Wow, very sad. Thoughts and prayers with his family and the King Football family as well.
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Harvel was the third coach in Detroit PSL history to win a state football title, joining Jim Reynolds (King) and Wilcher (Cass). Every state football title from the PSL has come since 2007.
rip coach
We never considered them PSL because of their ability to raid PAL like its a farm system, and then the 13-14 King debacle when they raided 5 high schools in one year they made a lot of enemies
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It's not really the time for a post like this.
I was just replying to his comment in no way was it to down play the coach, I didn't know the coach so I don't have any judgement towards him. I am sadden by any death and my condolences go out to his family in their time of mourning.
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FOH!
You are (Yoda)
I made and inappropriate comment at this time, but instead of ragging on me you should be offering your condolences to his family in their time of need
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So what would you say about Cass Tech, who recruits the city more than anyone?
Wasn't he pretty young?
Not sure. Random people search on Google has him in mid fifties. Other than that I can't find anything. I know it was from a heart attack tho.
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RIP coach.
RIP Coach.
Later Detroit News stories list him as being 57.
RIP Coach Harvel.
you went out with King's 2nd State Title and the 4th one ever for the PSL.
During 7 on 7 drills. Rushed to the hospital but couldn't be revived. Very sad. My thoughts are with his family and friends at this time.
http://www.detroitnews.com/story/news/local/detroit-city/2016/07/23/det…
RIP Coach. Hope someone you've trained takes over.
Especially sad for the kids that were there to witness it
Damn. Terrible news. RIP coach.
I wonder if the heat had anything to do with it. He built a great program at King.
Didn't Jim Reynolds build it and hand it off to him when he retired after 2007?
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but Harvel was on his staff for 20+ years, so he had a hand in King's PSL dominance.
Somehow I doubt that the heat was the factor. Two years ago he had a heart attack and had 4 stents put in. So his heart wasn't in the best shape in the first place.
Gotcha. I didn't know that.
To be fair, I just read about it in the Detroit News last night.
The height of of the King program under Jim Reynolds was 1987 -1991. After that the program was not as dominant. The 2007 season was blessing in that there were several DPS schools closing bringing in great talent (Nick Perry) along with Flen (Whitfield) deciding to play football his senior year.
Those teams in the the late 80's and early 90's was stacked with D1 talent.
Darnell Dickerson, Kerwin Moore, Terrence Wheatley, David Bowden, Deon Johnson, Damon Primus, Ed Davis, Clarence Thompson and much more.
There wasn't much left when Reynolds left, Harvel has really built up the talent and honed in on coaching. The teams from the past two years is near the talent level of those teams in the late 80's early 90's.
RIP Coach.