2019 Football Rankings - ours and theirs

Gorman said "No"? That would be a mighty feat to have them on your schedule but seeing they doubled up Servite last year not sure how ugly that game would turn out 

Like the rest of your schedule. It is formidable and appears competitive.

And there's the secret sauce that St. John Bosco (since 2013) and Mater Dei (since 2016) have committed themselves to in order to reach the current pinnacle of imbalance with the rest of HSFB. With all due respect, any other explanations are mere window-dressing. To get theological, grace builds on nature.

It's not cheating or against CIF rules.

Just own it.  

First of all, it IS cheating. Virtually all talented football players, whether transfers or incoming freshman, engage in what the CIF calls "pre-enrollment contact" with the schools they are considering.  That is a fact, and it's true at St. John Bosco, Mater Dei, Servite, JSerra, Orange Lutheran and a multitude of other top programs. It is a clear violation of the rules, and it is therefore cheating.

And second, I think I've always owned up to the fact that certain ethnic groups tend to improve the quality of a football program. If you want to call that a secret sauce, I have no objections.  What I find disappointing is the fact that you and others won't own up to the fact that schools like Servite, JSerra and Orange Lutheran have been working twice as hard to find the same secret sauce, and only come up with half the results.

Count us out of this saucy recipe! 

And the" Trophy Bowl of Sauce" goes to those whom do the cooking TWICE as good or double the "results"! 

Not true, sir. I've been at the school for a decade and see no discernible difference in the make-up of our kids over that period of time. That's not because of a "lack of results"; it's that we're not trying to build a college football team on the HS level. Mater Dei, on the other hand, is unrecognizable from just five years ago; Bosco a few years beyond that. As I said, MD and Bosco simply need to concede the decision they've made, own it, and not accuse everyone else of merely failing to be as successful at creating a football academy.

It's simple: Jason Negro started this in the Trinity League; Mater Dei got tired of getting its butt kicked by little brother and decided to join the party. What--it took Bruce Rollinson 25 years to figure out that more black and Polynesian kids might improve his winning pct? Obviously not--he simply decided he needed to do whatever it took to keep up with Negro. Why wasn't he already doing this between 1990-2015? Mater Dei never took in transfers like Dollars and Criddell but still figured out how to field a winner without requiring D-1 kids at virtually every position.

Any private school COULD do the same thing (see Sierra Canyon) ; don't pretend the Big Two have some patent on the process. I can't speak for the OLU, SM, and JSerra but Servite simply will not go down that road. And if that means a perennial 3rd place finish in the current environment, so be it.

Solid schedule for the Friars.

Well, now I'm confused. Dan Albano, just two days ago, says Servite's schedule includes:

Mission Viejo @ Servite

Konawaena of Hawaii @ Mission Viejo

Liberty of Henderson Nev. in a showcase in Las Vegas

Desert Pines of Nevada @ Mission Viejo

??

No mention of dates, and no mention of who the fifth opponent is.