Mater Dei High School

Not the double zero, the single zero out of Stockton, California.

He went to Mater Dei High School, which, good Lord, how many players have come out of there.

Played all 14 games as a true freshman.

Back at USC, and he's kind of worked his way all the way around to get to Texas.

when he was in high school.

So it's debatable whether he truly counts as a Californian per se, but he did play his last couple years of high school football at Mater Dei High School, which traditionally has been a USC pipeline.

They have a couple guys, his former teammates Caden Dixon-Wyatt, who was at one time an Ohio State commit, and Mark Bowman at tight end.

Those were Chris Henry Jr.'s high school teammates at Mater Dei, but Chris Henry chose to come here to Ohio State.

And I think a lot of speculation at that time involving head coach Bruce Rollinson was that he, he, he might retire and you, you couldn't deny it.

I mean, he had over 200 wins, won five CIF titles already during the 1990s with the Monarchs.

I mean, a group, great nanny era it pretty much accomplished everything that he had set out to do as a modern day alum wanting to restore the greatness of that era but Rolo decided he wasn't done yet and from that point on the next two years modern day was in the finals and then First in 2013, they lost to St. John Bosco for the championship.

And then from, you know, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2022, and 2023, 2024, it was always modern day St. John Bosco.

John Bosco and their, their commercials.

I mean, what, what significance do you think that has played, you know, that specific rivalry? And of course they play this week on Friday, once again, in the big training league game.

Yeah, I think gosh, I, I, I, For both Mater Dei and St. John Bosco, I think in addition to having two real forces of nature as their head coaches guiding those programs, because it definitely started from the very top.

Both of those coaches having a vision for what they wanted their programs to become.

You should have... gone back further because it's it's here you know not to go off on a crazy tangent I looked at I dug into a bunch of stats from girls flag football for North Coast regionals yeah there's some amazing stats going on and I'm like it's great to see top 10 of all these categories, and it's not consistently the same schools like we're used to with boys football.

Yeah, Mater Dei and St. John Bosco and De La Salle, all that stuff, yeah.

So

I'm excited for what is coming about, especially for women's sports.

No, you know, stay home.

You don't need to go out to Mater Dei and Bosco and Rancho and all them schools.

Stay home.

It's somewhere for you at Pacific here.

Matt Barkley.

Mater Dei High School.

Jake Browning.

Riley Dodge.