One big question for Amat this week is who will start at quarterback? This is what we have, and we may have something different in a few years, but this is what you have now so you embrace it and I’m just glad we’re in the playoffs and playing in Week 11.” You will always have groups happy and unhappy and I have my feelings on what I think works best but it doesn’t matter. “There is no system that comes out where everyone goes ‘yes, this is it.’ There is nothing going to come out where everything is fair. We’re looking for something that doesn’t exist and we keep knocking on doors looking for it and it isn’t there.” “We’re searching for the Holy Grail and you’re not going to find it.
“I think it’s a lesson for all of us,” Hagerty said of the new playoff format. Hagerty has seen playoff divisions created in several different ways over the years, and he isn’t sure he likes or dislikes the current one the CIF-SS is using. “You watch them on film and it’s like, ‘oh wow, everyone plays hard and everyone is connected.’ Nobody seems to do their own thing, so they’re not in this division by chance, they deserve to be here and we have to be ready for them or we can go home early.” Not just great effort, but fanatical effort. “They’re extremely well coached and play with great effort. “I am not going to allow our team or our coaching staff to look beyond this team, because they’re going to come to battle on Friday, I can guarantee you that,” Hagerty said. In 2019, Yorba Linda was in the Division 5 playoffs and lost a quarterfinal against St. The Mustangs, after having an outstanding regular season, have to play their first-round playoff game on the road, and against a team in a tougher division that it has been in during previous seasons. Hagerty recognizes that Yorba Linda might be one of those teams entering the football playoffs with a chip on its shoulder.
It also has an impressive 23-3 victory over Chino Hills on its resume. Yorba Linda defeated Villa Park 28-27 last week to hang on to its undefeated record and win the Crestview League. “Do we have more of a chance (than in years past)? I’m avoiding all kinds of thoughts like that and people that want to look beyond this week. But I look at this week as a game that we can be beat just as easily as playing anyone else. “If you’re looking at it from the angle of, ‘well, you’re playing a winnable game versus playing an unwinnable one,’ I certainly understand that. “I just don’t think like that,” Hagerty said.
John Bosco, Servite and Corona Centennial, Hagerty won’t disrespect Yorba Linda like that, or any other team. While some are speculating how far Amat can go in a playoff division that doesn’t include Mater Dei, St. Bishop Amat football avoiding trap of looking past Yorba Linda – San Gabriel Valley Tribune Close Menu
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