sportsfanman wrote: The privates need to play with the other privates in playoffs at least here are some playoff scores all won by private schools Alemany 42-14 over Moorpark , Chaminade 64 - 11 over Pacifica, Mission Viejo 42-10 over Westlake, Serra 49-13 over Oxnard these scores are not even close because the privates get hand picked players that go to their private school for free, you can tell which players are hand picked and on a free ride which  are the stars of the team  and which players are paying full tuition and are getting no plaing time. Let all the private schools including Bonnies and Mater Dei knock each other off like Notre Dame did to OC and let the public schools  battle amongst themselves.

It should be up to any public if they want to play with the private schools.  My point is it is such an uneven playing field, I don't really like it when stuff like the MP/Alemany game happens.  I don't like it when the odds are stacked so heavily in my favor - not my kind of game.

Ventura

805coach wrote: What's the difference in how bad Moorpark got spanked between Westlake and Alemany
Just that 1 is a private - dumb

Again that mentality just reinforces to your kids ( football team) how life isn't " fair"
What's your excuse when little Jimmy gets recruited by USC and they get beat by Notre Dame
There will always be better players and better teams, coach , teach , inspire to give 110% and leave it all on the field and they won't have any regrets

frankieboy1 wrote: MV is not open enrollment (I live in their attendance area) but people do move into the attendance area to play there...

What got a lot of players into MV in the past was the fact that the only active HS agricultural program in OC was very conveniently located at MV...hence if your HS didn't offer ag, you could request a transfer ostensibly to milk cows :)  Program was discontinued a year ago, but the animals are still there...

805coach wrote: Paragraph 1 was in regards to the statement that private Alemany soundly beat public Moorpark
When the week before public westlake beat public Moorpark by about the same score
So my question is what's the difference
Is a beat down from a public school more acceptable than a beat down from a private
So what do you tell those boys- the loss to westlake is ok but the loss to alemany is unacceptable just they "recruit"

Well put! I would like to add that the administrations at these schools can't give out a lot of "free rides".  The football players make up a small part of the student body. There are plenty of students who's parents (the ones that pay the tuition) don't care about football, at least not enough to see their child's tuition go up to pay for a football player.  My son plays two other sports and I hear it all the time especially from the parents of athletes that don't play football.  In order to keep the peace, there is no way they could give out the freebies that some people assume they are.  Most of the time a discount on tuition is the best you're going to get and usually that depends on your income.  The simple fact is that these young athletes want to go to the private schools. My son was in public school from kindergarten to 8th grade.  He went on a 6 month campaign the beginning of his 8th grade year to convince us to send him to the school he attends. Very happy with our decision. He knew he would have a better chance at making it to the next level with the coaching and exposure he would get. The work ethic that he has acquired from the football program has trickled down into every aspect of his life.  He is far and away a better student then he was 2 years ago.  Always had the brains but was a bit lazy.