There were two forces at work in Verdugo landing Lance Evans. Number One….Robb Turner and BullOxen just going out and flat-out stealing him from the Glendale program. The other force was our short two-year HISTORY. It was the efforts of the 1990 and 1991 Teams.
The effort we had made and the strides we were making made our Program the one to play for. There was going to be a NEW bully on the block. And it WASN’T going to be the Glendale Team anymore. Landing Evans was the first of a series of unanswered SHOTS from our Program to theirs. By the end of the ’92 season…the Glendale program had basically been dismantled. Even their coaches quit. We took over their field. And we stripped their Roster again in 1993 by bringing in Gantt, Greenberg, Lister, and Barrett. They were done!!!!
Turner, Bull, 1990, and 1991. That’s how we got him. And it was so great to see the smiling faces of Hank, Weap, General and the rest of our club when we had officially inked him in. But this is what happens when you underestimate Verdugo….
I want to right here THANK the 1990 and 1991 Teams for helping us land Lance Evans. 1990 and 1991 gave us such an identity that the players from GLENDALE HIGH wanted to play for US!!!! And I want to thank Bull and Turner for selling it. Sure, Evans was just one player in the big scheme of things. And he knew that. We never had any “stars” or egos at Verdugo. Evans included. He just wanted to win, and he felt Verdugo was the best place to do it. That’s another thing that made us special. No egos….No stars…ever. Period. All four years.
But this was BIG. And the Verdugo Train kept-a-rollin down the tracks….we were all wondering who would get on board with us next!!!
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