Comments on: Grant answers all critics

By: The Black Swan

The Black Swan — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 01:59:15 +0000

To all the Grant haters…please stop and just finally give us some damn respect. Always excuses of who, what, where, when, why, how, coulda, shoulda, woulda, if only!

POLY, YOU WERE RANKED 2nd IN THE NATION! “yeah, but you caught us between games”…BULLSHHHHTT…YOU WERE RANKED 2ND IN THE NATION!

“yeah, but our number one kicker was out”…BULLSHHHHTTT…YOU WERE RANKED 2ND IN THE NATION! Grant didn’t even have a kicking game…you should’ve slaughtered them!

“yeah, but..this wasn’t our best team”…BULLSHHHHTTT…YOU WERE RANKED 2ND IN THE NATION!

Rewatch the game Poly…listen to the commentator. To run a 3-5 defense….you have to have pure athletes! That’s right! Not just big men…Athletes! Nobody else in the state runs a 3-5…..ONLY THE PRO’S BABY!!!

You people kill me! As for Centennial, DLS and any other Bay area team. Let’s put things into perspective here. Where we come from…it don’t matter what the paper says. You can be number 1 in your paper everyday if you want! There’s a 100 yard field of turf in Del Paso Heights. Quit jack’n jaw on here and go support your school, your coach and your team by calling Grant and putting your money where your mouth is.

By: dez #72

dez #72 — Mon, 29 Dec 2008 08:16:13 +0000

I wouldn’t have been able to pay for the schooling at DLS

By: HAAL Fan

HAAL Fan — Mon, 29 Dec 2008 08:01:59 +0000

Like Cal or SRV … or you know … De La Salle.

By: dez #72

dez #72 — Sun, 28 Dec 2008 23:09:29 +0000

yea my pops grandpa was an all american defensive linemen there in the 50′s,my dad was a all state wide receiver and my cousin Percy Snow was a all state linebacker and all american he went on to be a all american at Michigan State my cousin Raymar Morgan was a all section wide reciever his sophmore year but decided to play basketball and now he is a all american at Michigan State same story with my cousin Eric Snow. the Snows are my cousins by marriage and my little cousin jus made All-Ohio as starting linebacker for the Bulldogs he is only a junior. So ima Bulldog in blood but because of Canton being in the rustbelt my dad was laidoff two years ago and I had to move with my mom out here to cali and if I had better knowledge of cali high school football I prolly would have played for an EBAL school like Cal or SRV.

By: renegades10

renegades10 — Sun, 28 Dec 2008 22:48:01 +0000

now i get it you went to mckinley your first two years explains the fixation on that team.

By: renegades10

renegades10 — Sun, 28 Dec 2008 22:33:22 +0000

I’m happy for Grant and have always said that. I thought you played for a school in HAAL by the way.

By: dez #72

dez #72 — Sun, 28 Dec 2008 12:48:31 +0000

This is what I think of DLS because of the caliber of high school football I’ve played and grew up around and what I think won’t change until they play a midwest or texas power. In my eyes DLS is weak to me that’s what I think. and the CIF commissioners seem to have liked Grant this year they picked them to play in the open division and they won so all you big de la salle crybabies shut up and live with it. Maybe Grant will pop up on the DLS schedule.

By: renegades10

renegades10 — Sun, 28 Dec 2008 10:09:31 +0000

DBP was slaughtered? 17-10? Don’t read you on that one. St. X also beat Prattville in Alabama who has been ranked in the top 10 and is now I believe the 3 time defending 5A state champ. But they are probably weak too. And the team that had D.J. Williams, Kevin Simon, Demetrius Williams, and Matt Guttieriez would lose? How about the 2003 team that was arguably the overall most talented team in the history of DLS. In regards to Grant, your whole argument about DLS being weak was based on them not playing top public schools across the country. It had nothing to do with size or speed. If you put Grant into your original argument they are also weak. I have seen two DLS teams beat LB Poly who was absolutely loaded with players. Ask Kyle or Jimmy about that 2001 Poly team. They were levels more talented and skilled than this years team. Everyone talks about the difference between the 06 and 08 Grant teams. They don’t hold a candle to the difference between the 01 and 08 Poly teams. And what did DLS do? They walked into Poly’s own backyard in 2001 and beat them. And in the rematch the following year, DLS dominated them.

In regards to strength of schedule, well that argument can’t be used any more after this year. Otherwise look at the difference between Grant and DLS’ SOS. Just because a team has a stronger SOS if they don’t get the W is doesn’t matter. It’s all good to say a team is a national power when they are undefeated and ranked in the top 10. But when is the last time those two teams were inside the top ten? DLS is also always ranked in the top 10 when undefeated.

You seem to have a fixation on those two teams. Almost as if Ohio football is the center of the universe. There is much more out there. Dez, you have chosen a year when DLS lost two games by a combined 7 points to two teams who are top 25 nationally one being top five to go out and say that DLS has always been weak. Show me another team who year after year is consistently as good. You are right that this convo shouldn’t really keep going because you still haven’t provided any legit argument to back up your theory that DLS has always been weak.

By: dez #72

dez #72 — Sat, 27 Dec 2008 21:48:32 +0000

mck and massillon both have been to the state championship this decade and have won very tough regions out here they call them sections and DLS just became a nationally known team in the 90′s Mckinley and Massillon started high school football. St.Ignatius Mckinley played every year until 2005 when Canton City Schools joined the federal league(The winningest Public League in Ohio)Massillon is independent so they continue to play ignatius also both mass and mckinleys strength of schedule are at least ten poins stronger then dls and u got it right go ask the old reporters and thy will tell Mck Massillon any year will beat DLS and mck n mass are always national powers and are ranked in the top ten in USA TODAY WHN UNDEFEATED Grant has the size and speed to play along with Cal Poly and there is really no point in goin on with this because DLS will Continue to play popcorns of the National Rankings Don Bosco Prep was slaughtered by an average Cin. St.Xavier team this year and DLS lost to them.

By: renegades10

renegades10 — Sat, 27 Dec 2008 20:21:20 +0000

Ok but McKinley and Massillon aren’t powers anymore. Colerain is the one public school in Ohio I know of that has been consistently good over this last decade. And why is it that you think private schools are weak? They have some of the best football programs in the country. The team that won the Ohio state title this year, St. Ignatius, is a private school. The team they beat in the final is a private school, Elder. Do you consider them weak? To say that Don Bosco Prep and Evangel Christian are weak shows a little bit of ignorance. Ask any of the guys who cover high school football and have for a long time and they will tell you these programs are very, very good and compete at a high level year in and year out. I know that there are some public schools in Florida and Texas that are very good. But there are teams of the same caliber here in California.

Why do you think that Grant is the only team able to compete with the big boys? What are your reasons?