Category Archives: Recruiting
Preseason All-Northern Sec FB Team
Every year, it seems Pleasant Valley (Chico), Sutter and East Nicolaus control the fortunes in the top three divisions in the Northern Section CIF. Those three will be strong once again, but rising Foothill (Palo Cedro) and Shasta (Redding) aren’t far off to push for top spot. Defending D3 section champ West Valley (Cottonwood) reloads...
Preseason All-CCS Football Team
Valley Christian of San Jose, which is loaded with top returnees from last year’s CIF D1-A NorCal regional bowl runner-up, is clearly the team to beat and leads the way with five members of this year’s preseason All-CCS squad. Others landing more than one player on this team include Serra of San Mateo, St. Francis...
Preseason Redwood Empire FB Team
It has been no secret that Marin Catholic (Kentfield), Cardinal Newman (Santa Rosa) and Rancho Cotate (Rohnert Park) have been the class of the Redwood Empire portion of the CIF North Coast Section for recent years. But even after a realignment that sees the NCS going to a seven division format plus an 8-man division,...
Preseason Inland Empire FB Team
Corona Centennial, as is usually the case, has some dominant players and will start out third or fourth in the state depending on which poll you believe. But the Huskies aren’t the only team that could be in top 15 or higher in the preseason state rankings. Rancho Cucamonga and Upland of the Baseline League...
Preseason San Diego Sec FB Team
Cathedral Catholic is the defending Open Division champion and probably should be regarded as the favorite to start 2019, but arch-rival St. Augustine actually has more players on this year’s preseason squad of honors candidates with four. Other schools with multiple players written up include Lincoln of San Diego and Mission Hills of San Marcos....
Preseason Central Section FB Team
We’ll now start going more quickly with the compilations of these preseason all-section and all-area football teams. We go from the CIF Sac-Joaquin Section in a southern direction down the Valley to the CIF Central Section for our third one. Defending D1 champion Central of Fresno will have to replace a record-breaking quarterback but as...
2021 FB: Foreman & Franklin No. 1-2
Centennial of Corona defensive lineman Korey Foreman and Menlo-Atherton receiver Troy Franklin are in the top two positions as the most promising players in California’s Class of 2021 gets ready for the 2019 season. We’ve gone through all of our files, checked some of the film and the notebook from games seen last season (not...
Preseason Sac-Joaquin Sec FB Team
It’s been a couple of weeks since the first of these teams for the upcoming 2019 season was done. That’s because it was planned to be posted during a recent vacation and we signed up one of our free-lance editors to do it. Today, we’ll get the second one posted, which will be for our...
Preseason Orange County FB Team
We are kicking off our preseason football coverage for the 2019 season with the first of our annual preseason all-county, all-section or all-region teams that will eventually touch every corner of California. We start with talent-laden Orange County, home to the two-time defending CIF Open Division champion Mater Dei Monarchs. They obviously dominate these selections,...
Class of 2020 FB: Flowe To Top
Upland linebacker Justin Flowe will start the 2019 high school football season in California regarded as the state’s No. 1 college prospect. That’s because of his No. 1, No. 1 and No. 2 placements according to player rankings by the three major recruiting networks. He’s also now on top of the Cal-Hi Sports Hot 100...
