INLAND FIELDHOUSE

1. Parity in the Big VIII League — To varying degrees, both Corona Centennial (3-1) and Norco (3-1) have slipped. Riverside Norco (4-0) looks fit and poised to make some noise. Is there room for a third in the upper echelon? Oh, and this was the season Eastvale Roosevelt (1-3) was set to make a jump.

2. Huge Receivers — North’s Aaron Peck (6-foot-4) and Marcus Baugh (6-5), Roosevelt’s Brandon Zuidema (6-5), San Bernardino Pacific’s Haneef Hill (6-5) … this list goes on. It used to be that big receivers played end, and not out wide. Time’s have changed. The school’s most talented (read: tall) basketball players now line up outside the hash marks.

3. Defensive Backs One Foot Too Short — Maybe it’s the size of these receivers that forms an optical illusion, but this season’s crop of DBs looks like they’d almost all fit into one mid-sized sedan. Even Centennial Isaac Colunga, widely considered the Inland Area’s premier DB, stands a mere 5-foot-6. 

4. Inland Valley League Shuffle — So the top of the deck may not change (Moreno Valley Rancho Verde) but all the other cards are on the move. MoVal Valley View and Riverside La Sierra are both unbeaten, and Riverside Ramona is much improved, while Riverside Arlington and MoVal Vista del Lago have struggled.    

AND MORE: Scrambling Quarterbacks — It seems there’s little place — or time — for QBs who cannot move outside the pocket. Rancho Cucamonga Dmitri Morales, North’s Justin Gheorghe, Norco’s Coltin Gerhart and dozens of other Inland Area signal callers have already rushed for more than 100 yards in a game. FOMB wonders… have there been that many QBs whom have pass for more than 300 yards in a game?