Comments on: East Bay prep football recap: Campolindo perfect; Logan, Salesian next?

By: Patrick

Patrick — Tue, 08 Nov 2011 06:07:58 +0000

Coming out with a few losses from preseason, but turning that into experience for playoffs can play dividends for teams. Cardinal Newman last year swept with two bad losses to powerhouses and a heartbreaker to Rancho Cotate. If Berkeley has had a similar go around, it could really do a lot for them. It’s not how you begin a season, it’s how you finish it.

By: gomats

gomats — Tue, 08 Nov 2011 05:31:18 +0000

I gotta say that miramonte isnt near as good as you think. We won’t beat Marin Catholic Cardinal Newman Encinal and I frankly would only want to go back to campo to seriously hurt some of their players. I cant see a championship game other than Marin Catholic vs Cardinal Newman. Although I would like to point out the fact that these two schools are clearly recruting on some level as they are all-boys catholic schools….

By: djgaucho

djgaucho — Tue, 08 Nov 2011 01:59:30 +0000

Also my sleepers are Ec and Bod though ec is very young this year lot of sophmores and juniors but look the hell out for these 2 teams

By: djgaucho

djgaucho — Tue, 08 Nov 2011 01:56:38 +0000

yowl I’m loving this D3 chatter lots of good teams in this bracket and everybody is making a lot of sense but does anybody see any upset specials of any of the top teams maybe losing in the first or second round?who are some teams under the radar that might surprise in the playoffs?……….also im not so much looking at a teams wins and loses as much as SOS in so far making a deep run in playoffs Berkeley for example has 3 loses but played a brutal schedule early and you see that paying off now late in the season,you wonder about the teams who played soft schedules now that its playoff time.

By: MiraMan

MiraMan — Tue, 08 Nov 2011 00:36:30 +0000

Miramonte got beat bad by Campo and I’m not going to try to defend that. Campo painted a masterpiece and I just had to sit back and admire it. I think the big indicator to me was how Miramonte would come back after such a defeat.

What no one is mentioning is that Miramonte destroyed Dublin worse than anyone else (OK, except Campo). 34-0 right after halftime. What better statement could they make against a respectable D2 team! Frankly, that was the best game Miramonte has played…including the Las Lomas game. Now you guys will tell me that Dublin isn’t any good…blah, blah blah. Same old stuff.

Sometimes a loss is what you need to get you going. We’ll see if that’s the case here.

By the way, Campo is for real and has the potential to suprise some of the elite teams like maybe CN and MC – not saying they will beat them, but I like the match-ups. I acutally think Encinal, O’Dowd and Novato are the teams that they match-up poorly with.

The kids at Miramonte would love to play Campo again, but I don’t want the two DFAL teams playing each other in an early round. I’d prefer to see how each does against other elite teams.

By: FNL fan

FNL fan — Tue, 08 Nov 2011 00:02:17 +0000

Reggie,
I wouldn’t judge Miramonte by one bad game. The Campo-Mira rivalry is a huge one. Campo showed up and played their best game of the year. This is one of the great things about football is the match ups and the preparation that goes into each week’s games. The CN and MC teams are probably loaded with lots of talent but they will have to play their best games in order to make it to the championship game. Las Lomas was able to play a very close game with Marin Catholic last season and LL was an average team, point being that any of the top Div. 3 teams can play a great game and beat a higher rated team.

By: Reggie Hammond

Reggie Hammond — Mon, 07 Nov 2011 22:37:05 +0000

what’s changed from last season to make you think they can beat cardinal newman now? wasnt the clock running in the 4th against campolindo?

By: FB Guru

FB Guru — Mon, 07 Nov 2011 22:19:51 +0000

I would think Miramonte would luv a 6th seed, gives them a path to state, beat an undefeated Campo and avenge their only loss, beat an undefeated (once tied) CN, win the championship against undefeated MC. Beat three consecutive undefeated teams and you should have the inside track to state.

By: Oh boy

Oh boy — Mon, 07 Nov 2011 21:18:49 +0000

I like Encinal-O’Dowd. Nickerson will have to coach his a** off for that.

Does Mira want a Campo rematch? They should want to avoid MC, CN, and Encinal as long as possible. “Better the devil you know than the devil you dont” is how I see it.

By: Reggie Hammond

Reggie Hammond — Mon, 07 Nov 2011 21:03:38 +0000

I hope Encinal gets a 8 or 9 seed. That should do enough to fire that team up to make an impact. I hope they get EC or Miramonte the 2nd round.

FB Guru points are not part of the criteria. How many times do you have to be told that. If they were then Miramonte would be out of the top 8. They were 15 in the Bay Area until they got crushed by Campo now they aren’t ranked.