Two Mission Viejo football players under investigation
September 2nd, 2008, 11:26 am · 27 Comments · posted by DAN ALBANO, ocvarsity.com
Two Mission Viejo football players did not participate in the Diablos' season-opening game Friday in Hawaii because of allegations they violated team and school rules on the trip, said Tom Turner, assistant to the superintendent for the Saddleback Valley Unified School District.
Turner declined to discuss the nature of the allegations and said the case is still being investigated. He said Mission Viejo is handling the investigation.
Because student disciplinary matters are confidential, Turner didn't release the names of the players.
“We're doing our due diligence,” Mission Viejo athletic director Troy Roelen said. “Minors are involved and it's a school issue.”
Diablos coach Bob Johnson was contacted Tuesday morning but was unavailable for comment.
Mission Viejo, ranked fourth in the Orange County preseason poll, opened the season with a 48-21 victory against Baldwin. The Diablos next play at Redondo on Sept. 12.
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Why are there no stories on the Pacific Coast League or KickOff 08 for them either? They work just as hard as the other schools. I am sure there are some talented players at the schools in there league to. What"s up with that?
The PCL will get its turn in the rotation soon.
Wait a sec! Hawaii?!? Since when do high school, regular season away-games involve an airplane ticket instead just a smelly bus ride? At a time when school budgets are under tighter scrutiny to find cuts in essential services just to stay open, this type of story about privileged sports jocks, and their coaches/chaperons/boosters, just smacks of insult after insult to basic logic. Talk about a boondoggle!
Corwin obviously got beat up by the football team back in high school and still harbors a grudge....
HAWAII? HAWAII? A high school football game in HAWAII? This isn't the NFL!!! No wonder the schools are going broke. Where else are the teams now playing? Washington? Colorado? Why not make it multi cultural and fly the teams to France and Germany!!!
me thinks steroids or alcohol or pot...or all three
Corwin... still sour you were not cool in High School? "The mean jocks get a trip, publicity, and all the girls!" WHHHHHAAAAAAAA!!!
And major mens sports bring in a huge majority of the money for all sports and the school- Its the reason there is probably still a girls badmiton team.
The school doesn't pay for the team to go...the parents have to pay and then they also have to pay booster dues. The boys love to go!
The kids went door to door to collect for this trip. The average donation was $25.00, so they knocked on a lot of doors. It was not a parent or taxpayer paid trip.
It’s not uncommon for HS teams to play Hawaii. However I can assure you that its not a free ride funded by the school district. Years ago Tustin went to Hawaii several times and we had planned it out a year in advance with car washes, Christmas tree sales, 4th of July concession sales and all sorts of other fund raisers to earn money to go.
Every 4 years South Coast League teams play a game in Hawaii. I went with Capo in 1997. The players/parents pay (or raise) the $1,500-2,000 or they don't go. I'm guessing it costs a lot more now to go than it did 10 years ago.
Before all you know it alls mouth off, get your facts straight. The parents pay and pay dearly for these players have what they have.
Dumbed Down shouldn't speculate on what you don't know. You are the reason peoples reputations get ruined.
Whoever pays ~ it's still ridiculous! It's high school, for crying out loud!
Picking on high school students seems to be a favorite pasttime for the OC Register.
What gives with the priorities of the Register?
Instead of focusing on the white collar crime, fraud, and criminal misconduct in this county, they would rather pick low-hanging fruit by publishing garbage about Tesoro, Mission Viejo, and Aliso Niguel High School.
Well, by my book, that is not exactly Pulitzer.
Regardless of who pays for it, the kids are obviously not mature enough to handle it, and future trips should be given serious thought before they are planned, if at all.
Glow: Should we let them out before they are 30? A couple kids mess up so they all get punished? That is REALLY small minded.
SSjedi: This is the sports section, I don't wana read about fraud and all that here, although I would like more stories about the teams and not just who the coaches are drooling over.
Home: Our D3 teams should be playing Hawaii teams, LB Poly has the right idea, travel to play a team that is a challenge.
Ryan: Capo went last year too and the cost is about the same.
As for Corwin and Johnb, there is a light switch in that dark damp room you are in, you really need to find it.
I remember the time some of my HS football teammates tore up several rooms at the Planters Hotel in Brawley after a CIF-SS playoff game. The high school received the bill for damages and ALL of us had to work the orange groves and the packing house till we made enough to cover the bill. Our HC was a WWII hero who believed if one squad member screwed up, we all paid the price. Not a bad way to teach peers to hold each other accountable.
This incident should be added to Dan Albano's MV rap sheet. Yes, xxaapp, we are keeping score. Would you have it any other way. Dan, please be sure to report back if and when Coach Johnson returns your calls.
So let's get rid of the 8th grade Washington DC trip, too. Maybe those kids aren't mature enough, either. Of course they are not. That's why chaparones/teachers/administration/parents are on board, also. And, noone's convicted of anything. Right? These kids earn a trip via fundraising or old fashion parents hard work. Either way, it's not at school district exspense. Relax.
Actually that's the way that real life works a lot of the time. A few people get greedy with mortgages and houses and now most people will have a hard time getting one. Park equipment gets vandalized over and over and out goes the equipment, not there for everyone anymore. High school students get obnoxious in how they park in surrounding neighborhoods and, oop, up go parking-by-permit-only signs. There are tons of incidents in which a few mess it up for the many.
Steve: Add what to the rap sheet? Did the players get sent home for breaking curfew? Having a stripper in their room? The article seemed a bit vague, but dealing with minors, it's going to be vague. And my point in the other thread was to have CIF-SS change the rules. If you think that multiple "minor" (as described by dalbano, which I agree) violations should be punished harsher, whining ain't going to do it. Most HS Football coaches won't sign on to it because it might affect them.
Glow: Because that is the way it is, does that make it right? No. To solve this we need to discover what the issue is/was, and take actions to stop it from happening again. Your way of thinking is like people in cars break laws, get in accidents, and kill people every day. So let's get rid of cars! But you would be against that because that would effect you personally.
What I tell my kids is what we are dealing with here. I call it the 3% rule. 3% of any group ruin things for the other 97%. Apply this to anything. An overwhelming majority of people do thing right. But it's the few who screw things up - always. They are the ones that get all the press as well. That percentage could even be a little high. If we and the press focus on the majority who do the right thing, we wouldn't be having this discussion.
Painted balls win championships!
UR right jimmy1 just like the AP thing at Trabuco 7 morons ruined it for the other 195. Some of those innocent ones paid dearly in scholarship losses.
It was actually Maui. I was on the same United Airlines flight as the football team. They were very well behaved in the airport and on the flight home. They also crushed the team from Maui in their game. I agree that it is a little ridiculous to fly all the way there for a game, but all Hawaii teams are a little restricted in their competition, since they are not on the mainland.