Wednesday, August 27, 2025
We enjoyed a grand meeting today with our longtime financial adviser, Gary DeBuiser, who also was a crafty first baseman on the league championship freshman baseball team that I coached at Thousand Oaks High School H.S. back in 1972.
In a nutshell, we are staving off moving to the poorhouse and their renowned gruel for at least another year!
YAHOO!
With these glad tidings in tow, I gleefully headed to the evening's Pop Warner football practice for Jacob and his Camarillo Stingers Blue mates.
Pre-practice, Jacob working on his
long snapping skills
Jacob, on the far right, at DE
battling with his OT friend, Joey
Jacob now in a WR vs. DB
Stalk Blocking Drill
A WR here, I think that his hands are much too wide.
Jacob now employing a double hand
swipe technique . . .
. . . which efficiently got him
past this blocker . . .
. . . and a good finish to the drill
making a tackle
Another rep, this time
working a high . . .
. . . too low technique . . .
. . . combined with another
solid finishing tackle
Playing DE in a somewhat strange
scrimmage situation
This scrimmage went on for about half an hour consisting of 11 Offensive players vs. just two Defensive Ends and a Free Safety.
The outmanned three Defensive players never subbed out as the Offense somehow surprisingly ran and passed at will.
Jacob got a ton of opportunities to improve both his techniques and conditioning during this period to be sure.
Jacob beating the OT and making
a play on this ball carrier
Beating the OT by using
his speed and quickness . . .
. . . turning the corner trying to
pressure the QB
Unfortunately, the quick passing game is hard to pressure.
But it doesn't mean you can't
try to get to the QB on the next rep!
Jacob had a solid practice tonight. I am ever so proud of his efforts and mental toughness on a nightly basis.
First game for the Camarillo Stingers Senior Blue team is this coming Saturday night at Camarillo H.S. against the North Valley Bears. Kickoff is slated for 6:00 p.m.
College football notes . . .
Interesting Top Five that
includes all of the usual suspects
The Washington Huskies enter the 2025 season ranked #25 on this list with 781 all-time wins.
Of the West Coast teams on this list, the Huskies only trail USC whose 882 all-time victories ranks them #12 on the list.
The upcoming Labor Day weekend hosts a slew of interesting college football games.
These are just the televised college
games on view tomorrow
I will miss most of these games as I have opted to head into Los Angeles to watch a couple of high school games on Thursday.
With Monday being the Labor Day holiday, the Los Angeles Unified School District has decided not go hold school on Friday either to now make it a four day weekend.
Thus all of the C.I.F.-Los Angeles City Section schools are playing their football games on Thursday this week.
This opened up a myriad of games for me to watch. Thanks to some unusual starting times, a doubleheader is on tap for me on Thursday.
My first game of a twi-night doubleheader
Grant H.S. Lancers (0-1)
at
Los Angeles Romans (0-0)
Kickoff at 4:00 p.m.
The Reason Behind My Choice:
Los Angeles H.S. is the oldest public high school in Southern California having been founded in 1873. As a result, I just want to see what this venerable campus looks like.
By the way, Loyola H.S., a private Catholic high school, is the oldest high school in SoCal having first opened its doors in 1865.
The nightcap
Lawndale H.S. Cardinals (1-0)
at
Roosevelt H.S. Roughriders (0-1)
Kickoff at 4:00 p.m.
The Reason Behind My Choice:
As a child growing up, we first lived in East Los Angeles in a home where the ground floor housed my Father's medical practice. The local public high school was indeed, Theodore Roosevelt H.S. and their vaunted Rough Riders athletic teams.
Even when my Father moved to suburban San Marino, he would take me on house calls and hospital visits that often took us by Roosevelt H.S., which I quietly dreamed of attending one day.
It was not meant to be but on Thursday, after 78 years, I'll finally at least attend my first ever Roosevelt football game.
It should make for an interesting day of Thursday Night Lights!
Wish me luck.
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