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Las Vegas Sun file
Bishop Gorman football coach Tony Sanchez (left) and quarterback Anu Solomon during the 2011 season.
Thursday, Dec. 6, 2012 | 12:16 p.m.
The Bishop Gorman High football team won its fourth straight Nevada state championship last Saturday.
The more important victory, however, won’t be determined for a few years. That’s what Gaels’ coach Tony Sanchez told Sports Illustrated last week when he was selected as their high school coach of the week.
“I always tell the kids, our success of our football will not be determined with how this season goes,” Sanchez says on his profile video on the magazine’s website. “It will be 10 years from now. When these kids are 28 years old, have they graduated from college? Are they productive members of society? Are they good husbands? Are they good fathers? Are they contributing to this good country we live in? If they are doing so, then we won this year.”
Sanchez is 56-4 is his four-year tenure at Gorman, including a 63-10 victory against Liberty for the state title.
Anu Solomon, the Gaels’ four-year starting quarterback who surpassed the 10,000-passing-yard plateau during the state title game, was picked as the magazine’s high school player of the week on the same week. He's committed to the University of Arizona and holds every significant Nevada passing record. Solomon’s video is awesome.
Congratulations to both.
Best coach in Southern Nevada. Haulk and UNLV should come over and take notes.
Gorman isn't even a local school. It's private and most of the players come here to go to USC, Texas and Alabama..
This isn't a home team, its entertainment.
ever hear about Las Vegas high or Basic high recruiting?
Props to Gorman for their season. maybe they can move their school to Wyoming/Idaho to get a tax break or something.....
Probably considered a Gorman Hater by the overzealous parents, but have never questioned the character of the kids or coach. Props on the awards, Anu and Coach Sanchez.
By the way Notch, reveal your true identity so we peasants can bow to your superiority as a human being and lower our eyes when you approach.
Tmstffrd...ah yes a school that was established in this town (1954) before 99% of the people currently living here arrived. Totally not local.
Notch don't be a DB.
Very cool. But don't get too carried away with claiming Gorman's coaches or team are superior to UNLV. The difference in the two levels is vast. Any Division I college football team would destroy Gorman.
I doubt Coach Sanchez would do any better than Hauck if Sanchez had to recruit and compete against teams with better support and facilities than he has.
Congrats to both on award. A special congrats to Solomon, he is a great young man, always has been and always will be. I am so proud of him, Arizona is getting someone special.
Nothing against the kids at Gorman, but none of their coaches should receive any honors locally due to the advantage they have to get any kid not only in the city, but the country to come to their school with none of the red tape that occurs when public school kids transfer from school to school & have to sit out. Also, let's not forget the multi-million dollar athletic/training facility they have that NO public school has on thier campus. It's time for Gorman to get on a nationalh level and stop competing for NIAA state titles. I know all of the Gorman supporters will call it whining, but it is what it is; get them out or eliminate the current ublic school transfer policy, then schools can load up the way Gorman has.
Tmstffrd you have to realize that four years isn't that long of a time. 4 years ago, they were murdered by Palo Verde. True, Gorman will not be a normal team again for a very long time, but in every city it started out with one private school.
It's just how the world works. When you reach state, you have won it all. Playing Gorman is just the bonus mission. They don't count. Having played four years in this town I know this.