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“Love it When a Plan Comes Together”
February 1, 2021
Governor Newsom Making Moves
Not a Single California HS FB Player Named to All-American Team, Why?
Los Angeles - Being a fan of conspiracy theories takes a lot effort and a big imagination. You think some 40 years ago in Catalina that Natalie Wood was really just moving the dinghy because it was making noise banging against the yacht Splendour? With her husband soon to star in a TV series where he solves murders with a new wife and another actor who would soon star in “The Dead Zone”? Think again.
So, perhaps the state of affairs in my home state is an elaborate plan to return us to the top of college football. Hear me out: What if there is method to the madness of the haphazard “Stay at Home” policies that California Governor Gavin Newsom has turned off and on, and in turn effectively cancelled a high school football season in California?
The apparent “lack of a real plan” resulted in not a single from player the Golden State selected for the “2020 MaxPreps High School All-American Team”, the first time in history that the most competitive state in the union did not have a representative on the team. Maybe this was a way to keep our football players in state. If the SEC coaches who have been stealing our boys away don’t know who they are, how will they recruit them?
I mean, this past January 24th, Californians were able to point with pride to the fact that in the AFC and NFC championship games, three of the four starting quarterbacks were from California. But as of today, we don’t even have a single All-American in the whole state. Very clever Gavin, very clever.
Combine that with the fact that Larry Scott, who has basically destroyed Pac-12 football and basketball as commissioner the past 11 years, will be moving on from his position. Maybe now the Pac-12 can get a decent TV deal.
Could the crafty G-man have “cooked up” the Scott departure over dinner? The Pac-12 offices in San Francisco are a mere 50 miles away from “The French Laundry” in Yountville. Did Newsom risk it all at a maskless dinner for the sake of California retuning to glory in collegiate football?
Maybe we need to rethink the recall after all.
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