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Saguaro's season highlight videos took a step back each year from 2006 to 2008, where we're stuck with less than six minutes of footage from the season. As I said this was a team that produced 8 D1 commits in their senior class, with notable guys being Corey Adams (#68/ASU), Erik Brown (#2/Fresno), Paul Porras (#11/Rice), and the ever present Beau Burton (#21/Utah). These were all two-way guys as Saguaro relied overwhelmingly on their senior class.  With two one-score wins over Paradise Valley and Peoria they did not have the same level of dominance that Hamilton and Centennial had.

 

Highlights for their blue chip d-tackle Corey Adams:

 

 

 

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Like Saguaro Centennial would end 2008 with their third straight state title, and would enter 2009 on a 26-game winning streak. Top performer for the Coyotes was John Hughes, a two-way back that was generously listed at 5-7 and seldom left the field on his way to 1600 rushing yards and 38 touchdowns; after a juco stop he'd play at D2 Northern State. Senior leaders for the defense were UNLV commit Reggie Umuolo at linebacker and all-state defensive end Jimmie Lewis, while a trio of 300-pound juniors (all D1 signees) anchored the o-line.  No team would come closer than two touchdowns to beating the Coyotes and notable wins were their two game sweep of Westview, the early win over Hamilton, and 2007 5A-1 runner-up Desert Vista (had several seniors that would have success at D1 programs).

 

 

 

 

 

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4 hours ago, 954gator said:

Can we get a list of OOS games somewhere by year?   Is there a Calpreps function to search for them?

http://calpreps.com/cgi-bin/2019/head-to-head.pl

1.) Choose Year

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2.) Click “Year(s)”

3.) Every states’ head-to-head numbers are links to the games played and dates.

For instance, click on California’s (4-11) record against Arizona and it will show you the teams who played, the date and the score. 

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2008 OOS matchups for Florida & Texas with Maxpreps rankings:

🥇= State Champion

🥈= Runner-up

 

Florida:

  #8 (14-1) Byrnes 🥇

#11 (13-2) Elder 🥈

#15 (14-1) Long Beach Poly 🥈

#38 (13-3) Katy 🥇

 

Texas:

#44 (15-0) Buford 🥇

#97 (14-1) John Curtis 🥇

#251 (10-2) Cypress Bay 

 

https://lonestarpreps.rivals.com/news/texas-vs-florida-cypress-bay-at-katy

https://www.browardpalmbeach.com/news/cypress-bay-high-sacrifices-itself-for-football-rivalry-tv-ratings-and-corporate-money-6312067

 

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I went in on Maxpreps handling of Arizona's small schools earlier, but think 2008 3A champ Payson is worth mentioning if for no other reason than they had two linemen play D1 ball and a quarterback that would hit .612 that year as a catcher on the Longhorns' baseball team (he'd go on to play that sport at University of North Dakota). Here's there semifinal matchup against Wickenburg, coached by eventual Mountain Pointe head man Norris Vaughn (Payson's in black):

 

 

...and as was the case about every year from 1990 to 2012, if you were going to win 3A you had to go through Blue Ridge. Payson did that twice in 2008, including a thrilling last-minute victory over the Yellowjackets in the title game. Here's their season highlights (skip to the 2:45 mark to get past the camp footage and get to the actual highlights and classic sounds of Thin Lizzy):

 

 

 

 

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2 hours ago, SeaShells21 said:

2008 OOS matchups for Florida & Texas with Maxpreps rankings:

🥇= State Champion

🥈= Runner-up

 

Florida:

  #8 (14-1) Byrnes 🥇

#11 (13-2) Elder 🥈

#15 (14-1) Long Beach Poly 🥈

#38 (13-3) Katy 🥇

 

Texas:

#44 (15-0) Buford 🥇

#97 (14-1) John Curtis 🥇

#251 (10-2) Cypress Bay 

 

https://lonestarpreps.rivals.com/news/texas-vs-florida-cypress-bay-at-katy

https://www.browardpalmbeach.com/news/cypress-bay-high-sacrifices-itself-for-football-rivalry-tv-ratings-and-corporate-money-6312067

 

Add South Panola state runner up MS for FL.

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On 8/13/2020 at 7:10 PM, 954gator said:

STA’s first OOS game in Cincy.   Elder came out swinging to a 10-0 lead, but STA came together and scored 28 straight and control the game.    I think Elder’s play surprised most of the STA fans.    Made sense they ended up in the State title game. 

I remember listening to that game on an internet radio broadcast. I thought that Elder was going to win this one. But STA throttled them. Man time flys. 

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On 8/15/2020 at 2:34 PM, SeaShells21 said:

http://calpreps.com/cgi-bin/2019/head-to-head.pl

1.) Choose Year

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2.) Click “Year(s)”

3.) Every states’ head-to-head numbers are links to the games played and dates.

For instance, click on California’s (4-11) record against Arizona and it will show you the teams who played, the date and the score. 

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None of that means anything.

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8 hours ago, zulu1128 said:

It wasn't exactly a "throttling" lol. 2 big plays and 7 turnovers did Elder in. 

It wasn't anything close to a throttling,  Elder could not run the ball though and they didn't play their star back until the 4th qrt.  I don't think he would have had much success on the ground against the STA front but he would have been nice out of the backfield catching the ball.

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33 minutes ago, nptb17 said:

It wasn't anything close to a throttling,  Elder could not run the ball though and they didn't play their star back until the 4th qrt.  I don't think he would have had much success on the ground against the STA front but he would have been nice out of the backfield catching the ball.

To me that WR Jones was the star for Elder that game.   One of the guys consistently making plays.   Where did he play in college?

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