When does this new high school in Gilroy open its doors? What will the impact be to both Gilroy High and the TCAL?
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 mbaypreps
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Posts: 1121 08/19/08 14:32:56 |
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DownandDistance |
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Posts: 73 08/20/08 08:58:39 |
Doors are slated to be open 2009-2010 school year, John Perales is the principal. Daren Yafai is the Athletic Director, Coach Yafai was the head coach at
gilroy a while back. impact on GHs will be the number of students reduced. CHS will open with about 700 students (9th and 10th graders). I dont think CHS will
have an impact on TCAL because CHS will start as independent for 2 years, then be placed somewhere..TCAL, MBL, etc...
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carmelkyd |
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Posts: 275 08/20/08 13:27:31 |
Seems to me that CHS...and Marina High...will have a pretty large impact over the next few years on both their school sytems and their league. Imagine if CHS
had been open five years ago and Jensen ended up going there instead of Gilroy High. Or what if Marina High had been around for five years and both Avila and
Foster had ended up going there? I think CHS and Marina could have a pretty big impact five years from now. Maybe even more so at Marina because the
peninsula isn't growing (population-wise) at the same pace as the Gilroy area. So in 10 years, CHS and Gilroy might both have 2,000+ students each, while
Marina High is bound to make Seaside High (and perhaps Monterey) smaller schools than they are today for many years. And smaller schools have smaller odds
that exceptional athletes will be in attendance.
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SJSU SAV |
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Posts: 6 08/20/08 14:49:58 |
the opening of CHS should greatly impact Gilroy. i mean look what happened to live oaks enrollment after sobrato opened, it went from over 2000 to around
1300 (while sobrato has 1500 students). so in 3 to 5 years gilroy will likely go from the 2nd biggest school in the TCAL (after hollister) to the smallest
public school in the league. how negatively it will affect gilroy remains to be seen.
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yingyang99 |
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Posts: 31 08/20/08 15:47:48 |
Christopher High also looks to have the negative effect of the boundaries being drawn with the more affluent, middle class students attending the new school
and kids in the poorer neighborhoods attending GHS.
There is zero discussion of another school being built in San Benito County and Anzar was built to only house around 700 students. The politics that be do not want to rock the apple cart of SBHS. |
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Martigan |
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Posts: 249 08/24/08 11:37:48 |
SJSU SAV, there is no immediate plan to build a new high school in Hollister. Anzar will be the initial high school for the new Rancho San Benito development,
so their growth will come from there. A previous superintendant had a brand new campus built in Hollister, meant for 9th graders only, but when he quit before
it could be completed, the new superintendant just folded it into the regular high school. Don't expect Hollister to have any type of new high school in
the next ten years.
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robert |
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Posts: 1 08/28/08 20:22:52 |
Lets hope that Daren Yafai is not the A.D. He proved when the Gilroy head coach that he will not be a good leader of a new program. His football team was the
most undisplan team in the league. He has know class to be a leader. In otherwords he cannot lead a horse to water.
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4bagger |
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Posts: 32 08/28/08 22:24:34 |
he must have been your english teacher too!
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DownandDistance |
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Posts: 75 09/01/08 15:08:05 |
The biggest impact that CHS will have is that the rivalry between San Benito and GHS will no longer be as important as GHS vs CHS for city braggin rights. Im
not saying that the prune bowl will not be important, it will be, but im guessing that San Benito will have a better chance to win because it will only play
GHS with athletes being shared between 2 schools-ghs/chs. The playing field will not be the same.
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uthinkuno5 |
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Posts: 1 11/20/08 12:41:36 |
I don't think you are looking at the whole picture when you look back on Coach Yafia's impact on GHS's program. When he took over Gilroy had not
made the playoffs for years and the program was a peranial loser. Coach Yafia's teams made the playoffs 3 out of 6 years during his time there and had one
of the best offensive teams in the section during that time. When he left the program had come a long way and Coach Hammond was able to bring the program
along even farther because of the solid base that the program had at that time. By the way Coach Hammond was hand picked by Yafia to be the next coach at GHS.
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nutpower |
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Posts: 20 11/22/08 19:26:52 |
Christopher, Gilroy, Live Oak Sobrato MVC and another school should make a league of their own once Christopher has a varsity program. It would be a B league
at first but would develop a lot of excellent rivalries. I think this is a great idea. They will all be about the same size in population. Would LO and Gilroy
be willing to drop from an A to a B?
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uthinkuno5 |
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Posts: 2 12/01/08 10:37:28 |
I believe the new league will be Gilroy, Christopher, Watsonville, MVC, St. Francis, and a school that I can't recall.
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VCHS fan |
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Posts: 1 12/01/08 13:59:57 |
I'm kind of hoping that with the football talent pool being watered down as the Gilroy area players get split between the two schools that more parents
won't want their star players playing for a medicore team and send their sons to VC. Did I mention that VC has a shuttle bus that makes the rounds every
day to Gilroy and Morgan Hill?
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uthinkuno5 |
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Posts: 3 12/04/08 12:32:43 |
Kids will not need to go anywhere farther than the corner of Santa Teresa and Day road to find a quality education and a great sports experience when
Christopher High opens. The new administration is putting together an outstanding faculty and coaching staff for all sports programs. It will take a little
while for these teams to become a force, but there is no doubt that the Cougars will do well on field as well as the classroom (the most important part of the
this new school).
Last Edited By: uthinkuno5 12/05/08 11:35:10.
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SJSU SAV |
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Posts: 88 12/04/08 22:44:19 |
that league sounds really random to me. if anything i could see sobrato, live oak, gilroy, christopher, and san benito starting a league, if they could find
one more team to join the league (pretty sure CCS requires leagues to have at least 6 teams). im sure live oak and sobrato would jump at a chance to form that
league, just look at all the natural rivalries that already exist and new ones that would emerge. maye they could convince a southern high school in san jose
to join. well this is all speculation of course.
personally i see christopher just joining the TCAL. seems to be the most practical solution, rather than shuffling a bunch of schools around between different leagues. |
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luni21 |
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Posts: 9 12/04/08 22:58:57 |
any word who've been named to the coaching staff?
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uthinkuno5 |
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Posts: 4 12/05/08 10:38:29 |
The San Jose schools do not want to come down to this area for financial reasons. Live Oak and Sobroto had to fight way to hard to be in the league they are
in and do not want to change at this time. The T-CAL will be too large for the Gilroy schools to be able to compete and the population of the schools in
Watsonville will match those of the Gilroy area. Travel will be less for this league than that of the T-CAL for the schools. San Benito is out of the
question until they decide to spilt their school, and that is very unlikely.
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SJSU SAV |
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Posts: 89 12/05/08 14:51:01 |
watsonville is the same size as most of the TCAL schools, pajaro has 1600 students and will probably grow some more, so its not like they are small (or even
medium) sized schools. if travel is such a big deal why would gilroy want to be in a league where they would have to drive over a mountain to play watsonville
and mvc? and on the flip side, why in the world would any watsonville school want to leave the MBL for that league? seems to me like it makes even less sense
for them.
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uthinkuno5 |
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Posts: 5 12/08/08 15:24:42 |
I believe the powers that be think the Gilroy schools will be 1600 or so and that matches up well with the others schools plus No. Monterey Co. These are just
ideas, they are not written in stone. They have also talked about a super league that would include MBL with two divisions, again just ideas. What I do know
is that the Gilroy schools will not be a part of the T-CAL when they fully split in two years. It will take some time to make the final decision, but they are
looking to go southwest, not north, for their league. Going over the mountain is not a new thing for Gilroy schools, and I don't think Watsonville would
have to leave the league if it becomes a super league with two divisions. This way it may be able to accommodate all the schools and make for more balanced
competition for all.
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SJSU SAV |
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Posts: 90 12/08/08 18:33:34 |
I have always been an advocate of a super league structure for this area, so that is good news to hear. maybe the gilroy schools not wanting to play in the tcal and marina high opening will push the schools down here to form a super league (or two). there are several ways you could do it. one would be to combine the sccal, mbl, and rls pg carmel and marina into one league, than take the current tcal plus the gilroy schools and the south county schools into another league. or you could leave the sccal as is (i remember reading somewhere the sccal was opposed to a super league) and combine the mbl, tcal, mtal, marina, and christopher into one superleague. as far as rivlaries go, if the teams happen to be in different leagues they can play the rivalries in non league games. i remember for like 6 years seaside and monterey played week one on saturday afternoons, and they still drawed great crowds. either way i think a super league would ultimately be good for the area, hopefully it happens. |
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