So what about the Friday friendly Season Closer against Wilson High? Oh, THAT game? Well, it was close but we still had the second-highest score for all teams involved in that game.
And the "East L.A. Classic" was held last night at a full ELA College Stadium, with Garfield High coming away from the game with bragging rights over Roosevelt High for the next year until they meet again.
NORTHERN LEAGUE
Franklin 51, Eagle Rock 24
Los Angeles Marshall 49, Belmont 24
Los Angeles Wilson 28, Lincoln 20
EASTERN LEAGUE
Garfield 26, Los Angeles Roosevelt 7
Huntington Park 24, Bell 8
Los Angeles Jordan 63, South Gate 7
Opinion Time
All in all, it was not a bad season for Lincoln, and definitely without all the drama that played out at Eagle Rock High over the whole year, leading up to the cowardly attack on Coach Lopez and the forfeit to Belmont last week.
ERHS Principal, Mr. Velasco, is marching that school from mountain heights, straight into the ocean after he was handed a campus with generally high morale and academic performance. The football program decision was just another milestone along that trek.
I thought the idea was to have a principal try to move your school forward, not backwards, but all that is just my opinion. LAUSD honchos checked off this situation and said A-OK. The "review" included a personally conducted community meeting to air out gripes regarding "nepotism" claims regarding husband-teacher-coach, Mr. Lord and administrator-wife, Mrs. Lord, by Ray Cortines, "Senior Deputy Superintendent." I was there to hear all this. Talk about conflicting views of the same subject, this was a markedly divided audience. The purpose of the meeting turned out to be more stroking than anything else. At the time, it looked like something might actually be done to correct the problems. Ha.
The principal was never really directly involved in any public process and confidentiality limitations were usually relied upon for his absence throughout. So, LAUSD did the usual thing in a critical situation, nothing, as it reviewed the decisions and all stood unchanged, as well as keeping the catalyst, the principal, at Eagle Rock.
To be clear, Coach Lopez was just caught in the middle of a disastrous scenario not of his making, and he's been trying to make the best of the bad situation he inherited. To me, the former coach, Mr. Chou initially looked like more the good guy before the season started, but did he have any responsibility to get the players in line and act maturely, or were the players to figure that out alone or not at all?
It was a season to remember, but for the wrong reasons.
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