he went back to his alma mater, what have you decided to stir up now, mr non-bias high school football fan? Theyve got a lot of weapons. Clemson head coach Dabo Swinney wants Uiagalelei to be the next guy. The quarterback who evolved into one of the nation's top recruits and rode shotgun with Diaz in the Honda every weekday had graduated from St. John Bosco in December 2019 and enrolled at Clemson. Jason Negro from Trabuco Hills/St.John Bosco - Orange County Forums I couldnt imagine what it would be like to be a baseball coach or a track and field coach who are just getting ready to start their seasons and really get into the swing of things, and all of a sudden the rug is pulled out from underneath them, Negro said. See About archive blog posts. Two years after losing 42-12, the Braves best Mater Dei 24-3. Its more individual work, its more strength and conditioning on their timetable, so weve been able to accomplish that.. Bosco has about 20 D1 players and they rotate 8 DL. I GIVE MILILANI A BIG POSITIVE for taking this gameanytime any ISLAND BOYZ get the chanceWE SAY ^BRING ITT^GOOD LUCK MILILANI. And cross country runner/track athlete Alexander Frias is headed to Long Beach State. Awesome.. credit goes to the AD and HC at Mililani. It took Diaz several moments to process that DJ Uiagalelei, then standing around 6-foot-2, was only an eighth-grader and a quarterback for Boscos youth program. I will tell you this Im confident. No one cares that he won a section title five seasons ago and got the Celts into the Pac-5 final in 2007. HPW: There have been so many elite high school programs from SoCal. A former St. John Bosco assistant, Jason Negro, the head coach at Mission Viejo Trabuco Hills, has taken over for Mendoza. The Trinity League has allowed us to make our program nationally relevant, Negro said of playing programs like Mater Dei and Servite. We have a very tight bond and we take a lot of pride in family and brotherhood, a lot of pride in being culturally diverse. Chris King is entering his thirteenth year as the defensive coordinator and linebackers coach at St. John Bosco High School. Bosco also reached the last four consecutive CIF-SS Division 1 championship games and won two of them. Rosen is in the middle of a 1-5 season with the Cardinals. Still, the banter about the Lakers or college coaches recruiting pitches heading to or from Bellflower are now memories. We dont want to be like everyone else and that was refreshing for me. Hes always hustling back and forth. Where everyone's entitled to an opinion, no matter how wrong it may be. For more high school stories, stats and videos, visit http://usatodayhss.com. Football: St. John Bosco hires Jason Negro - Los Angeles Times "The kids are being paid for a service to be an influencer and talk about it in a positive light. Coach Munson is also the head JV football coach and coaches track. Framed jerseys belonging to Bosco greats including some household names adorn the walls. Each and every week youre playing someone who is recognized nationally, Negro added. The Los Angeles Unified School District on Monday announced it would close all of its campuses through the summer. was coming home and the older brother would assure the middle-schooler, whos now at Bosco and one of the countrys top-rated recruits, hed be there soon.
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,247 Sports top-ranked unsigned player in the 2019 class, McCoy makes an impact on both sides of the ball for the Monarchs, leading the team in receiving yards and sacks while hes tied for the second-most tackles for loss (6.5).
Three Bosco alumni are at Arizona State, a place Negro is pleased to see his players land. He looks more like 218 than 238. In 2017, Uiagalelei was a sophomore and had beat out a senior Iowa State commit, Re-al Mitchell, for Boscos starting job under center. He has a lot of faith in his players. Required fields are marked *, The St. John Bosco Braves ran onto the field prior to playing Saint Louis in 2014 at Aloha Stadium. Certainly, its not the same. If this rivalry has turned into a battle of the quarterbacks, Friday nights game is in keeping with that theme, pitting 247 Sports No.Photo: EC Sabin, St. John Bosco Football
,Mater Dei isnt over-reliant on their run game, but Harper leads the Monarchs with 50 carries for 546 yards.
Its football-only. Learn more about what we do and how to find our content on our broadcast, digital and social media platforms. The first thing that I will say is that Im very thankful, and the reason why I am thankful is because our season was able to be played and it was completed. Im able to be part of a program that allows us to be on the national stage. Mendoza is a man of integrity who always tried to get his players attention from college recruiters. In 2015, St. John Bosco was taking on Bishop Amat during the state semifinals when Diaz noticed what he thought was a high school student. Jason left Trabuco, because he was going to coach at his alma mater and earn a salary that would allow him to provide a home for his family. So our whole opportunity that we have here at St. John Bosco is to try to get kids to play and to expose them to as many collegiate markets as possible.. At this school you (have) a lot of great coaches. (Photo by Scott Rowe/Cronkite News). Where Clemson football stands. Hes a prototype QB, but I wonder if colleges have already asked about him lining up at another position just because. Uiagalelei had a season for the ages in 2019, throwing for 4,225 yards, 48 TDs and just two interceptions. 1 rankings by MaxPreps and USA Today. Negro: Weve got 82. Now former coach Steve Grady is on a screening committee searching for a replacement. Three years later, all of a sudden we have this kid DJ that is a sophomore. Negro: By trade, Im a teacher, Im a math teacher, but since Ive been back at Bosco, Im 100 percent football only. He was a summer intern with NBC Sports and worked for Cronkite Sports LA in fall 2019. St. John Bosco Football Coach Jason Negro Talks Josh Rosen, DJ His 39 tackles leads the team, and hes one of six players on the team to have somewhere between 6.0 and 7.0 tackles for loss. The Monarchs were led by current Georgia quarterback JT Daniels, then a senior. I'm honored to help carry on the tradition of excellence and Brotherhood. Jason left Trabuco, because he was going to coach at his alma mater and earn a salary that would allow him to provide a home for his family. 1 ranked pro-style quarterback in the country who just led the Braves to the state championship. As a Navy Corpsman, he completed two combat tours in Iraq with the US Marines. (Saying) that youve got kids going to, you know, six Ivy League schools over the last four years in your program says a whole lot. In the decade since Jason Negro took over as head coach, the program has become an unstoppable force in high school football and a source of top recruits for Arizona State and universities around the country. Its mythical anyway, really, unless there is some sort of tournament, Negro said. Entering his eleventh year with Bosco as a Defensive Backs coach, Jonathan brings 25 years of coaching experience with him and was a member of the 2008 coaching staff for the CIF Runner-ups, Tesoro HS. HPW: Whats it been like for you and your staff to build this program to where it is? Negro: Hes my brother. We kind of fit right in there. (Photo by Evan Desai/Cronkite News). In that 2010 matchup vs. Mater Dei, the Braves had led in the fourth quarter before the Monarchs scored two unanswered touchdowns. After coming back to Bosco in 2010, where the administration had rededicated itself to athletic successes, Negro quickly assembled a huge staff of the best people hed worked with along the way. Just little small things like that. HPW: I saw on the website theres a Jacob Negro who coaches on staff and is a math teacher. St. John Bosco High School players stood in the Mater Dei visitors locker room. Theres a lot of teams that told us they dont want to play us. Coach Negro works with the Special Teams unit at the Varsity Level. "You know, never once did I ever question whether Josh wanted to be a high level football player. Currently, he teaches Biology at California High School in Whittier. Uiagalelei laughed it off but took the idea seriously enough to find contact information and get in touch with the program. The Braves right now would be just days away from opening spring practice in their quest to repeat, but the coronavirus pandemic has put that to a screeching halt. You were right, Coach. Thats for sure, Negro said, laughing. Negro also went on to discuss his current QB, DJ Uiagalelei, who has emerged as one of the top high school players in the country. With seventeen years of coaching experience, and a philosophy to never give up, he once again joins the SJB staff in coaching the tight ends at the varsity level. Shes like: I wonder who hes going to root for.. We have a lot of talent on offense. St Louis would be a better match up for SJB, but not enough juice across the board to pull out the W. As for my beloved Big Red, I can only go on what weve seen so far; and based on that, Big Red O would have a very tough time against the SJB D; Big Red D would hang a little longer, but not enough. Defensive back Josh Alford and other teammates, described their bond as a brotherhood. 2023 Cronkite News. Mayfair basketball star Josh Christopher on Monday announced he is going to Arizona State. Theyve all been to that college level, so you know how to act when they come..Photo: Mater Dei
,While the Mater Dei secondary is impressive, its not every week they face a 6-foot-3, 190-pound specimen like Stanford commit Colby Bowman.
St. John Bosco went back to the future in hiring Jason Negro, a 1991 graduate of the school, to replace the fired Kiki Mendoza as its football coach. Negro: We have so many packages and schemes offensively and defensively, there are kids at the skill spots who go both ways. It was all about competing, it was all about being a part of the process, it was all about just being able to say that were associated with these teams rather than were going to go out there and were gonna not only compete, but were gonna win and were gonna beat these guys and were gonna be better than them.. He knew as soon as he saw the Bosco facility in 2010 that the weight room approach needed a facelift. Heres when severe weather is forecast, SC woman charged after allegedly consuming abortion pills to end pregnancy, Todays South Carolina-Clemson baseball game start time changed because of weather, The South Carolina vs. Clemson baseball series wont be on TV. Now, with transfers galore, certain schools keep winning every season, and people want to join the crowd. Principals, under pressure from parents and boosters, are pushing competent coaches out the door and hoping for a savior when one might not exist. Were excited to play at their field, a neighborhood school. When you can close a gap that quickly, that was that large of a gap, I think ultimately people stood up and took recognition of the type of program we were building, Negro said. Everyone understands their role. And we were a relatively new staff when he came in. The Tigers had Uiagaleleis heart, though, and it was time to make it official. The main goal for us is to get the ball into our playmakers hands based on what the defense is giving us. Jason later graduated from California State University Dominguez Hills with a Bachelor of Science degree in Mathematics. It was like this transition back to what used to be my normal and whats again now my normal routine of being by myself. But in that league, its important to be better than not bad. Jason negro was highly respected by everyone at Trabuco. The way they're approaching it is that it's a small job," Bosco head coach Jason Negro told USA Today. Culture change turned St. John Bosco into a Trinity League powerhousePhoto: EC Sabin, St. John Bosco Football
,The No. Hes an incredible athlete with strong bloodlines. Hey, these guys like to do this or this player has this certain, particular trait, or something like that.. Dillon Gabriel is accurate and can run, and on defense theyre extremely aggressive. It was Oct. 14, 2010. Big smiles, loud music at practices, new uniform combinations each year and fresh competitions everywhere are the new normal for Bosco football. He was named first-team All-CIF Southern Section his senior year and was selected to play in the 1996 California-Hawaii All-Start game. This guy is focused on being the greatest that he can be and representing himself the best way that he can.. Last season, Mater Dei wide receiver Amon-Ra St. Brown caught two touchdown passes for 206 yards and returned a punt for a third score. Coach Negro has also coached at Trabuco Hills High School and helped lead the Mustangs to the CIF Southwest Division Championship Game against La Mirada at Anaheim Stadium in 2009. HPW: Your athletic director (Monty McDermott) mentioned that this is a home-and-away series. But its not just the quarterbacks. The Braves had just lost 31-20 the seventh consecutive time theyd fallen to the powerhouse from nearby Santa Ana, Calif. but there was something different. He attended Cal Poly Pomona where he earned his degree in History and received his Masters in Education from the National University. Coach York did not do that at all. One of the things the kids said when I got the job was that they didnt want to do that anymore, Negro said. Love Coach Diaz.. They are kind of criticizing him in the wrong way.". Bosco has played and beaten state champions from New Jersey, Ohio, Utah, Hawaii, Oregon and Arizona. Not like hatred, because I knew a lot of the guys on the team, Rosen said. It was something about seeing the golden helmets on TV that attracted a young kid coming up in Pico Rivera in the 1970s. Do Not Sell or Share My Personal Information, Harvard-Westlakes Bryce Rainer fires out 92-mph fastballs in first start since 2021, New era of football begins at Mater Dei under coach Frank McManus, High school baseball and softball: Thursdays scores, Taft football coach Jeff Kearin resigns in support of assistant principal, Desperate mountain residents trapped by snow beg for help; We are coming, sheriff says, Hidden, illegal casinos are booming in L.A., with organized crime reaping big profits. Along with his coaching duties, Coach Hall is the Athletic Coordinator within the Athletics Department and the staff liaison for collegiate recruiting, helping our players get to the next level. Aubreys three-star rating isnt as high as some other players on the team, but hes made a strong impact defensively.
HPW: Do you share the field with other teams, like soccer? Negro previously was defensive coordinator and coached defensive backs at St. John Bosco for three years beginning in 1998. Weve got 850 kids, an all-boys school.