Comments on: Wade in as coach at Dublin

By: DEBI ANDERSON

DEBI ANDERSON — Mon, 11 Apr 2011 06:40:04 +0000

Wade will be missed by many of the Miramonte Football Players, Families and Community. He is a great coach and has inspired many MHS Football Players in his 9 years of coaching the Mats! And Yes, living 5 minutes from home, when you work and think Football 24/7, will be wonderful for his loving wife and small children! The MHS Football players LOVED him! He is a Fun, a focused to Win Coach….and Dublin is Lucky to get him! Schram will be a Great Coach at Miramonte..he knows the Game, the Players, the Orinda Culture, the Families…and is highly respected by everyone!!

By: Chs101214

Chs101214 — Fri, 01 Apr 2011 17:23:31 +0000

EBF re #20. Remember it was only 2004 that DA fb took out SPSV opening round and made the AA semis vs. Campo in a 99 point(!) slugfest. Ironically, only a few years later, their best baseball player (now at Cal) since Timmy Wallace and Sean Farley were all East Bay first teamers, transferred his senior year to …. Campo.
The demographics and evolvement of youth sports in the May Valley have contributed vastly to challenges at DA. The WCCUSD bond measure to fully rebuild the campus is years old, but construction stalled for economic reasons. Without a gym for two years, sadly the hoops teams suffered, with the girls abandoning their season midway this year. Unlike let’s say SRV’s gym plight, getting those kids to Crespi Jr High was a struggle- no drivers, monies for busses, etc.
There is hope. The fb complex is done & the baseball field’s inaugural season is underway and both facilities are top notch. Prior to 2009, the natural “grass” fb field and gravel-granite track was an orthopedist’s good friend.
The challenge is greatest with youth feeder programs. The El Sobrante Boys Club in the 60′s-80′s under the leadership of Grover Harris and his son Chuck, both of whom worked tirelessly for the kids, fed DA and even PV with a constant stream of talented hoops, baseball and (flag) football athletes. Those programs have fizzled. The Steelers send a few- very few- players on to DA but mostly it feeds EC, Richmond/Kennedy and Berkeley, while WC Spartans feed PV and Herc. Many of their stars end up at Salesian and Concord. Every once in a while, a five star like Eli Holman will stay home in the publics…at times with great risk, in many ways.
There’s hope. The new buildings are currently having beams welded and the gym should be ready in the fall. The coaches and players are very grateful for equipment donations and funds as it is very apparent discretionary income- miniscule as it is- is going to infrastructure in West County.

By: Phillip Jones

Phillip Jones — Fri, 01 Apr 2011 15:59:16 +0000

Dublin offered Murphy 3 times before they offered to Wade, they wanted Murphy and rumor has it they could only get him a jr high teaching job. What deal did they get for wade?

By: George Manley

George Manley — Fri, 01 Apr 2011 05:32:56 +0000

EBfootball….I don’t think that Moreno had a whole lot to work with while at Dublin….Like any school you get what you get…Some times that Talent just isn’t there….Wade is coming to Dublin at the right time…plus its close to home..

By: EBfootball

EBfootball — Thu, 31 Mar 2011 17:11:40 +0000

Looks like the De Anza job is open now too. Someone please save that school.

By: EBfootball

EBfootball — Wed, 30 Mar 2011 05:02:53 +0000

Anyone have an opinion why there wasn’t success at Dublin under Moreno even though he handled business at Hayward when the HAAL was very strong?

By: eastbayfbfan

eastbayfbfan — Wed, 30 Mar 2011 03:38:08 +0000

wade went 3-7 one year. other than that he has missed playoffs once. he will have dublin contending by 2013 or earlier.

By: George Manley

George Manley — Tue, 29 Mar 2011 23:54:17 +0000

Wade may have walked away from yet another DFAL championship team for 2011 season…. who has a very good JV team to feed off form the 2010 season….BUT….Dublin also has a very good JV team to feed off plus enough from the 2010 season to make a difference…..The gaels should win more then five games….And between now and the football season…there should be some transfers that may make a difference and with the chemstry that Wade puts into his teams….Dublin is going to surprise the DFAL and their preseason opponets….

By: ManDown

ManDown — Tue, 29 Mar 2011 20:31:10 +0000

Alameda and Albany’s head coaches were shown the door while Bryan left for a “Better Opportunity”.

By: ManDown

ManDown — Tue, 29 Mar 2011 20:29:42 +0000

Wade is an excellent coach and who can doubt that? His resume proves that he wins and has rings to back it up. It don’t get better than that for a school like Dublin.