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There’s no football this year for the PAC-12 conference. USC has another QB committed. It isn’t if Clay Helton will get fired, it’s when. If Lashlee’s offense balls out with King at QB, the momentum will be too much to turn down- Garcia will be a cane.
 
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GeraltOfCaneia said:
I fail to see why a conference not having football this season will effect recruits that won't be able to play until next season regardless of where they go
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Just adds to uncertainty. Will they for sure have a 21 season? Are they going to have spring camp for early entries?
 




How does your team look so far, and how do you feel about the prospects of a full season?

“It’s hard to say, through the pandemic, the loss of time, how do you know? We’ve got a talented football team, no question. We’ve got seven players just on offense that have the ability to be all-state. That’s all-preseason. None of that’s entitlement, just potential.

I think Garcia is the best quarterback in the state. He could be one of the best at throwing a football that I’ve coached. He’s going to be a special player. We’ve got a lot of depth at that position. [Jake Garcia, a senior committed to Southern Cal and one of many Valdosta players that he talked up, transferred from a school in California, which postponed football into winter. Garcia just got clearance to practice with the team beginning with tonight’s intrasquad scrimmage.] ...
 
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1992cane said:
There’s no football this year for the PAC-12 conference. USC has another QB committed. It isn’t if Clay Helton will get fired, it’s when. If Lashlee’s offense balls out with King at QB, the momentum will be too much to turn down- Garcia will be a cane.
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How's he getting fired if no football is being played in the Pac 12?
 
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itsacanething said:
Maybe he wants to see what our offense looks like under lashlee before he pulls the trigger.
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If I were him that's what I'd do. With USC in the bag, what does he have to lose? Even though spots are getting short, if Diaz and Lashlee feel he's the one, they'll find a spot for him.

Some of the others on the fence, don't have that option.
 
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theibisrules said:
I just wanna believe he is coming to us.....but I also am cautiously optimistic, could someone else swoop in and nab him? If so, then who?
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I really don’t know.....it was just a chance for me to use the funniest name in college football this year: Chubby Purda.
 
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GeraltOfCaneia said:
I fail to see why a conference not having football this season will effect recruits that won't be able to play until next season regardless of where they go
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“WEAR they go”

Their, fixed it four you.

And +1 for proper usage of “effects”
 
pacusmc said:
My wife has always wanted to go back to nyc.
I’ve always wanted to go back to California.
After this rona and other “things”,
I doubt I leave this state unless I absolutely have to for an unforeseen circumstance.
Long list of people wanting out of both of those places. 2 docs I know that dipped out of nyc as soon as spot was open here. Their words “everyone wants out even specialists”.
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And you have a very sensible state income tax.
 
theathletic.com

The QBs moving from Southern California in search of high school football season

For a handful of QBs looking for more reps or more offers, moving to a state whose fall HS football season is still on is worth the risk.
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Interesting article from the Athletic on the movement out of So California for a couple of QBs.
Here's the part about Jake Garcia:

Garcia, who was supposed to play for La Habra High School (Calif.) this season before moving to Georgia, didn’t exactly need to play football this fall. He’s the No. 37 overall player in the country, on the cusp of five-star status, and the No. 4 pro-style QB prospect in the class of 2021 according to the 247Sports Composite.

Garcia’s status among the nation’s elite prospects is secure whether he plays this fall or not. But he and his father have followed the developments surrounding COVID-19 closely. When La Habra shut down workouts earlier this summer after a freshman football player’s family member tested positive for COVID-19, Randy Garcia figured the CIF would probably push his son’s senior football season to the winter.

“I knew Jake wanted to play,” Randy said. “So we were kind of looking around and seeing which states were going to stay open. So it’s been in the back of our mind for a while.”

Even though Garcia’s blue-chip status is secure, he wants more game reps before he gets to college. He has never played a full high school season. As a freshman at Long Beach Poly (Calif.), he sat behind current Ole Miss quarterback Matt Corral. He transferred to Narbonne High School (Harbor City, Calif.) as a sophomore but had to sit the first five games because of CIF transfer rules. Last November, Garcia’s junior season was cut short when Narbonne was banned from the 2019 and 2020 playoffs for rules violations. So he transferred to La Habra, only to watch the first games of the season be pushed back to January, the month he plans on enrolling at USC.

Garcia brought up moving out of state to his father, who says the mere thought of it stressed him out. If they had to go somewhere, Randy hoped it would be somewhere close, like to a school in Arizona or maybe to powerhouse Bishop Gorman in Nevada. When the CIF made its decision, Randy began to take things seriously.

“I have to give credit to his mom, my wife,” Randy said. “Because she said several times, ‘He needs to play. He needs to play at a big-time program.’ ”

Jake Garcia has always been intrigued by the South. Even though he remains committed to the Trojans, Miami is still making a heavy push to land him. Valdosta, which is 2,300 miles from home in Whittier, Calif., suddenly became an option.

He discussed the move with USC’s coaches, who OK’d the decision and wanted him to get the reps, according to a source within the program. So nine days ago, Garcia and his father, a retired law enforcement officer and former Nebraska quarterback, moved to Valdosta.

“I was a little surprised,” said Valdosta coach Rush Propst, a longtime coach in Alabama and Georgia best known for his time at Hoover High School (Ala.), which was chronicled on the mid-2000s MTV show “Two-A-Days”. “He did his research, I think, on everything. With me, the team and the type of football we play down here. In his mind, if California’s going to do what they’re doing, which I don’t agree with, I applaud him. I applaud his parents for making the move. That’s a long way.”

Garcia will compete with another transfer quarterback, Amari Jones, and last year’s backup, Mike Miller, for Valdosta’s starting job. The trio was still splitting reps as of last week.

“(Garcia’s) got all the tools you want,” Propst said. “We’re just trying to teach him the things you need to do on the next level.”

The Georgia High School Association has set a Sept. 4 start date for the upcoming season, though some counties have postponed fall sports to a later date.

Georgia, which has roughly a quarter of the population of California, has struggled mightily with COVID-19 in its own right and on Monday morning sat tied with Florida as the state with the most cases per 100,000 residents in the last seven days, according to the New York Times’ coronavirus tracker. Although a large chunk of Georgia’s total cases traces back to Atlanta and the densely populated surrounding counties, Lowndes County, where Valdosta is located, has reported a higher rate of cases per 100,000 residents in the past two weeks than either Los Angeles County or Orange County.

Garcia’s grandfather, who was 93 and had underlying health conditions, died earlier this summer after contracting COVID-19. But potential health concerns haven’t caused the family any hesitation about the move.

“It’s always in the back of your mind because they bring it up,” Randy said. “I’m not concerned about it enough to restrict Jake from doing what he wants to do. I’m not going to do that to him. He’s old enough to make his own decisions also.”

Last week the Pac-12, the conference Garcia is slated to play in next year, and the Big Ten decided to cancel the 2020 fall football season with hopes of playing in the spring. Though the Pac-12 and Big Ten decided it was unsafe to play, the SEC seems steadfast with its intentions to play this fall — for the moment, at least — and Garcia has placed himself in the heart of that league’s footprint.

“The South, the Big 12 decided to play, the SEC has decided,” Propst said. “The ACC has decided. High school football in Georgia and Alabama has decided. I just think we’re on a different side of the coin than y’all (California) on the deal.”

Propst said the Valdosta football program had four positive COVID-19 tests this summer, including a coach who tested positive. He said the program checks temperatures twice a day, asks its players questions and sanitizes “like crazy.”

“I think we need football right now more than we ever needed football. I am sensitive to the fact with this virus,” Propst said. “I understand it’s there. I know that it’s killing people. I get that. Our kids, we can go on and have football and keep them safe because we’re taking a lot of precautions.”

Last week, GHSA executive director Robin Hines said the season’s Sept. 4 start date could change based on COVID-19 data. Nearly 70 GHSA schools won’t kick off their season on time because of the pandemic, according to the Atlanta Journal-Constitution.


There is a small paragraph about Miller Moss, too. He apparently considered moving to Hawaii for the season but when they moved their football to January, that was no longer a viable option. It looks like he will concentrate on working out and getting ready to enroll at USC in January.
 
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