As L.A. City section programs look to recover from the fallout of COVID-19, the talent among the skill positions is recovering nicely, although the trench talent still has a long way to go to match the level of a generation ago. The participation numbers also are up after 16 section programs didn’t field a team in 2020 and there are a...
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Preseason All-NCS Redwood Empire
This region of the NCS captured four section titles and two CIF state titles last season. One of the players on this team transferred from one school (San Marin of Novato) that won a CIF state title to another one (Marin Catholic). Rancho Cotate of Rohnert Park and Cardinal Newman of Santa Rosa also have...
Preseason All-Long Beach/South Bay
In the carving up of the massive CIF Southern Section into different sections for this tour of the state through various preseason all-county, all-area and all-section football teams, this is the one that combines the Long Beach area and the South Bay. In other words, national powerhouse St. John Bosco’s region. Serra of Gardena and...
Preseason All-Orange County FB Team
For the second stop in a tour of the state through the selection of preseason football honor squads, we hit Orange County of the CIF Southern Section. Defending CIF Open Division state champ Mater Dei is the dominant program in the county, but there are a bunch of great players ready to roll from schools...
Preseason All-Inland Empire FB Team
It’s time to get going with our annual series of preseason football outlooks from different parts of the state through the selection of preseason honor squads. For this first stop, we begin our tour with the Inland Empire area of the CIF Southern Section. This team is for schools from Riverside and San Bernardino counties...
Preseason All-NCS Redwood Empire
This 12th and final one of these preseason all-area or all-section football teams covers the beautiful Redwood Empire portion of the CIF North Coast Section from Marin County all the way to the Oregon border. Yes, we know the season has begun, but only by a few days for these players. This time, it’s not...
Preseason L.A. City Section FB Team
The Narbonne of Harbor City dynasty ended in 2019 right before COVID-19 hit L.A. County hard and negatively impacted the 2020 season for L.A. City section programs. Right now, it’s not about the section’s top teams cracking the weekly state rankings or a bunch of players earning college scholarships. It’s about safely getting back on...
Preseason FB (San Fernando-Ventura)
This is the final one of these preseason honors teams to get out from the CIF Southern Section and basically covers the northwest portion of it from just outside the San Fernando Valley, then out to Ventura & Santa Barbara counties. It is the seventh stop in our tour of the state with these preseason...
Preseason FB: All-San Fernando & San Gabriel Valley FB Team
For this final stop of our exclusive preseason football tour of the entire state, which has listed players from Humboldt-Del Norte and Yreka in the north to the Imperial Valley in the south, we’re landing in the combined CIF Southern Section valleys of San Fernando, San Gabriel, Santa Clarita and Antelope (plus a couple of...
