OT: Was your HS good at football?
Where did you go to HS and were they any good at football?
I went to Utica HS in Macomb County. They were not good have never won a playoff game. Only 4 playoff appearances and no state titles despite being one of the oldest teams in the state.
They do play Romeo HS for a Little Brown Jug that was started in 1948.
Curious to see what football pedigree some on the board came from and if it was big at their school.
Hartland High School. When I was there the only thing we were good at was cheerleading. I have no idea if they are good now.
Salem High baby! Virginia 2A state champs in 96, 98, 99, 2000, 04, and 05! Unfortunately we're the Spartans but we have the colors right- maroon and grey.
Nope, down here in Mexico, only a few private schools and some large public schools have football programs. There is a ton of interest (and fans) up North, in Monterrey, for example, people bleed football, and they have various leagues for kids 4 and up.
Unfortunately, I moved there when I was older so I never really had a chance to play. Once I got even older I moved again so my kids also haven't had a chance to play.
Mostly everything else is all soccer related, but there are tons of fans all over the country, the 2 most common teams are the Steelers (my dad actually goes to at least one Steelers game a year) and the Cowboys. You can get most NFL games down here every weekend on local TV and also the main college bowl games.
Although Verska was and will always be awesome, we most certainly were not good for that long of a stretch. We were great in '97, and pretty good in his last year, '01, but besides that, in every year, before, in between and after, we were pretty goddamn awful. And the only coach I recall us firing in the past 20 years is the one who thought it'd be good idea to punch a student. The rest ran simply away in horror.
I was a sophomore that year and got called up from JV for that game, so I got a front row seat to that horror. We were the #1 team in the state for most of that season with a very close loss to another powerhouse team as the only smudge on our record (and that was also I think the only game where the opponent was even within single digit points to us). Monroe wasn't supposed to even compete with us that game. Like you said, it was a huuuuuuge upset that no one saw coming except for those Monroe players.
Holy shit Class D? The enrollment of class D schools is smaller than my graduating class '14.
are on the other end of she spectrum. 7-8 hundred student classes.
That ceremony must have sucked.
I graduated in '14 and yes, we are very average now. It was a fun run with Kirk and A.J. though, and it's always great to see them come back to the school as often as they do. Two great men.
Herron, Maurice clarett, Korey stringer, Ross browner, Paul warfield, Dave Herron, Chris Rucker, and plenty more division 1 athletes I can't think of off the top of my head.
Used to be a perennial powerhouse in d-1 ohio. After the 70s, our best years were in the early 2000s.
I went to Romulus High school from 1996-2000. We traditionally have been very bad, except for my Junior and Senior years. We have made the playoffs 5 times total as far as I know.
I was however, able to play on the same team as former Michigan commit and Iowa back Fred Russell. It sure was fun watching him run for almost 400 yds against Sturgis in the first round back in 98.
I personally didn't see the field in the junior year playoffs. Then, unfortunately I had to miss the second round playoff game my senior year due to a heart problem that showed itself in the first playoff game.
I went to Stevenson High School (the one in Lincolnshire, IL, not the one in MI), graduated way back in 2000. We made the playoffs every year I was there, including reaching the final 4 my Freshman year. Unless the streak was snapped after I left, we've made the playoffs for something like 30 straight seasons now. In 2014 they finally won state, for the first time in history. They also won men's basketball in the 2014-15 season as well, behind star Jalen Brunson, who sadly chose to go to Villanova over Michigan (he did have an offer from us).
you had one hell of a wrestling program.
This is true. Unfortunately kinda like Michigan was once great at football we are no longer looked at as a great wrestling school. I think most people around here would trade wrestling success for football though.
We got beat down there, when I went there. But the folks were really nice. The Wrestlers really good sports, winning or losing.
Regnier, the coach, retired. I was a senior in '69 when we won our first state championship with him as coach.
I won't say where I went to school, but it was in the suburbs of Detroit. The football team was awful. It was widely known through the school that the QB was all coked up. I hated the school and didn't play any sports. I wanted to go to Pershing, as that's where I had a lot of friends. I regularly worked out with the Pershing football team & ran with the track team until I was asked to join track & admitted I wasn't a student there. :)
I was shocked the year following my graduation when my school actually beat Pershing in a scrimmage. I wasn't shocked that the reason they won was someone from my school called someone from Pershing an unkind name beginning with an N, then most of Pershing's team was thrown from the game for fighting.
I did end up playing a season of semipro... I was the worst player on a 1-win team that only won that one game against another 1-win team... they beat us. We won on an interception return by a former Doughboy! One of our games was against the Seminoles... at halftime we were down 44--0 (they stopped throwing the ball in the 2nd.)
Not a great football factory by any means. Played linebacker on varsity teams that went 4-8 and 3-9 my Jr. & Sr. years. Not known for football, but school has multiple city and state championships in baseball, swimming, and soccer. I think we had 100+ people in our stands once in my career. Nothing to brag about at all.
12 game regular seasons?!
In Michigan it's only a 9 game regular season.
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Millard North Class of 2006 right here. That 2003 team was the best high school team I've ever seen in Nebraska. Won the title with its 3rd string QB, who ended up playing LB at Iowa (Jeff Tarpinian).
I went to Port Huron. We were historically pretty terrible, but have made the playoffs 9 out of the last 12 years.
Wealthy small town school on the Connecticut shoreline, state champs in football one year I was there, runner-up another year. I played in the band.
I went to Cranbrook. I was considered one of our "better" players and I wasnt very good.
We were awful.
But the good news is we were good at soccer decades before anybody in the US gave a shit about it.
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Chaminade-Julienne in Dayton, Ohio. We won the Division II state title during my time there. That team had several FBS players on it, most notably, Javon Ringer (MSU) and Brandon Harrison (Michigan).
Yes.
5A State Champs when I was in 7th & 10th grades, respectively.
We were a brand new high school in 1986. Had no football team in grade 9, a junior team in grade 10 and lost every game. We all voted to make a senior team and lost every game that year, except the last. The next year we won a championship. That was awesome.
Went to Livonia Franklin. We were not a good football team, but ended up being just under .500 for most of my playing career. My sophomore year, I played JV, but our varsity missed the playoffs barely. Lost three games all year to a state champion (Sterling Heights Stevenson), and 2 state runner-ups (Farmington Hills Harrison, and Walled Lake Western). After that, we went back to being sub .500. Lately, the teams have been making the playoffs.
I attended an all-girls school, but our powder puff football team was dominant!
My school, Benedictine in Detroit, produced Derrick Alexander and that was about it. School shut down about 10 years ago and the football field is gone. In my four years there, they may have made it to the state tournament once.