Final thoughts on St. Francis-Los Altos

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For the second week in a row, a team in the SGV used press clippings, message board fodder and blog comments as motivation. Charter Oak did against Glendora last week and St. Francis did it against Los Altos this week.

Is too much talk becoming, well, too much?

I mean, this is only high school sports we are talking about. And I know preps have become a big deal -- I mean, I’m writing on a blog about prep sports -- but when do we go Mike Gundy on this whole thing and say, these are just amateur athletes we are talking about?

Is there a line where we go too far? Would Charter Oak and St. Francis have won their games if they would not have been told they couldn’t win by hundreds of people in print or online? Should we, the media, play a role in motivating teams at the high school level?

Answers: Yes. No. No.

And hey, listen, I’m as guilty as the next guy, so it’s not like I’m on my soapbox or anything like that. I’m just saying that their is a huge probability that the outcome of the game was affected by us dissecting these games as if they were college-level events and that’s not cool -- not to Glendora and not to Los Altos, at least.

- Jaime Cardenas