FOOTBALL: WEEKS, RICEDORFF SET RECORDSShow Low (Ariz.) posted a 13-1 record and won the Class 3A state title behind record-setting junior wide receiver
Josh Weeks (6-4, 205) and senior quarterback
Rathen Ricedorff (6-0, 165).
Ricedorff will graduate with nearly every Arizona state passing record. This year he completed 235 of 344 passes for 4,413 yards and 55 touchdowns with just eight interceptions. He also ran 93 times for 482 yards and 10 touchdowns. Assistant coach Will Poulson told MaxPreps that Ricedorff will go on a two-year Mormon mission, then attend Arizona State University.
Weeks, who has made a commitment to Brigham Young University, set Class 3A state records this year with 20 touchdown catches and 1,561 receiving yards. He had 73 catches for a 21.4 average. He also made 55 tackles. With his senior year remaining, Weeks already holds Class 3A career records with 149 catches, 41 for touchdowns.
* Bayside (Virginia Beach, Va.) senior wide receiver/defensive back
Demetrious Nicholson (5-9, 160) has made a commitment to the University of Virginia, according to the Norfolk Virginian-Pilot. He earlier was named Virginia's Gatorade Player of the Year.
* The Los Angeles Times reports that Chaminade (West Hills, Calif.) kicker
Matt Goudis has switched his commitment from Boise State to the University of Michigan.
* Syracuse University has received a commitment from senior quarterback
Ashton Broyld of Rush-Henrietta (Henrietta, N.Y.), according to the Syracuse Post-Standard. The 6-3, 230-pounder passed for 1,961 yards and ran for 1,540 – accounting for 48 touchdowns – while leading his team to a 13-0 record and the Class AA state title.
* Though he's just a junior,
Zach Banner of Lakes (Lakewood, Wash.) already is a recruiting target of the nation's premier college football programs. He's 6-9 and 300 pounds and athletic for his size (he also stars in basketball). Recruiters really pay attention when they see his 3.6 GPA and note that he has been class president for three straight years. Expect him to get bigger, too, because he just turned 17 on Christmas day.
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Luke Falk, a 6-4 sophomore quarterback from Logan (Utah), is transferring to Oaks Christian (Westlake Village, Calif.), according to the Los Angeles Times. He threw 17 touchdown passes in the fall.
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Notre Dame (Sherman Oaks, Calif.) plans to open its 2012 football season in Dublin, Ireland. Several other American teams are being invited to participate in the high school competition, which will be held in conjunction with the University of Notre Dame-Navy game.
* Rex Weaver is retiring as head football coach at
Hopkins (Mich.). Since 1981, he compiled a 214-91-1 record.
* Larry Bruno, who coached the great Joe Namath in high school, died recently at age 88. Bruno posted a 184-52-9 record in 20 years at Beaver Falls (Pa.), which included a 10-0 record and WPIAL Class AA title with Namath as his quarterback in 1960. Bruno was the presenter when Namath made the Pro Football Hall of Fame.
