Defeating OSU in Columbus in 2000 set the stage for a great year in 2001. Second, while the final selection of Gardner is with merit, to me there is no debate. Farmington Hills Harrison is entering its final season this fall after the (my) school district decided the building that most resembled a prison was the least worth keeping. 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This article originally appeared on Detroit Free Press: Michigan high school football state finals: Here's who won this year, Picking the winners for all 8 divisions at Ford Field, Warren De La Salle 52, Grand Rapids Forest Hills Central 13, Grand Rapids West Catholic 59, Negaunee 14, Grand Rapids South Christian 28, Goodrich 0. Sports Gambling Podcast. But back in David Harris's day there were four GR high schools, and Ottawa Hills started every year against state powerhouses East Kentwoodand East Grand Rapids, and held their own against the big Catholic schools, not to mention an annual rivalry game with Muskegon. 1985 Football Finals. Foote and he are similar players. New in-state offer: 2026 OT Khalief Canty, Jr. New in-state offer: 2025 DE Xavier Newsom, Erin Virtue hired as U-M volleyball head coach, Rumor: Gattis Could be out as OC at Miami. $24.99 + $3.00 shipping . By his senior season he was by consensus one of the best middle linebackers in the country, ran away with the Gatorade Player of the Year honors, and added tight end and fullback to his positional list despite missing a few weeks to injury. Backup: Chuck Winters, St. Martin de PorresThe rest of the field: Julius Curry, Charles Stewart, Earnest Sanders, Greg Cooper, Brian Cole, Jaylen Kelly-Powell. I've got to go back to shorter writeups. Many came out as three-stars already close to their college potential, a fact rivals mocked them with (at least pre-Drew Stanton) even though it was just more evidence that John Herrington was better than everybody else at turning wussy ass suburban kids into football players. His 2000 season was the platform for a true Heisman campaign for 2001. 1. These are the most prized high school football players in high school football history. 4 of 8 state champions from within the borders of good ol' Muskegon County - 12th in the state in population at just 170,000. We would focus in part on the . But for most of that time the bulk of those guys went to Michigan State. Though the school has "Ottawa" in the name,it's inKentCounty, close to the heart of GR. Moore helped lead Louisville to the MHSAA Class 4A championship. The Wolverines also finished second in the 1985 Associated Press poll, and have. Drew was a far better QB. United Arab Emirates, United Kingdom, United States . Both came highly raw; Foote was a safety who arrived malnourished and filled out into a star linebacker and eventual NFL star. Here's another great player from Saginaw, but Sword went to the other big school in town, Arthur Hill, named for the lumbering and shipping magnate who graduated from Michigan during the Civil War, and went back to make his city into the most important civic center in the Thumb region. Warning: Jock Jams, '90s style video editing effects. Thanks, I obviously completely forgot about him. Thank You Bob Ufer! . The 1985 Michigan Wolverines football team represented the University of Michigan in the 1985 Big Ten Conference football season.In their 17th year under head coach was Bo Schembechler, the Wolverines compiled a 10-1-1 record, outscored all opponents by a combined total of 342 to 98, defeated five ranked opponents (including three in a row to start the season), suffered its sole loss . Wyandotte Roosevelt's Max Biundo runs the ball during a game against Allen Park at the Xenith Prep Kickoff Classic at Wayne State University in Detroit on . If the worst player in the history Cass Tech football (according to his coach, multiple times) was 1963-'66 lineman Rob (father of Seth) Fisher, the greatest is Jourdan Lewis. 5A. Donovan Peoples-Jones put Cass up with a punt return touchdown but that was upstaged by Hill's 85-yard catch. PLAYER OF THE YEAR Nick Kopin, Hudson, Sr. Moore was named The Associated Press Player of the Year for Division 3-4 by a panel of sportswriters from across the state of Michigan. Foote played some SAM during his career and as a former safety he can stay on the field as a hybrid space player so this pick isn't that crazy, even though Foote was way more of a Devin Bush than Khaleke Hudson. Weston Dressler set the state record with a 10.44-second time in the 100-meter dash but is also one of the greatest high school football players in state history. Here was another Michigan coaching legend, Al Fracassa, who arrived at Rice the same year Bo came to Michigan. I kind of agree with Gardner over Henson. you frequently suggest its the best team on the field -- this is an entirely better team with Henson. The newspaper also selects a USA Today High School Football Coach of the Year. The football field, named for an important community member who kept the city's education system afloat as rest belt economics took hold, sits on the site of the old train station and overlooks the tracks. BTW the rest of this team is fantastic. In reply to Yes the line was poor, very by UcheWallyWally. MHSFCA Michigan High School Football Coaches Association. Watch: Chippewa Valley vs. Clarkston Division 1 title game highlights. Also the parents had to shine car lights on the field for late practices because Crockett had no lights of their own. Ask Demorest, whose Seaholm Maples faced the Hawks in the playoffs his sophomore and junior years, how tough the green and yellow were. Since 1997 the head coach of Cass Tech has been former Michigan running back Thomas Wilcher, best known in his collegiate career for the collective groan when Jamie Morris came out and the big track player replaced him. At football he led Lapeer East to its first state playoff win and its best season in school history. Backup: Mark Campbell, Bishop FoleyThe rest of the field: Martell Webb, Shawn Thompson, Carson Butler, Brian Thompson, Rob Vander Leest, Mike Kwiatkowski, Michael Jocz, Chris McLaurin, Kevin Murphy. If I was going for accuracy I would have said "barely concealed garbage heap.". You are right about the good restaurants though. Lentz himself grew up on a 21-acre farm with 12 horses. Muskegon Michigan High School 1902 Football Team Picture VERY RARE . He was also a star point guard for the basketball team. Brandt was there in a different time, when Jenison was a regional power and regularly producing what we'd today call 4-star talent. There is a discussion I would like to have with my cousin, Jim, a former University of Michigan linebacker, a high school football coach and a lifetime gridiron fan. Nice to see the boys from my hometown (Saginaw) make the list. As much as I love my hometown, calling Mt. USA Today named its first All-USA high school football team in 1982. Latest news, updates and scores emailed to you daily. In reply to Key is "if he had returned. This gives us a pool of 171 players to choose from whose careers most of us are somewhat familiar with. Sofran was fired and the job went to Fracassa's former DC, Adam Korzeniewski, who had been coordinating Seaholm's defense. 1 min read HILLSDALE CTY Every year, the Michigan High School Football Coaches Association releases awards voted on by the MHSFCA for Michigan prep football.. The much-beloved coach was just 57. Anyway he shined, playing linebacker, left guard, kicker and punter as he earned an honorable mention all-Detroit as a sophomore and led Crockett to a state championship as a junior. 2. NEW HAVEN REGISTER ALL-STATE BOYS' BASKETBALL TEAMS 1949. But I don't think he was really all-anything. The star player on the 2016 state championship team was all-state guard Tyler Johnson, who became a two-time All-Big Ten wide receiver at the University of Minnesota and won a Super Bowl as a rookie with the Tampa Bay Buccaneers in 2021. In reply to I'd also takeDPJ over by HarbaughsLeftElbow. Various media sources have selected national high . Yeah. Boys Season. In reply to Can I selfishly* suggest by Steve Sprague. The 2021 Detroit Free Press All-State teams, from Divisions 1 to 8, as selected by special writer Mick McCabe: . 26. . The 8-player all-state team was announced on Monday, followed by the Division 7-8 team on Tuesday and the Division 5-6 team on Wednesday. But it is part of the Grand Rapids school district, which has a bunch of specialty schools but today has just two "real" high schools, the other being Union (swanky East GR and Kentwood are separate districts). Desmond Morgan also played there. because you can't sue us if we warn you. Historically Wyandotte was the sandy beach where the people (Hurons) lived and traded while Detroit was the fort town protecting the narrowest point of the river. I graduated from there in 02 (did not play football); what a crazy time to go there. Notre Dame NT Paul Grasmanis had played there recently and Brandt drew favorable comparisons as he collected various All-American honors. Crockett went undefeated in the regular season as long as he was there, building a foundation for the program that would eventually merge with Finney at the newly constructed East English Village High (where Khalid Hill went). . Good list and thanks for compiling. He was set on going to Cincy when Michigan got to signing day with a few extra spots in 2012 class, and after grabbing Willie Henry extended an offer to Norfleet. Needless to say we followed Jourdan's career closely long before he agreed to tell his story on MGoBlog. MICK McCABE:Warren De La Salle's Triston Nichols, somehow, helps win state title with a torn ACL? DPS reports offer some clues. 2022. I won't lie: we don't say nice things about Brother Rice around here, partly because it's the stuffy private school whose students have a local reputation for ungentlemanly conduct when about town, and mostly because they've been very good at beating all of us in football for a very long time. Coach Sahadi would go on to serve as a scouting coordinator for Lloyd for one season but passed away only a year later. 13. . Wilcher is also the AD and track coach at Cass. Division 7: Jackson Lumen Christi 15, Traverse City St. Francis 12. He transferred to Inkster, following coach Greg Carter from recently closed Saint Martin de Porres, and exploded, leading them to two straight state finals. Of course WARF was going to make an All-MGoBlog roster. Finally retired from a long NFL career, Harris hosted a camp at Houseman Field last weekend. The rest of the field: Kenny Allen, Ross Ryan, Mark Spencer, Paul Peristeris, Cory Sargent, Jay Vinson. Advertisement 3. Leahy had so . The football team today competes against the Forest Hills (the Eastern suburbs) schools in the OK-White division, and recently hasn't been very good. Watching him compete in track was mindblowing. Meet the 2021 Michigan high school football All-State teams, Divisions 1-8. In reply to As great as Wheatley was as by blanx. Lentz's high school was opened in 1982, with the old high school becoming the middle school and the middle school becoming the elementary. In reply to Don't forget Jerry Ford's by rob f. And I think South High would have played home games in Uncle Jerrys day at South Field, located on Madison south of Wealthy. Braylon, as we covered in the three-star article, grew up in Detroit while his father Stan was with the Lions and trained with his dad from a young age. Switch him and Drews place in UM history and Brady Hoke mite still be around and John Navarre probably ends up starting in 2000 over Gardner, In reply to Its irrelevant and frankly by UcheWallyWally. Led by junior running back and future NFL star Maurice Jones-Drew, the 5-7 bulldozer racked up 1,043 yards and 22 touchdowns on just 75 touches during the 2001 season (13.9 YPC). DIVISION TWO No local. Yes the line was poor, very poor. PREVIOUS DIVISON ; VIEW DIVISION III RESULTS; SHARE YOUR TEAM'S . Ottawa Hills isn't in Ottawa County it's in Kent County. The Free Press named him all-state but it was too late to save his lowly recruiting rankings. That's still well below six feet so he still gets to wear the mantle: Also now that we're finally done with Technicians here's the list of those who played for Michigan in alphabetical order in the Bentley database: Will Campbell (2009-12), Boubacar Cissoko (2008-'09), David Dawson (2013-'16), David Downs (1997-'98), Thomas Gordon (2009-'13), Curtis Greer (1975-'79), Delano Hill (2013-'16), Delonte Hollowell (2011-'14), Harlan Huckleby (1975-'78), Tage Jacobson (1932-'34), Royce Jenkins-Stone (2012-'15), Teric Jones (2009-'10), Archie F. Jordan (1918-'22), Jourdan Lewis (2013-'16), Michael Onwenu (2016-present), Donovan Peoples-Jones (2017-present), Frank K Raiford (1979-'80), Terry Richardson (2012-'15), Pap Sanneh (1993), Tom Seabron (1975-'78), Arnold Simkus (1962-'64), Roosevelt Smith (1976-'79), Clarence Williams (1995-'98), Michael Wilson (1981-'83), and Anthony B. Woodford (1976-'77), Please don't ask Jourdan what he thinks of the Jourdan clones playing for King. Warren De La Salle's Triston Nichols, somehow, helps win state title with a torn ACL? Backups: Maurice Williams, Detroit PershingThe rest of the field: Mark Huyge, Rueben Riley, Ja'Raymond Hall, Jalen Mayfield, Ryan Hayes. Jackson Lumen Christi 15, Traverse City St. Francis 12, Michigan high school football state finals: Here's who won this year. This article was great.except for the reference to the Vietnamese place in Clawson. Despite a reputation for sending too many four-stars to State, Michigan has done fine at MLKin addition to Shazor and Harrison (and Braylon) we got William Cruse, Ed Davis, Shakir Edwards, Henry Hill, Howard Hamilton, Deon Johnson, Walt Kunow, Riley McPhee, Leroy Neisch, Dennis Norfleet, Cecil Pryor, Gary Rose, John Rowser, Jon Saigh, Michael Taylor, Clarence Thompson, William Yearby, and most recently Ambry Thomas. 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