Football notebook: QB Wyatt Becker among the offseason’s transfers and coaching changes

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The 2022 high school football season has been over for weeks. For programs that didn’t make the postseason, it’s been over for months.

However, many aspects of a football season never end, do they?

As the fall semester ends and the spring semester begins player transfers occur each year at this time. It’s not surprising anymore to see quarterbacks on the move after a head coaching change or perhaps to seek more playing time.

Notre Dame’s Wyatt Becker, a sophomore quarterback who threw for 2,192 yards and 23 touchdowns this past fall, recently enrolled at Sierra Canyon, which just won the CIF Southern Section Division 2 title.

Two quarterbacks left the Trailblazers’ program within the same week. Sophomore Alonzo Esparza transferred to Los Alamitos and junior Damon Wrighster is transferring to Alemany.

Sierra Canyon’s football program also made an administrative move by hiring Bruce Bible as its head of football operations and athletic assistant. Bible, who came from Los Alamitos, is expected to help the Trailblazers as they try to make the leap to the Division 1 playoffs and bolster the program’s collegiate recruiting.

COACHING MOVES

Castaic High has hired Sirr Guy Shakir as its football head coach after the program’s first-ever coach, Tony Ubelhardt, was told by school principal Vince Ferry it wanted to go in a different direction. Shakir previously coached at Canyon High and College of the Canyons.

Ubelhardt has since committed to be an assistant coach at Hart for the 2023 season. He has coached at Hart in the past.

Thousand Oaks has yet to announce its new football coach. Its former coach, Evan Yabu, is now the head coach at Notre Dame, which has also hired Jake Constantine, a former standout quarterback at Camarillo High and Ventura College, to be its offensive coordinator and quarterbacks coach.