2016 football preview

*2016 Shore Conference Football Preview Homepage* Ever since staring over the edge of the cliff that was the school’s impending closing in 2015, Mater Dei Prep has not rested on its laurels when it comes to athletics. Right after it was announced the school was remaining open, the baseball team won its first outright division title in 12 years...

*2016 Shore Conference Football Preview Homepage* Losing seasons have been few and far between for Asbury Park over the past decade, but last year’s Blue Bishops team sought to distance itself from a forgettable 2014 campaign and in that regard, 2015 was a smashing success...

*2016 Shore Conference Football Preview Homepage* If anyone understands the football culture at Keyport High School, it is new head coach Jay Graham. He grew up in Keyport, played for the high school and served as defensive coordinator and associate head coach under longtime coach Mike Ciccotelli for 12 years...

*2016 Shore Conference Football Preview Homepage* The St. John Vianney team was a buzzsaw shy of capturing an NJSIAA Non-Public Group III championship in 2015, but the banner season for the Lancers got off to a tenuous start with a coaching change that shook up the returning players...

*2016 Shore Conference Football Preview Homepage* As someone who had to replace a 1,300-yard running back a year ago, junior tailback Ashanti Worthy knows the value in having another threat in the offense to take the pressure off. As a sophomore last season, Worthy posted a 1,300-plus-yard season of his own and finished with 13 total touchdowns while replacing All-Shore running back Josh Dixon...

*2016 Shore Conference Football Preview Homepage* Replacing the all-time single-season rushing leader in Shore Conference history would seem to have been the most glaring challenge for coach Dan George and the Long Branch football team heading into 2015, but finding the heir to Dahmiere Willis was not George’s major concern, nor is it his this season...

*2016 Shore Conference Football Preview Homepage* In the first full season under the direction of head coach Darian Barnes, the Colts Neck football team began to develop an identity, although it wasn’t necessarily the identity one might expect a team to have when its head coach learned under offensive gurus like New Orleans Saints coach Sean Payton and former Tampa Bay Bucs coach Jon Gruden... Rea

*2016 Shore Conference Football Preview Homepage* It is not likely anyone would blame a second-year head coach for enduring a four-win season with a team that returned only three starters from the previous year, but Neptune head coach Rodney Taylor was defiant in the face of the tempered expectations of 2016...

*2016 Shore Conference Football Preview Homepage* No injury to a teammate is too grave to compel an athlete to give up on the rest of his team over the remainder of the season, and the returning members of the Wall football team are no exception...

At most schools, a 4-6 season is a throwaway, but that was a banner year in the recent history of the Marlboro football program. Following the 4-6 campaign of 2012, Jason Dagato took over a program that lost most of its talent from that team and the first-year coach focused his players and staff on building the roster and the players on that roster big enough to compete against the sizable opponen

As a sophomore starting at quarterback last year, Zyheir Jones had the luxury of learning the position at a deliberate pace because his Lakewood team had a two-way leader in Amir Tyler to take the pressure off. Not only will Jones and his teammates not have Tyler to turn to this year, but now a junior, it will be Jones himself who is expected to be the leader that his Piners teammates follow... Re

By the simplest of measures, the turnaround of the Monmouth Regional football program is making steady progress under veteran coach Rich Mosca, a former college coach who is entering his fourth season of his second stint as the coach of the Falcons...