If you think all of the CIF Southern Section’s recent rulings that have made high school football players athletically ineligible are interesting, you ain’t seen nothin’ yet.
Basketball season starts in a couple of months.
Boys basketball is the hotbed for high school sports transfers. Girls basketball, too, has plenty of transfer activity. In boys basketball, jumping schools is almost as common as the jump shot.
So far this football season, which still is in its first half, we’ve seen 19 players — all transfers — at Bishop Montgomery lose their eligibility because of rule violations, and Millikan lost eight players for the same reason.
This is the confluence of three actions: the Southern Section is taking a longer and deeper look at transfer candidates; the transfer paperwork being turned in by conniving parents is atrociously poor, with mistakes slipping past athletic administrators with a weak handle on CIF-SS regulations and bylaws; and now social media is making it more difficult to keep secrets secret.
So far, Orange County football has not been hit. But our inbox suggests that might change.
CIF-SS commissioner Mike West declined to comment this week on transfer rulings and any changes the Southern Section office has made in dealing with transfers. He is saving that for his “Commissioner’s Message” that will be published at the Southern Section website – cifss.org – next week.
That forum will provide him the best way to clearly and completely state what approach the CIF-SS office is making these days when it comes to validating or invalidating transfers, and to explain any new methods the Southern Section is employing to verify if a transfer adhered to CIF-SS regulations and bylaws.
Usually, the “Commissioner’s Message” is an innocuous collection of thanking corporate sponsors, praise of how well the latest playoff system is working, maybe a safety-related reminder or two, and stuff like that.
Next week’s “Commissioner’s Message” promises to be a lot more interesting, one that will be a must-read for athletic directors and coaches. Especially for the coaches in the sport with the big orange ball.
NOTES
Loyola running back Sean Morris looks for hole in Leuzinger defense during nonleague Football game Friday Sept. 13, 2024 (Photo by Robert Casillas, Contributing Photographer)• The sit-out period ends Sept. 29 for football players who transferred but did not make a verified change of residence that would have granted immediate athletic eligibility. Among the impact transfers who will be eligible after Sept. 29 is Orange Lutheran senior running back Sean Morris II, a Northwestern commit who rushed for 1,762 yards and 16 touchdowns last season at Loyola. He would be available to play Oct. 3 in Orange Lutheran’s Trinity League opener against Mater Dei. …
• The South Coast Tournament is underway in boys water polo, and as always it has some mighty teams. The top seven teams in the CIF-SS rankings are in it, including Nos. 1-2-3-4 — Santa Margarita, Corona del Mar, Newport Harbor and JSerra. The championship game is Saturday at 4:05 p.m. at Newport Harbor High. …
• The Durango Fall Classic girls volleyball tournament is this weekend in Las Vegas. Among the 64 teams in it are CIF-SS No. 1-ranked Sierra Canyon, No. 2 Redondo Union, No. 3 Harvard-Westlake and No. 4 Newport Harbor. Also there from Orange County are Huntington Beach, Los Alamitos and Mater Dei and San Diego County’s Cathedral Catholic and Torrey Pines. …
• The Woodbridge Classic cross country meet at Great Park in Irvine has athletes representing 500 schools, including Orange County standout girls teams JSerra and Trabuco Hills and county boys teams Beckman, El Toro and San Clemente. The Woodbridge Classic course is basically flat, so with that and ongoing advancements in shoe technology plus the high quality of runners, the times will be eye-popping. The marquee races are on Saturday, the Bob Day’s Girls Sweepstakes scheduled for 9:34 p.m. followed by the Doug Speck’s Boys Sweepstakes. …
• Major League Baseball will ban its teams officials from watching high school senior and junior players or collecting data on them from Oct. 15 to Jan. 15 as part of its “Amateur Recovery Period Policy.” MLB stated the intention is to “alleviate the pressure on young players to forego rest and recovery, curb overuse, and keep players healthier as they strive for a future in professional baseball.” Reporters and broadcast people often overlook the excess offseason pitching of teenagers when they’re trying to figure out why there are so many arm injuries among MLB pitchers. …
• Starting with the 2027 season, baseball’s first base will be twice the size it has been. That is, half of the baseball will be in fair territory, the other half in foul territory. This is to prevent collisions at first base, and also to make that runner’s lane in foul territory actually mean something because no right-handed batter when leaving the box ever enters that running lane. …
• The foul territory half of the double-sized base will be painted non-white, to distinguish it from the fair territory half to simplify fair ball-foul ball calls. I suggested to the CIF Southern Section office via email that the foul-territory part of the double-sized base should be painted in psychedelic colors with a unicorn on it. The reply was “LOL” which I think means “Lots of Likeliness.”
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