Comments on: Logan’s Warren Miles Long commits to Northwestern

By: moreaufan2

moreaufan2 — Sat, 21 Jul 2012 06:21:49 +0000

Yep!!!!!!!

By: BigDog

BigDog — Thu, 12 Jul 2012 19:28:12 +0000

Is this Russell White from Cal fame?

By: moreaufan2

moreaufan2 — Thu, 12 Jul 2012 15:37:42 +0000

Hey I hear that Russell White is the new OAL comissioner, any idea who takes over at Castlemont??????????????

By: bug

bug — Mon, 09 Jul 2012 07:44:16 +0000

Congrats to the young man. I remember him back in the days with the uc colts, dude was a beast.

By: I see you

I see you — Sat, 07 Jul 2012 07:22:14 +0000

Perkin,

You never answered my question. With all of the athletes that Oakland has, how come there are no football offers yet?

By: Moreaufan2

Moreaufan2 — Fri, 06 Jul 2012 20:41:47 +0000

Wow, they only have to pay 800 buck per school if they go NCS??? if thats the truth then it would be a no brainer. The commish didnt do anything anyway but mess things up from the way i heard things!!

By: BigDog

BigDog — Fri, 06 Jul 2012 20:24:04 +0000

Mabey they should level it like Detroit and put in some farms.

By: EBfootball

EBfootball — Fri, 06 Jul 2012 20:07:06 +0000

Several things about the OAL:
1) There is no commissioner right now so Oakland will have to hire someone at $70,000 a year or pay about $800 per school for NCS dues. That’s more than $60,000 that could go to equipment, etc instead of an unnecessary commissioner.

2) Bill Gates gave Oakland high schools about 30 million dollars several years back and nothing changed so he decided not stop giving Oakland money (google it).

3) Students get promoted to the next grade no matter how poor they perform, misbehave, or attend class prior to high school in Oakland so when they get to high school there’s a good chance they have a very poor work ethic. I teach middle school in Oakland so I know. You can see how this can easily translate to sports. Unless a kid is an angel, has great parenting, or graced by god with with good sense it’s pretty easy to fail at anything in the Oakland schools.

By: ManDown

ManDown — Fri, 06 Jul 2012 19:43:19 +0000

I highly doubt that joining NCS will change the problem the OAL has with sports. Comparing any Oakland school to a SoCal school is insane because SoCal has the nations second largest city in the nation. Therefore they have much more to choose from. Alumni and Raiders step up? They always have donated whatever they can to the OAL and still do to this day. There is a bigger problem that obviously most aren’t aware of.

By: YoMama

YoMama — Fri, 06 Jul 2012 19:41:54 +0000

Oh Boy, thanks for your info- what would you do to fix the OAL issues to shore up the football teams?
You said they supply rides, how do the players get to school in the morning- coaches?
Try running pratices after school or is that because coaches have 9-5′s?
Didn’t knock coaches, don’t you believe the OAL commish and school admin help solve these problems?
Why does Crenshaw have a great system? Alumni, parents, fundraising, all on the same page.
Do you want to accept the present situation or improve it?
Makes no diff how many div-1 players, how about all the other players- should not they enjoy sports in their high school years?
Here’s a good solution, hit up some local merchants or Oakland companies and put on a players meal 3 days a week after practice?
About the NCS, they would get the shaft in scheduling and eligbility? You’re either eligable or not.
I hear a lot of cant’s, how about some solutions before the season starts? Does the OAL commish have any board meetings to solve some of these issues?
Seems like the opinion is to fix the problem as it breaks, not solve the problem.
Their isn’t a region or section that’s having the OAL type problems in California.