that being said, hats off to all of the PW and JAA Coaches who taught,mentored and actually coached all the these kids from the get go. Obviously those guys along with “the kids” hard work in developing and molding skill has paid off for these top ranked High schools and so called Coaches.

Not too sure how I came across this blog but glad I did discover it. Think I was looking for something else on google. Not sure I agree 100% with what you say, but have bookmaked and will pop back to read to see if you add any additional posts. Carry on the very good work.