Football: January marks start of off-season training

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The football season is supposed to end with the CIF state bowl games on Dec. 19 and 20, but that allows only a couple of weeks off for the true believers.

Year-round training has become a must for those underclassmen seeking a college scholarship, and one organization, B2G Sports, begins its weekly group training sessions Jan. 11 at Los Angeles Cathedral.

Lots of top players participated last season, including Narbonne defensive back Byron Moore Jr., who has committed to USC.

Held on Sunday afternoons, the training sessions are supposed to ‘make clutch performances natural.’ What they probably do is give players exposure and preparation against good competition.

B2G Sports certainly is developing a track record, with four USC recruits as former participants.

There will be lots of competitions, camps, combines and clinics coming up, just another sign the off-season has disappeared in high school football because no one wants to be left behind in the bid for a college scholarship.

-- Eric Sondheimer