Watched Elway Doc on Netflix

Great story Bruddah Balls.  Yeah, in the mid 70’s to 80’s City HS were just as good as the CIF HS’s.  The City had HS FB powers, Banning, Carson, San Fernando, Granada Hills, Kennedy, Gardena, Dorsey, Crenshaw, Narbonne, Venice, Palisades, Lynwood, Hamilton, El Camino.

Back then, the entire SS CIF had so many top FB players, it fed many D-1 college FB programs: USC, UCLA, Stanford, UDub, Oklahoma, Nebraska, Colorado, Notre Dame, Michigan, ASU, Zona.

I remember the QB duel between John Elway-Granada Hills vs Tom Ramsey-Kennedy HS, both schools were rivals and only 3 miles apart.  Shoot, Ramsey was a great QB, who went and starred at UCLA and Elway at Stanford.  USC went hard after both QB’s but had to settle for John Mazur, El Camino HS who was #3 QB in da City.  Heck, Mazur did just fine for us…  Cheers

John Mazur is a name from the past. I think Marcus was his RB so that helped him, but he was not SC caliber. Correct me if I’m wrong because that was long ago but he threw as many picks as he did Td’s. Sean Salisbury who had prototype Qb measurables, ie, tall, big arm , etc, forced his transfer to  I think Texas Agricultural and Mechanical. I don’t think he did that well there. Our QB at Banning was Jamelle Holieway who famously forced Troy Aikman to transfer from  Oklahoma. Barry Switzer and Jrob were regulars at our campus.

Good posts in this thread Butkus. Thanks.

Bruddah Balls, Mazur was a 4* rated.  He was a hot QB at El Camino Real HS, West Hills, SF Valley.  He became QB1 at USC 1981 as a Soph and did fine, but like you said he had a great supporting cast behind him (Marcus Allen, RB and very good OL).  Yep, Sean Salisbury, 5* and #2 HS QB in nation from Escondido, San Diego, came in 1982 and won the QB1 job midway into the season as a true freshman.  Mazur dropped down to QB2, after the season ended JM transferred to Texas AM.  He did not find good success at Tx AM.

Sean was a great basketball player as well, 27 pts avg per game, Sr year.  With Sean at the helm, USC passed a lot, more than previous QB’s.  Hell, even Salsibury as QB1 only did OK as well, with average records.  We all felt frustrated, his HS reputation did not translate at USC.  But, he did better in da NFL and TV color sportscaster…  Cheers

PS.  Shoot Jamelle Holieway was a sensational DT QB for Banning and then OU, becoming an AA.  Yep, he did force Aikman to transfer, on the advice of C. Switzer calling UCLA C. Donahue.  Dam, dat was da great transfer.  Wow, what luck for UCLA.

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Oh, from my recollection (memory) Tom Ramsey almost picked USC, it was like a 50/50 deal, UCLA/USC.  Shoot, in hindsight wished Tom Ramsey had picked USC, I think we would have most likely have won a NC with him at QB…  Cheers

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Didn’t Banning have a great Olineman back then that went to Stanford?  Bob something?

Yes, Bob Whitfield. Btw, on the same OL was USC and NFL star Mark Tucker and Center Courtney Hall, Rice and NFL . Three NFL oline guys on the team. Running behind them was USC FB Leroy Holt and Brett Young, Oregon. The QB? Jamelle Holieway four year starter at Oklahoma.  No wonder I hardly played. I almost got killed or paralyzed a few times and that was just in practice.

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That was the mark the ball would leave on those catching his hard, fast passes…from the indentation where the seams meet at the point of the ball when caught.  He threw with just a little bit of velocity lol.

Dang Bruddah, holy sheet dat’s the glove.  I wonder why it did not fit at the trial?  Eh, where did you find dis photo?  Nice job and Mucho Mahalo for sharing it with us.  Dis is a keeper, please store da picture in your computer.  I’m sure, like previous boards, one day we will lose all posting history with dis WW board…  Cheers

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