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2 hours ago, bigrobstercraws said:

Don't they have the LB Poly starter from 2018 and Trillian Harris who was MV's JV QB too?

So I guess San Clam and maybe El Toro gets a transfer QB when this is all said and done lol

Ha!!!... The great thing for MV is they don’t even have to pretend these kids are “Farmers” Anymore!!!...🤣

Imagine what Spongebob could have done with the trasfer rules of today!!!....🙂

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4 hours ago, THEOC89 said:

Ha!!!... The great thing for MV is they don’t even have to pretend these kids are “Farmers” Anymore!!!...🤣

Imagine what Spongebob could have done with the trasfer rules of today!!!....🙂

BJ didn't do it so bad in the day since 2000. 5 straight aganist the 'stache, 2 straight aganist a Lad coached NorCal champ. MD can never claim a win against a Lad DLS after losing 4 in a row. Simply BJ did something Rolo NEVER did  beat  a LAD  DLS on the field 2 times in a row. Beat Don Bosco Prep (Ramsey) in OT, something a Lad DLS could never accomplish in 2 games.

The Farmers program that MD coolaid drinkers have ridiculed for decades. Will always take a 2nd seat in the OC to the current Mater Dei policy to allow of non catholic transfers admissions as hired mercinary ghetto rat, ski mask wearing, shoplifting thugs. Who can transfer out, after they get a ring.

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Mira Costa High School breaks ground on $38 million athletic complex in Manhattan Beach

  • A 20,000 square-foot gym with three courts;
  • A naturally lit community pavilion gym,;
  • 1,500 square feet of sports medicine space,;
  • 4,500 square feet for strength and development training;
  • A 60-person classroom;
  • A dance room;
  • Physical education locker rooms and team rooms;
  • and a terrace overlooking the track and Waller Stadium.
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St. John Bosco's DJ Uiagalelei is aiming to be the No. 1 prospect of the 2020 recruiting class

By SHOTGUN SPRATLING
FEB 18, 2019 | 7:10 PM 
  
 
St. John Bosco's DJ Uiagalelei is aiming to be the No. 1 prospect of the 2020 recruiting class
St. John Bosco High quarterback DJ Uiagalelei's blend of arm strength, accuracy and intangibles translate into a potential No. 1 prospect for the 2020 recruiting class. (Michael Owen Baker / For The Times)
 

DJ Uiagalelei is trying to become only the fifth quarterback to be chosen the No. 1 prospect in his recruiting class in the 19 years Rivals has been rating high school football prospects.

The 6-foot-4 Bellflower St. John Bosco product is in prime position to make that happen. Rivals released Monday its updated top 10 for the 2020 class and it has a heavy Southern California flavor at the top. Three of the top four players are from the Southland, with Uiagalelei remaining at the top with his blend of arm strength, accuracy and intangibles.

 
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“[He] has incredible skills and he's everything NFL teams are looking for in a quarterback,” Rivals national analyst Adam Gorney said. “He’s smart, he takes to coaching, he has an incredible strong arm and in the last year or two years his accuracy has gotten so much better. Uiagalelei no longer just throws a fastball, he can put touch on his passes, he can lead receivers and he’s an excellent teammate.”

Uiagalelei has climbed to the top of the recruiting rankings where no Southern California player has finished since defensive end Ronald Powell of Moreno Valley Rancho Verde in 2010.

 

“There are going to be a lot of outstanding prospects pushing Uiagalelei for the No. 1 spot in a loaded 2020 class, but the coaches at Bosco had Josh Rosen and now Uiagalelei, so they know how to develop elite talent and the 2020 quarterback is something special,” Gorney said.

Two of those Uiagalelei will be trying to stave off are local defenders who will be trying to shut him down. Upland linebacker Justin Flowe stayed at No. 3 in the latest rankings and Santa Ana Mater Dei cornerback Elias Ricks moved from No. 6 to No. 4.

Uiagalelei and Ricks faced off in the St. John Bosco-Mater Dei rivalry twice last year. Ricks essentially locked down one side of the field as Uiagalelei rarely tested him.

There were plenty of other options readily available in the first matchup. Uiagalelei completed 15 of 22 passes for 279 yards and five touchdowns in a 41-18 rout, though none of the five scores came against Ricks in man-to-man coverage. Mater Dei shut down the Braves’ passing attack in the Southern Section Open Division championship. The Monarchs held Uiagalelei to seven-for-19 passing for 177 yards with two interceptions, including a diving catch by Ricks for the ninth interception of his junior season. He returned six for touchdowns.

 
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Flowe had 19 tackles, a sack and two quarterback hits against St. John Bosco his freshman year, but Uiagalelei didn’t make his debut with the Braves until a year later. That game was a launching point for Flowe becoming one of the most recognized defenders in the nation. Rivals’ top defensive player loves to hit and doesn’t shy away from competition.

“What I love about Justin Flowe is that he’s already a five-star prospect and a top-five player nationally; he’s already done all the big events and received all the accolades but he still keeps showing up at every camp and every seven-on-seven tournament looking to prove himself,” Gorney said.

“The five-star linebacker has loftier goals than a ranking or a big reputation on the high school level. He has an incredible maturity and focus that will stay with him in the coming years and he’s the most physical linebacker I may have ever seen doing this job. He loves to play a violent sport violently and he makes no excuses about it.”

Ricks, who is headed for Louisiana State, is just as competitive and was very impressive on the camp circuit before his outstanding junior year, including at Rivals’ top event, the invite-only Rivals100 Five-Star Challenge.

 

“As a rising junior, he was the best cornerback at the event, which was loaded at the position,” Gorney said. “He has incredible long arms, he’s highly competitive and he’s faster than people give him credit for. I also like that Ricks always has his eye on getting better and staying focused for a bright future ahead of him. He’s already committed to LSU, maybe the best school nationally in developing cornerbacks for the NFL, so he’s making all the right moves.”

Uiagalelei and Flowe remain uncommitted.

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Brent Vieselmeyer Named Head Football Coach at SMCHS

February 19, 2019

 

Rancho Santa Margarita, Calif. – Santa Margarita Catholic High School announced today the selection of Brent Vieselmeyer as the school’s head football coach effective immediately. 

 

Brent Vieselmeyer joins the SMCHS Eagles from Kansas University where he most recently held the position of offensive analyst. Prior to coaching last season with the Kansas University Jayhawks, Vieselmeyer was with the Oakland Raiders of the National Football League for three seasons. He joined the Raider franchise in 2015 after spending 15 years coaching at the collegiate and high school levels. While at Oakland, Vieselmeyer held positions as assistant linebacker coach and safeties coach.

 

“I am honored to be the head football coach at Santa Margarita Catholic High School and excited to get started,” Vieselmeyer said.    

 

Vieselmeyer spent two seasons as co-defensive coordinator at Houston Baptist University from 2013-14. Prior to joining the Houston Baptist University Huskies, he served as head coach at highly-respected Valor Christian High School in Highlands Ranch, Colo. beginning in March 2007, when he launched the football program. 

 

At Valor Christian, he compiled a 55-11 record (.833), leading the Eagles to four-straight state championships in 2009 (3A), 2010 (4A), 2011 (4A) and 2012 (5A). He was named The Denver Post Colorado Coach of the Year in 2009, 2010 and 2011 and was All Sport Jefferson County Coach of the Year in 2010.

 

Vieselmeyer began his coaching career at Orange Lutheran High School in Orange, Calif., where he spent eight years as defensive coordinator. He led the Lancers to the 2006 Division II California state title. They also won the 2004 CIF-Southern Section championship and were finalists again in 2000, 2001 and 2003. During his career, Vieselmeyer has seen 31 of his student-athletes earn college football scholarships.

 

A native of Wauwatosa, Wis., Vieselmeyer played linebacker at the University of Redlands (California) and Concordia University in Mequon, Wis. He earned a Bachelor of Arts in education from Concordia in 1999 and a Master of Arts in educational administration from the University of Phoenix in 2005.

 

“Brent is a faith-filled person with the experience, passion and leadership skills to lead our football program,” said Santa Margarita Catholic High School Assistant Principal of Athletics Jim Hartigan.   

 

Santa Margarita Catholic High School is a college-preparatory school under the leadership of the Diocese of Orange.  The school strives to develop students who are people of faith, skilled lifelong learners, healthy individuals and involved citizens of the world.

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I don’t know much about Vieselmeyer but it looks like a good ‘football’ hire. Although we all know that is not enough in the Trinity league. In recent years Santa Margarita, OLu and Servite hired coaches that failed to meet expectations and it wasn’t because they were not good coaches. In fact they are excellent coaches. Vieselmeyer’s future success or failure will come down to to whether he is willing to join the arms race that MD, Bosco and JSerra are a part of. He will need to connect with the current players, embrace 7X7, social media, camps, etc. It will be interesting to see how this hire affects the flight of players into and out of Santa Margarita.

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35 minutes ago, Bodysurf said:

I don’t know much about Vieselmeyer but it looks like a good ‘football’ hire. Although we all know that is not enough in the Trinity league. In recent years Santa Margarita, OLu and Servite hired coaches that failed to meet expectations and it wasn’t because they were not good coaches. In fact they are excellent coaches. Vieselmeyer’s future success or failure will come down to to whether he is willing to join the arms race that MD, Bosco and JSerra are a part of. He will need to connect with the current players, embrace 7X7, social media, camps, etc. It will be interesting to see how this hire affects the flight of players into and out of Santa Margarita.

Basically, can he and his staff that he puts together recruit?

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Santa Margarita made an announcement early Tuesday night that landed like one of those late-in-the-game trick plays for a much-needed touchdown. 

The Eagles pulled a respected name from Orange County football’s past back into the Trinity League fray by announcing Brent Vieselmeyer as its new football coach. 

Vieselmeyer certainly wasn’t on my radar. And I’m not the only one taken by surprise. placeholder.png

 

There were some fascinating and colorful candidates rumored for the Santa Margarita opening but who had Orange Lutheran’s former star defensive coordinator from 2006 as the favorite? 

Vieselmeyer spent last season at the University of Kansas as an offensive analyst. 

Vieselmeyer’s ex-boss at Orange Lutheran, Jim Kunau, remains on the SoCal football scene but he’s now coaching at Rancho Christian in Temecula. 

But like a successful trick play, Santa Margarita’s hire appears well-planned and one that checks many boxes. 

And it seems to have an astute football man’s fingerprints all over it. That would be Santa Margarita assistant principal of athletics Jim Hartigan, the Eagles’ original football coach who Kunau praised Wednesday for the hire. 

Interestingly, when Vieselmeyer hit his heights at Orange Lutheran in 2006 – the Lancers’ state title season and the first season of the Trinity League — Hartigan was coaching at Clovis West. But Hartigan was only a few years removed from Santa Margarita. 

In 2007, Vieselmeyer moved on to become the coach at Valor Christian in Colorado and Hartigan took the reins at JSerra. 

But for those following O.C. football – and Hartigan obviously qualifies — Vieselmeyer was a rising assistant well before 2006. Vieselmeyer was an assistant coach Kunau always went out of his way to praise and promote. 

Vieselmeyer played as a senior at Orange Lutheran for Kunau. He would later become part of a rising Orange Lutheran coaching staff that would tour Mater Dei as the Lancers transitioned from small-school power to major Orange County contender. 

That’s a program trek Hartigan made at Santa Margarita. 

He described Vieselmeyer on Tuesday as a high-character leader. 

Vieselmeyer knows football – as previous coach Rich Fisher did. But he also has the unique combination of home-grown, Orange County knowledge with the experience of coaching at various other places and levels – from college to the NFL. 

“The young men at Santa Margarita are getting a tremendous coach who will give them a great experience both on the field and in their character and spiritual development,” Kunau said Wednesday. 

“His football acumen is off the charts, and his organizational leadership, teaching ability and relational skills are exceptional. … And he will make a big, positive impact on campus there.” 

All these qualities will help the Eagles, who are in need of a reboot and coaching stability. 

Coming off a 0-5 Trinity League season and coaching drama, Santa Margarita has lost four key players, including starting sophomore quarterback Peter Costelli, as transfers to rival schools. 

Costelli, who showed promise as first-year starter last season, is now at South County rival Mission Viejo. 

Santa Margarita doesn’t have a reputation as a highly-popular transfer destination, so it appears to be turning to Vieselmeyer to grow and then keep its talent. The latter is increasingly challenging in the current high school climate. 

And the on-the-field winning? 

Yes, the Trinity League of 2019 will be much different – and much tougher – than 2006 because of the rise of Mater Dei and St. John Bosco as true national powers. Those programs are locked-in and ready to steam roll the competition. 

But as the Eagles’ latest play call surfaced Tuesday night, they scored a much-needed touchdown that could lead to a rally for the program.

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