Irvine combine founded by the late UCLA legend provides coaching and a showcase to high school players looking for college opportunities.
IRVINE — These are trying times for high school seniors planning to extend their football playing careers. Transfer portals, which make it easier for players to move from one school to another, have been around since 2018. Now the best players can capitalize financially on their names, images and likenesses , and the havoc that may create is still unknown.
The all-league safety for Orange Lutheran High has offers from such Division I colleges as Arizona State, Miami, and Florida State. But he can’t look at a roster and say to himself, “That’s where I have a chance to play right away.” Because that roster likely will be changing.Ala, like others among Saturday’s several hundred participants from throughout California, praised all aspects of the combine.
Take, for example, Gavin Rogers, a Division 8 All-CIF quarterback at Crean Lutheran High, a school of less than 1,000 students in Irvine. Rogers threw 38 touchdown passes with only three interceptions last season. He plans on attending Saddleback College, the two-year school in Mission Viejo. But that isn’t locked in.
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