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Post by ProfessorFate on Nov 30, 2019 0:43:24 GMT -8
Sweet revenge for the Sea Kings. Nice work CDM!
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Post by SK80 on Nov 30, 2019 1:46:29 GMT -8
56 points. Like I said all year and all last summer.... what you score we double ya! @bick Grace by 3 ?  |
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Post by Bick on Nov 30, 2019 7:07:57 GMT -8
Let's try not to be too insufferable today SK80. Enjoy the parade... Very special year for you and the skings. Congrats.
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Post by SK80 on Nov 30, 2019 15:44:34 GMT -8
Let's try not to be too insufferable today SK80. Enjoy the parade... Very special year for you and the skings. Congrats. I'm saving it for tomorrow.....  Waiting for the dust to settle...., found a little bit of humbleness is Brethrens coach Josh Henderson quote in the Ventura papers.... (being that he labeled us a 7v7 team!) "I really think in Division 3 I put ourselves, La Habra and Alemany right near the top," said Henderson. "But Corona del Mar is clearly at a different level. I don't know who can beat that team right now." |
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Post by Bick on Nov 30, 2019 15:58:01 GMT -8
Let's try not to be too insufferable today SK80. Enjoy the parade... Very special year for you and the skings. Congrats. I'm saving it for tomorrow..... Waiting for the dust to settle...., found a little bit of humbleness is Brethrens coach Josh Henderson quote in the Ventura papers.... (being that he labeled us a 7v7 team!) "I really think in Division 3 I put ourselves, La Habra and Alemany right near the top," said Henderson. "But Corona del Mar is clearly at a different level. I don't know who can beat that team right now."Fact is, you really are playing at a D1 level. MD / Bosco should be playing in a national tournament. Take those 2 out, and you would've had a pretty darn competitive D1. Next year, you and Grace will get the opportunity to take on the big dogs. |
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Post by SK80 on Dec 6, 2019 13:48:43 GMT -8
I'm saving it for tomorrow..... Waiting for the dust to settle...., found a little bit of humbleness is Brethrens coach Josh Henderson quote in the Ventura papers.... (being that he labeled us a 7v7 team!) "I really think in Division 3 I put ourselves, La Habra and Alemany right near the top," said Henderson. "But Corona del Mar is clearly at a different level. I don't know who can beat that team right now."Fact is, you really are playing at a D1 level. MD / Bosco should be playing in a national tournament. Take those 2 out, and you would've had a pretty darn competitive D1. Next year, you and Grace will get the opportunity to take on the big dogs. Ya I watch the replay last night, in the second half those CDM guys balled out. You can see their confidence now knowing they belong, for so many years they got knocked for being rich white kids, too pampered, too soft, to slow, too small. Here is a great piece in yesterdays paper.... it's the stigma..... how funny was the CIF Fox coverage with Petros... "Ya those Surfer boys from CDM can really play ball"! Whicker: Corona del Mar football crushes stereotypes and opponents alike
Sea Kings go for a 15-0 record against Oceanside on Saturday
By MARK WHICKER | mwhicker@scng.com | Daily News
PUBLISHED: December 5, 2019 at 9:37 pm | UPDATED: December 5, 2019 at 9:58 pm
NEWPORT BEACH — They’ve heard it all before.
They’ve heard it so much that they like it, the stuff about the BMWs and the silver spoons and the creature comforts that don’t usually fit such a painful game.
The Corona del Mar Sea Kings are 117-19-2 in the past 10 seasons, 14-0 this year as they prepare for Oceanside in a state semifinal on Saturday.
Their coaches sat around a classroom Thursday, talking about memorable wins, like Newport Harbor in 2013 and San Clemente in 2018 and Huntington Beach in 2011.
John Griffin, whom head coach Dan O’Shea calls “the director of football operations, because he hates that,” thought of a night at Alemany, when the Sea Kings sprang their usual surprise.
“We’re walking out and an older man is standing there and says, ‘Damn, when y’all showed up in baby blue jerseys and those surfer boy haircuts, I thought we were going to roll you.’ And then he gave us a hug,” Griffin said.
Kevin Hettig, the offensive coordinator, says it’s a unicorn, a bunch of local kids who largely played together as kids and never wanted to stop.
Grant and Angelique Garbers told their son Chase that he could play at Mater Dei if he wanted. He didn’t, and now he quarterbacks Cal.
Chase’s brother Ethan was the ballboy and now he’s the quarterback. John Humphreys is one of three lights-out receivers. He’ll be at Stanford next year, and Ethan at Washington. John’s brother Ben played at Mater Dei and then Duke.
“Matt Barkley lived down the street,” O’Shea said, speaking of the all-everything quarterback from Mater Dei and USC. “Ben looked up to him. Now kids look up to Chase and Ethan and John. And Ben will tell you now he’d rather have played here, looking back.”
All this football is thriving in the most unlikely habitat.
The 92625 zip code was the 14th richest in America last year, with a median home price of $2.8 million. This should be ground zero for Footballphobia, a virus that spreads among moms.
And yet football is cool at CdM. O’Shea said there were 93 freshmen who showed up two years ago. There are 166 players in the program, all told.
Angelique Garbers is mom to Chase and Ethan and, really, all the rest. “She’s the general manager,” said Brian Pearsall, the defensive coordinator. “She runs the show.”
Team meals, email loops, shifts at the concession stand, they’re all in Angelique’s bailiwick. Somehow Grant and Angelique coordinated their schedules so that both made almost every CdM and Cal game.
“There are parents who are afraid of football,” Angelique said. “They’ll say, ‘What do you think?’ I’m the wrong person to ask. Our kids have played since they were seven.”
Winning has wiped out fear. In last year’s CIF Southern Section final against Grace Brethren, several Sea Kings were blocking players 100 pounds heavier or, worse yet, getting blocked.
“I remember the eyes,” Pearsall said. “The defense came off the field last year and the guys were saying, ‘Uh, coach … what do you want us to do?’ They basically picked us up and threw us down the field.”
“Every day in the weight room, they were saying, ‘This is how I’m going to block that big guy from Grace,’” Hettig said.
Last year Grace won 26-14. This year CdM won 56-28, with touchdowns on its first eight possessions.
O’Shea vaccinates against Footballphobia. The Sea Kings avoid contact in practice. Instead of tackling the ball carrier, the defenders “fit” their way into the play. The whistle blows immediately.
“We don’t have guys on the ground,” O’Shea said. “There’s no need for it. We’ve had two concussions the whole season, none at practice.”
But the coaches were wary of the other disease, Affluenza, when they came from Trabuco Hills eight years ago.
They soon learned that wealth actually works against laziness and that high motors in the classroom translated to the field. The Sea Kings have obstacles, such as practicing at Costa Mesa or Newport Harbor because of a renovated practice field. Motivation isn’t one.
“From the day we got here, they were as tough as nails,” Hettig said.
“We’ve had to make them run just once, all these years,” Pearsall said, “and that’s after they finally beat Newport Harbor and they weren’t focused on the next game.”
“And they play for each other,” O’Shea said. “Guys aren’t trying to transfer. We like the kids that just show up on their skateboards, and then get picked up by mom and dad.”
So why shouldn’t football carry such appreciation? In Corona del Mar, everything does.
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Post by Bick on Dec 8, 2019 8:30:02 GMT -8
Very underrated defense comes up big last night. Defense wins championships.
One more to go.
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Post by friarjoe on Dec 8, 2019 13:50:47 GMT -8
Very impressive program. Much respect to them.
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Post by ProfessorFate on Dec 8, 2019 19:25:49 GMT -8
Very underrated defense comes up big last night. Defense wins championships. One more to go. Good thing I stunk up the place in this week's playoff pool, or I'd be mad at the Sea Kings for that performance. |
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Post by kupprunneth on Dec 8, 2019 20:52:14 GMT -8
is cdm the game before bosco?
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Post by SK80 on Dec 9, 2019 7:07:23 GMT -8
is cdm the game before bosco? @thekuppster #AnswerYes If your interested I'll give you all my take on the game, a very unusual game for CDM after I gather some more numbers, thoughts and probably consume a few more cups of joe........ |
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Post by kupprunneth on Dec 9, 2019 7:46:52 GMT -8
I'll catch the game. Pretty cool to see CDM and their coach who coached with Jason Negro back in the Trabuco days play the game before.
What's the first game of the day? Sierra Canyon?
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Post by SK80 on Dec 9, 2019 14:55:19 GMT -8
I'll catch the game. Pretty cool to see CDM and their coach who coached with Jason Negro back in the Trabuco days play the game before. What's the first game of the day? Sierra Canyon? KUPP I posted schedule on State Playoff thread.... so you are watching on TV or going...? |
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Post by kupprunneth on Dec 9, 2019 15:04:14 GMT -8
I'll catch the game. Pretty cool to see CDM and their coach who coached with Jason Negro back in the Trabuco days play the game before. What's the first game of the day? Sierra Canyon? KUPP I posted schedule on State Playoff thread.... so you are watching on TV or going...? absolutely going. Wouldnt miss this for anything. I had a trip to Lambeau Field to watch he Packers play this weekend but cancelled. Lost out of the plain tickets money. Didnt plan on the boys making it to state! |
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Post by SK80 on Dec 9, 2019 16:49:21 GMT -8
Cool runnings Kupp, best of luck..., you know I root for my OC guys being MD, but in State I got my So Cal guys..... enjoy the game I hope its worth the lost money.....! As for my Sea Kings and last OC team standing, I've been 110% positive on every outcome for 14 games until #15......, game 15 has given me pause..., I hope last Saturday was the catalyst to going out in game #16 and playing like the fact, there is no game #17.
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Waiting for the dust to settle....,
