BOD beating up on Las Lomas should be expected as Miroglio may be the best QB in the east bay this season along with Stephens of Campolindo. Interestingly, UCLA gets two outstanding east bay QB’s committed to play baseball in 2013.

The biggest surprise for me was Dublin defeating San Leandro. Perhaps I am living in the past regarding the glory that was San Leandro football, my how they have fallen. Still, give credit to a strong Dublin team who just may have enough to force their way into the discussion of the top team in the DFAL Athis season.

Campolindo still looks to be in the driver’s seat in the DFAL until someone knocks them off. One game I will not miss is the Campo/El Cerrito game; should be a good one.

Have to laugh at the issue of Moraga vs Orinda and which school an aspiring athlete might choose. I took the liberty of checking out a copy of the Campolindo student directory; out of nearly 1400 students, 36 are from the city of Orinda. 17 of those are freshman. Since 60 kids from Orinda Intermediate School came to Campo this fall, apparently 43 of them are Moraga students. Don’t know what it all means but it appears redandblue2 may be right. I know they have open enrollment in the Acalanes School District but it appears only 2.5% of Orinda students attend Campolindo. Sorry, I don’t have the number of Moraga students attending Miramonte.

Unbelievable…….you just don’t get it do you?

From your post in #10 above,

….”so this has and will continue to take some good athletes from Miramonte”……

The fact is there are no athletes of note in the graduating classes of 2012, 2013 & 2014 at Campolindo that live in Orinda, period. Your attempts at minimizing the accomplishments of Campolindo and crying about how Campo took away athletes from Miramonte just ain’t so. The fact you don’t even mention the number of Moraga athletes who attended Miramonte (remember the NCS winning girl’s soccer team – graduating class of 2010 – many of those girls lived in Moraga) is just laughable. How about Katie Evans star of the Miramonte Basketball team in 2008; a Moraga resident.

Regarding this year’s freshman class, this is the largest number of students ever who are attending Campo from OIS. As I’m sure you are quite aware, most of these kids live in Moraga, not Orinda. I’m certain most of them are choosing Campo for academic reasons but I would be naive to say that some of these (Orinda) kids aren’t coming for sports reasons.

Bottom line is, I was only referring to the current junior & senior (and last year’s) class, not the incoming freshman.

Enough of this nonsense, let’s get back to talking football.

Impressive win for Dublin. Depressing loss for Las Lomas. I guess I could be wrong on both counts, that is, thinking Las Lomas is the superior DFAL team and thinking Dublin would be the unachiever. It’s doubly embarrassing for me since I also predicted San Leandro would be second in WACF and now it looks like they could be in the cellar below Castro Valley AND Hayward!

Long season to go though so I’m not ready to hand any crown over to Dublin just yet.

Redandblue2,

I think the clinical definition of a “dumbass” is a person that stares directly at facts that contradict their position, but they continue to argue the point. I wasn’t name calling, I was merely making a clinical assessment of your condition!

Out of 300 kids graduating from OIS, 60 are going to Camplindo! That’s 20% of the total incoming population of Miramonte that won’t be going to Miramonte, but will instead be going to Campo! Out of those 60 I personally know several that play sports. As they are teenage girls, I don’t think it would be wise for me to pass on their names and addresses.

If OIS graduates 300 kids for 4 years and they all go to Mira, Mira will have a student population of around 1200; a D3 school. If 60 of those kids go to Campo every year, as this year, Mira will have a student population of 960; basically a D4 school! How one could imply that sports programs would be unaffected is beyond logic. But I would have to confess that I don’t keep a database on student athletes and their city location.

The defense has a long way to go however, especially the secondary. They have a few more weeks to work out the kinks before El Cerrito comes to town.

I ran into former Miramonte coach Floyd Burnsed after the Marin Catholic game and he was genuinely impressed with the Mats effort against MC. “Anderson performed well at QB and the defense held a highly regarded offense in check for most of the game”. He was too classy to say if there were coaching mistakes made or that he would have found a way to win the game.

Miraman, its pointless to argue with someone who can’t answer my simple questions. Further, resorting to name calling is rather childish, don’t you think.

I was impressed with Miramonte last night. No question they were beaten but they held up well to a very, very good team. congrats to MC.