#81

High School Football Discussion / Re: World Cup

Last post by Ararar - Jul 01, 2026, 07:45 PM

The Stars and Stripes are moving on! But it will be w/o Balogun (It wouldn't  be the WC wo a bogus call against the US)

That ref was pretty bad all game

#82

High School Football Discussion / Re: World Cup

Last post by Crusader - Jul 01, 2026, 07:35 PM

All three host nations won their first knockout game. Which of them goes the farthest?

#83

High School Football Discussion / Re: World Cup

Last post by Crusader - Jul 01, 2026, 07:11 PM

The Stars and Stripes are moving on! But it will be w/o Balogun (It wouldn't  be the WC wo a bogus call against the US)

#84

High School Football Discussion / Re: World Cup

Last post by Crusader - Jul 01, 2026, 03:57 PM

Belgium scores twice in the final minutes to force OT vs Senegal

And they proceeded to win on a penalty, the latest goal in WC history. They play the winner of USA/Bosnia on Monday

#85

High School Football Discussion / Re: World Cup

Last post by Crusader - Jul 01, 2026, 03:00 PM

Belgium scores twice in the final minutes to force OT vs Senegal

#86

High School Football Discussion / Re: Formal declaration of vict...

Last post by Belly Bob - Jul 01, 2026, 01:16 PM

There's no bait. It's just human nature to want to say "I told you so" to people who repeatedly denigrated you for views you held which were proven correct. Carry on...

I don't mind the political stuff myself, but it's not my website. @TheCompPoll has asked that we keep the politics off the boards.

#87

High School Football Discussion / Re: Arizona Scores & News

Last post by Wooderson - Jun 30, 2026, 11:13 PM

How good was he?  Playing with 2 other NFL players sons too?  I should have paid more attention to Brophy last year. I will this year.

RELATED - one of those NFL sons is transferring to Minnesota

#88

High School Football Discussion / Re: California

Last post by TheOC89 - Jun 30, 2026, 06:49 PM

In this era of "NIL" and super-team building, you have to fully play that recruiting game and you have to be in an area where you can pull large numbers of talented players. Either you're in a densely talented area, you can pull from a large geographical region, or both. I don't see DLS going "all in" on the super team stuff, and there isn't enough talent in the East Bay- particularly if you exclude talented athletes that are a bad match for the values of your program- to consistently produce nationally elite teams.

The Sacramento area would be a more likely area where a super team could be possible. But, there doesn't appear to be a program with the money or history to emerge as a power. The schools out towards Placer County are seen as being in a white, "MAGA" area and so they have a harder time pulling from inner-city Sacramento.

The South Bay region has some wealthier private schools with potential, but, unlike Trinity League schools down south, they have almost no access to heavily black (meaning more likely to be football oriented) areas.

So, it's going to be somewhat rare for a Northern or Central California school to be a national power in this era.

Agree with what you are saying.... The Ironic thing is DLS IS the School that has the $$ to do this but they never will because they believe that their mission is to Mentor Young Men and help them grow up and become people that can be counted on in their Communities..... Not to make them Rich with NIL and succumb to parents demands....

Right or wrong this is how they will operate, they will always be good but they won't be MD or SJB.... In Sacramento you do not have teams that have the resources to pay players.... Folsom and Grant get players because of their JR programs and history of getting kids to the next level....

The biggest difference now about DLS is that in the past people believed that their kid had a better chance of getting successfully recruited to College at DLS so they would go there no matter what the distances.... But that's just not the case anymore....

And now PITT is in the rise with a really good Coach who recruits the Youth FB well and kids in that area are staying "Home" instead of going to DLS....

PITT will beat DLS this year in the Playoffs....

#89

High School Football Discussion / Re: California

Last post by AztecPadre - Jun 30, 2026, 02:54 PM

FIFY

Lol. Touche

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#90

High School Football Discussion / Re: California

Last post by Bodysurf - Jun 30, 2026, 10:51 AM

CEN10 has been stacking up transfer studs EVERY year. They will be a serious force this coming fall. DLS always has a chance, but I am not convinced they can overcome the talent CEN10 will have.

FIFY