Six weeks into his new job, West weighs in on topics such as athlete transfers, competitive equity for playoffs, flag football and an officiating shortage.
LOS ALAMITOS — Administratively, this might not be the biggest jump in sports but it’s one that requires some adjustment.
“When you’re an elected official, like as a school board member, you’re brought there and are dealing with policy,” he said. “You’re not dealing with the day-to-day functioning of a district if you’re a school board. He’s also had another adjustment, and my first question, as a fellow resident of the Inland Empire, involved his commute from Riverside to Los Alamitos. Maybe an hour in the morning, he said – FasTrak helps – and between one and two hours coming home. The 91 during evening rush hour can be a beast, even the Express Lanes.
Transfers remain a fact of life, of course. The numbers were down during the COVID-19 pandemic but have returned to pre-pandemic levels, and whileassuming that all transfers are negative isn’t necessarily fair. “I don’t anticipate much strain for a couple of reasons,” West said. “One, we don’t have 560 schools all of a sudden getting into flag football.
The officiating shortage, often exacerbated by coarsening fan behavior, is a nationwide issue in high school sports. In an attempt to calm things down, West said an athlete might get on the public address microphone before each game and read a script reminding spectators “to please, for lack of better words, ‘behave yourselves in the stands while I play. You know, I really appreciate your support, but we don’t need all the negative comments coming from the stands.
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