SAN DIEGO (FOX 5/KUSI) -- Scripps Ranch head football coach Marlon Gardinera and offensive coordinator John Taylor are one of the most successful coaching duos San Diego football has ever seen. With Gardinera retiring at the end of the 2025 season, they can reflect on everything they’ve accomplished together.

Giving Scripps Ranch its first winning seasons since 2013, multiple first-place conference finishes, a 2019 sectional runner-up, and, most importantly, a 2021 CIF Division 2-A state championship.

Despite all of these achievements on the field, it’s the principles they’ve instilled in their players that they are most proud of — principles that Taylor will continue to preach when he takes over the head coaching role next year.

“Hard work, commitment, discipline, accountability, learn

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