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Volume 117 - Issue 10
November 28, 2012
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East coast prospects play west coast ball
Despite strict recruiting rules, out-of-state players constitute more than half this year’s team Navid Khoi/Roundup
In the past five years, the Pierce football program has fielded more players from outside the state of California than any other school in the American Pacific Conference, a Roundup investigation has found. The Brahmas’ 2012 roster is made up of 95 players, with 54 of them being outside the state of California. Half of those 54 out-of-state players are either from Pennsylvania or New Jersey, which is where Pierce seems to get many of its recruits in recent seasons. According to the California Community College Athletic Association, Pierce must recruit from Ventura County– their contingency area to recruit from– if district recruiting efforts fall short. “We don’t go out of California to do recruiting, because we don’t know who any of these players are,” Pierce head coach Efrain Martinez said. “They have to get in contact with us, for us to even start looking into them to recruit.” According to Los Angeles Southwest College head coach Ted Washington– who is also a member of the executive board of junior college recruiting– the only way to recruit out-of-state players is if they contact you first, then “it’s fair game.” “None of these kids are breaking any rules by coming here to Pierce,” Athletic Director Bob Lofrano said. “Once they call us, they’re more than welcome to come out here and play for us.” Lofrano also expressed that football players from out of state are still like any other student coming in from another state. “These athletes are still students, they are just like every other student that comes here from out of state,” Lofrano said. “There is nothing in this school that says you can’t come from out of state.” Many schools in the American Pacific Conference, including Santa Monica College and West Los Angeles College, try to have as few out-of-state players as possible on their team, according to head coaches from each of the two schools. “Many schools don’t recruit out-of-state players because it can become a big headache,” Martinez said. “Coaches have to worry about if they have a place to live, if they have food, and other essentials.” The reason for this according to Washington is that many schools like to stay in their districts area for many of their recr u its for all
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Brahmas stop Antelope Valley from the extra point to win 43-20 against Antelope Valley Marauders on Sat. Oct 27, 2012 at Pierce College field Shepard Stadium in Woodland Hills, Calif. sports, not just football. “The belief here at Santa Monica has been to recruit in our district area, believing that’s the best strategy,” Santa Monica head coach Gifford Lindheim– whose 2012 roster only shows 12 out-of-state players– said. An out-of-state player has to pay $225 a unit, unlike the $45 a California resident has to pay, according to Lofrano. “It’s going to be a burden for many players financially– to come to Pierce College or anywhere else that’s out of state– for these kids to play football,” Lofrano said. Martinez believes the problem about recruiting players from in California is that there are too many schools out here, so many of the kids take it for granted. “These kids have so many different options of which school they want to go to, as kids that live 3,000 miles away have no choice but to come out here, play football, and pursues their dream,” Martinez said. According to Martinez, former players Ty Harris and Nate Ingram made the transition to California, and gave the blueprint for other players to succeed in making the move from another state.
“Those guys got their own apartments; and got to and from school themselves, which is all you need to ask from them to see they made the transition of moving here,” said Martinez. There are 144 schools that play two-year football in the entire country, and California has over 70 of these schools. “So where are they going to go to play football in states that don’t even have junior college football?” Lofrano asked. “Basically their only choices are to go to out-of-state schools, and figure it out from there.” This is the reason why assistant head coach Jason Sabolic never worries about out-of-state recruiting, because there are few options out there to play two-year football. “There will always be an influx of out-of-state players coming to Pierce,” Sabolic said. There are only a few states that offer kids a second chance at playing football after high school if they couldn’t get a scholarship from a university.” Martinez says defensive coordinator Ty Greenwood is the reason for much of his success to recruiting out-of-state players. “[Greenwood] has a great connection to many of the high schools on the east coast,” Martinez said.”Which makes him very valuable to our staff.” Greenwood joined the Pierce coaching staff as a volunteer assistant in 2007, See RECRUITING, RU Online
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Attack in library Calvin Alagot/Roundup calagot.roundupnews@gmail.com
A fight occurred up in the Library according to campus authorities. The violence took place around 9:30 a.m. on the second floor of the Library in computer Lab B. “Three people were involved,” said Officer Jody Clounch, denying to release the names of the people involved. The parties involved did not want to speak to the Roundup. Architecture major Susan Mollasalahi was sitting at the computer next to the people involved, and saw the entire ordeal. It began with a woman accidentally bumping into a man sitting next to her, which led to the two fighting verbally, according to Mollasalahi. The verbal situation escalated quickly, with the male repeating his warning, according to witnesses. The male grabbed a cup of coffee the female had brought with her to the computer station and dumped the hot liquid on her, according to Mollasalahi. “He took her coffee and spilled it at her face,” Mollasalahi said. Then the confrontation turned
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to physical violence with the male striking the female twice, according to Mollasalahi. “I saw him punch her in the face two times,” Mollasalahi said. A friend of the woman saw the situation unfolding and got involved, at which point he was attacked as well, according to Mollasalah. The friend was soon on the floor of the library, with the man mounted over him striking him repeatedly. After pummeling the male student, the attacker then left the library, where he was met by campus law enforcement personnel, who had been contacted about the incident. An ambulance came to the scene to treat wounds while the attacker was handcuffed for interrogation by law enforcement. The female and male were both treated for cuts and bruises, and both were given ice by first responders in order to bring down the swelling on their faces. “I don’t feel like talking right now,” the woman said, “I have to go to the health center.”
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FISTS: Security officers Pedro Pineda and Justin Ramos discuss the incident where this unnamed male allegedly struck a female and her male friend repeatedly in the library after a verbal altercation. The man was detained by the officers and taken away in handcuffs.
Information for this week’s report comes from meteorology student Kevin Gabriel, who volunteers at the station.
W E A T H E R
Wed.– Nov. 28 High: 63° Low: 50 °
Thur.– Nov. 29 High: 64° Low: 49°
Fri.– Nov. 30 High: 68° Low: 48°
Sat.– Dec. 1 High: 71° Low: 48°
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Sun.– Dec 2 High: 70° Low: 48°
R E P O R T Mon.– Dec. 3 High: 71° Low: 50°
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Tues.– Dec. 4 High: 70° Low: 48°
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Wed.– Dec. 5 High: 72° Low: 50° Sunny