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While joking around in the car one day, Diaz suggested Uiagalelei reach out to Full Ride radio show to talk about his decision to commit to Clemson once he made it public. Theres a lot of teams that told us they dont want to play us. (Photo by Scott Rowe/Cronkite News). Now all of a sudden youre beating those guys on a consistent basis and youre gong to be talked about with some of the great teams across the country. HPW: When I look at your roster, youve got a 6-foot-5, 238-pound quarterback whos only a junior (DJ Uiagalei). At St. John Bosco in Bellflower, Calif., head coach Jason Negro has his share of blessings. Uiagalelei returned the sentiment, calling Diaz a father figure. Negro: We ave a ton of respect for Mililani. (Photo by Scott Rowe/Cronkite News). The ride to the top of the MaxPreps Xcellent 25 rankings has been phenomenal. Now, with transfers galore, certain schools keep winning every season, and people want to join the crowd. Negro: I certainly believe that the collegiate level, you can probably be paid more, but theres something to be said about quality of life. So our whole opportunity that we have here at St. John Bosco is to try to get kids to play and to expose them to as many collegiate markets as possible.. Theyve all been to that college level, so you know how to act when they come.. Seriously, though, Negro said he has a crop of six or seven quarterbacks from which to choose. That connection we have with one another is definitely important, Satele said. Chris King has coached on six CIF championship teams over his 30 year coaching career. Coach King has been coaching high school football for 30 years. Negro: Weve got 82. We have our team room, where we watch film. The way private schools are behaving indicates winning matters most. Later in the season, Mitchell was injured, giving backup quarterback D.J. Coach Adams is beginning his 20th year of coaching and his thirteenth with the Braves. (The) culture there was kind of a balance between players being players, coaches not coaching too hard in the sense that you gotta let your guys play, but also it was very detailed, Rosen said after Cardinals practice on Wednesday. The Tigers had Uiagaleleis heart, though, and it was time to make it official. By Logan Newman Its both curious and mysterious how these coaches were running prestigious programs one day, then cleaning out their offices the next. St. John Bosco High Schools football dominance in the past decade is well-documented in the coaches office, especially on head coach Jason Negros desk. His first head coaching stint was at Trabuco Hills for seven years, where his teams went 40-10 in the last five seasons. Hes always hustling back and forth. Im able to be part of a program that allows us to be on the national stage. Negro, 43, is a Bosco alum who jokes that he would never get to play on this team. Well-polished trophies line the room, representing such championships as the Mission Viejo High School Football Classic and the Battle of the Beach. His 39 tackles leads the team, and hes one of six players on the team to have somewhere between 6.0 and 7.0 tackles for loss. Still, Uiagalelei had to go through the process of getting to know schools and talking to their coaches. No. As a prep player, Mia was selected 2nd Team All-Mission League and went on to play at Long Beach City College. HPW: I know most high school coaches dream about working at the next level, but even then, maybe theres nothing quite like coaching at this level, with this kind of support. 82 players at an all-boys school with total enrollment of 850 through four grade levels. By the time he was a senior at Bosco, he was in his third year and second full season as the starting signal caller. Were all brothers. Others include former NFL wide receiver Bryce Treggs and cornerback Leon McFadden. In 2011, St. John Bosco proved he was right. After coming back to Bosco in 2010, where the administration had rededicated itself to athletic successes, Negro quickly assembled a huge staff of the best people hed worked with along the way. Coach Diaz and his wife Sandra are parents to daughter Danielle, a graduate from Cal Poly Pomona, and to ten year old Makena. So it's just a new exciting program up and coming and he wanted to be a part of it.". Negro: George is a three-year running back, two-year starter. It was competitive. Jason Negro from Trabuco Hills/St.John Bosco, Re: Jason Negro from Trabuco Hills/St.John Bosco, Tweets from https://twitter.com/OCConnect/lists/hs-football. All I am is an educator. (Saying) that youve got kids going to, you know, six Ivy League schools over the last four years in your program says a whole lot. 1 ranking. Shes like: I wonder who hes going to root for.. He took over a program in 2010 that hadnt had a winning season in the Trinity League since 2004. The show had become a go-to listen on the ride to school. He has a lot of faith in his players. Hes ranked #1 in the country in both junior and senior classes. 2 teams facing off, Negro recognizes that its just one regular season game in a long semester full of regular season games. Thousands of miles and three time zones away from the Upstate of South Carolina, the Diaz family will be rooting on Uiagalelei, who Diaz now considers like a son. 2 in the USA Today Super 25.). Keep an eye out; the junior doesnt have any offers from colleges, per 247 Sports.

He led the Braves to their first ever playoff appearance. Would love to watch it. Theyve got a lot of weapons. No one cares that he won a section title five seasons ago and got the Celts into the Pac-5 final in 2007. We believe in being a brotherhood. You were right, Coach. We were able to take the talent that was here, bring some more talent in and get everyone excited about it. Im always about trying to help somebody out if its possible, so I was like sure, lets try it, said Diaz, who had offered the same help to another player in the past. We flipped it on them.. Im not afraid, Im not worried. A school spokesman refused to allow me to ask Principal Frank Kozakowski a single question about Kearins resignation five years after his first team won a Division I title. First and foremost, I guarantee you when we do open our season we will throw a quarterback out there; he will be playing, so were not going to leave that position vacant. If this rivalry has turned into a battle of the quarterbacks, Friday nights game is in keeping with that theme, pitting 247 Sports No. %link% All rights reserved. Coach Lo also serves as the head strength and conditioning coach for the Braves. Where everyone's entitled to an opinion, no matter how wrong it may be. Before moving to South Carolina in 2021, she covered high school sports for six years and received a first-place award in the sports feature category from the Texas Associated Press Managing Editors in 2019. Required fields are marked *, The St. John Bosco Braves ran onto the field prior to playing Saint Louis in 2014 at Aloha Stadium. Jonathan is married to his beautiful wife, Julie, and resides in Huntington Beach. It was just something that, in its own way, was a cute thing, Diaz recalled. We had Josh Rosen as our quarterback when we played Saint Louis and Tua (Tagovailoa) was a sophomore, and Coach York and his team are very impressive. A former St. John Bosco assistant, Jason Negro, the head coach at Mission Viejo Trabuco Hills, has taken over for Mendoza. What neither realized at the time was that surreal day in May marked the beginning of the end of their carpooling tenure. Those are some of the things that I think that people really don't understand. But at what cost? 1 spot in the final national rankings, it proved an easy choice. The winner wont be crowned champion of the league Friday. St Louis looked good vs. a very overrated Narbonne team who didnt beat anybody decent on its way to their 3rd tier CA state title last year. St Louis would be a better match up for SJB, but not enough juice across the board to pull out the W. As for my beloved Big Red, I can only go on what weve seen so far; and based on that, Big Red O would have a very tough time against the SJB D; Big Red D would hang a little longer, but not enough. I couldnt imagine what it would be like to be a baseball coach or a track and field coach who are just getting ready to start their seasons and really get into the swing of things, and all of a sudden the rug is pulled out from underneath them, Negro said. Coach Negro holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in Liberal Studies from California State University, Dominguez Hills. Bosco and Negro have used every advantage to create something special and they should be lauded by high school football programs everywhere for doing it their own way. Jason Negro, originally from Bellflower, CA, is a St. John Bosco High School graduate from the class of 1991. Jason Negro, St. John Bosco (Bellflower, Calif.) Prior to Negro taking over at St. John Bosco in 2010, the Braves rarely won 10 games, let alone a Trinity League title, a state championship or a national No. Its certainly disappointing, Negro said, when asked how COVID-19 is affecting his teams eye on the 2020 season. While Diaz was taking calls from his wife, Uiagalelei would often get calls from his younger brother, Matayo. Kickoff is scheduled for 8 p.m. and the game will be broadcast on SportsNet LA. One call included a school, which Diaz kept confidential, singing happy birthday to Uiagalelei on his birthday. St. John Bosco High School players stood in the Mater Dei visitors locker room. So before I talk about what my feelings are in terms of our football program and our spring practice and how thats going to affect us moving into the fall, I have to say that Im very, very saddened for the current 2020 seniors and the spring sports athletes who were unable to finish their seasons.. They're not getting rich off it, but this isn't a gimmick. Theres so much more pride in our school because were able to compete with some of the best programs in the country. Ten years into the program, Bosco coaches expect this level of talent to come out of it. He not only won the hearts and minds of the players, but the parents as well. Bosco put a running clock on Cen10. They watched how Jason conducted himself on the field and talked to the parents in the stands gathering information on him. The official school website lists 32 members of the staff from coaches to trainers and student managers. Schools are closed for the academic year, and spring sports are shut down as the state continues to adhere to shelter-in-place restrictions. Not a bad record. Rosen led Bosco to the teams first CIF championship his junior year. Coach King is an Esperanza High School graduate and is the sole owner of a real estate appraisal company located in Orange County. Bosco has about 20 D1 players and they rotate 8 DL. 1 rankings by MaxPreps and USA Today. He happily traded in gobs of hotel points and airline miles to return to cover UCLA basketball and football in the summer of 2016. Thanks for telling us what the story above already told us about DJ & Alabama, this coach coaches 100 percent of the timegets maybemaybe 10,000a monthmost of his coaches is on campus teachersand coachesBRAND NEW STADIUM!! A lot of his criticism has come from him asking questions and things like that and challenging coaches. This is Robs ninth season with the Braves and he coaches the linebackers at the varsity level. Kids have been working out on their own, theyve been doing the things that weve expected them to do, said Negro, whose team would have started spring practice Monday, April 20. Its pretty odd to say that you think that a loss is the one that actually was the defining moment, but when you take a look at the way that 2010 game went, we really, legitimately had an opportunity to win, Negro said. I enjoy being a person who has an opportunity to work with all these cultures. Johnson coached with Negro at Trabuco Hills and also serves as the head strength and conditioning coach. The Celts didnt make the playoffs the last two seasons, so hes banished. I still havent figured out what really happened to Jeff Kearin at Loyola. StLouis #! You always on their N**Z.

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Steele has six passes defended and 17 tackles this season. He knew as soon as he saw the Bosco facility in 2010 that the weight room approach needed a facelift. I remember bringing Trabuco Hills to Bosco lineman challenges and winning every single event.. Most importantly, the relationship with the students at St. John Bosco is what drives the position, as the mission is to continue to work under the umbrella of Salesian Educational values. He acknowledged it wont be easy to determine the starter because of what could be very limited in-person assessment time. Coach Negro has also coached at Trabuco Hills High School and helped lead the Mustangs to the CIF Southwest Division Championship Game against La Mirada at Anaheim Stadium in 2009. Farias Senior Classic, Mufi Hannemann Jamboree this weekend, Grit is golden for state-tournament semifinalists, Grit and growth: Moanalua's upset win over Mililani, Kamehameha completes girls basketball D-I state-tourney field, All that drama: the ILH's basketball tiebreaker maze. Hes an incredible athlete with strong bloodlines. Theyre from every Power 5 conference, ranging from West Coast programs like UCLA and USC to such far-away schools as Clemson and Georgia, as well as top-tier academic institutions, including Harvard and Brown. Too bad theyre not showing the game on FS. The teenagers are still learning, growing and maturing. Mililani setting up a home and away with Bosco. After attending Long Beach State and creating the first full sports page at the Union Weekly Newspaper, he adopted Long Beach as his home town and is a member of the Long Beach Century Club, where he is a two-time winner of the Keith Cordes Award for best promotion of the city through sports. In 2015, St. John Bosco was taking on Bishop Amat during the state semifinals when Diaz noticed what he thought was a high school student.
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