King forced to forfeit league title to Cass Tech due to brawl
Detroit PSL announced today that King will forfeit their spot in the PSL Championship game agaisnt Cass Tech due to a brawl that took place after their PSL semifinal win over Cody HS.
Cass Tech is credited with a 6-0 forfeit victory and the city championship.
Detroit Cody's season has been ended as their coaches have all been suspended. They will not play a 9th game.
October 19th, 2015 at 11:18 PM ^
these two are basically destined to meet in a regional Final (in a rematch of the season opener that MLK won).
MLK will likely have home field even with this loss, but it will make the playoff point situation a whole lot closer.
October 19th, 2015 at 11:40 PM ^
Don't be so quick to annoint DLS the winner of their district. I don't know if you've seen South play but their D is one of the best I've seen in a while in high school without any D1 offers, and I played in a state semi-finals of my own. If they beat Dakota next week DLS could be coming to GP to play that district final
October 19th, 2015 at 11:44 PM ^
I say that as a DLS alum. Thanks for the heads-up on GP South, I didn't know about their D. I admittedly follow Michigan HS football at a bit of a distance (live out-state).
I know GP South was Division 1 in Week 7 (based on the 256 teams that would have made the playoffs after 7 weeks), and Division 2 in Week 8. They are literally right on the edge.
October 19th, 2015 at 11:51 PM ^
Yup they are, but have plenty of potential to jump. I was talking to the strength coach last week, obviously before the King incident, and he said if they won big by 10+ this week they could've got home field over Cass, but that was assuming King beat them. Where they end up should be very interesting
October 19th, 2015 at 11:21 PM ^
good. Fuck King's coaches.
Sucks for their players that we're recruiting, but their head coach is a dickhead.
October 19th, 2015 at 11:33 PM ^
Interesting, what makes you say that? The article I read said that the King coaches basically anticipated trouble, so they told their players to wait on the sideline after the game to let the Cody players leave and avoid trouble. Seems like the right thing to do to me, but I don't know any of the background.
October 19th, 2015 at 11:45 PM ^
He doesn't want to dicuss it.
October 19th, 2015 at 11:25 PM ^
Good.
October 19th, 2015 at 11:35 PM ^
October 19th, 2015 at 11:41 PM ^
there's NO video of this?!?!?! None?? Even a cellphone video in portrait mode? :-)
October 19th, 2015 at 11:59 PM ^
...or the Twitters. Which is pretty amazing -- people record themselves brushing their teeth -- they don't get out a phone when a huge brawl is going on?
And I'll know you'll never believe it, but on Twitter, King people are blaming Cody, while Cody people are blaming King.
What a mess.
October 19th, 2015 at 11:46 PM ^
My grandma taught at Cody from the 1940s through the 1970s. I keep my change in a Cody Comets mug. What a bizarre story.
My mom went to Cooley, and her senior year, there was a similar incident in which their students got in a brawl with a rival school (I think it was Redford High?)--they had to play games with the fans separated. DPS football is serious business.
October 19th, 2015 at 11:57 PM ^
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October 19th, 2015 at 11:57 PM ^
is today's generation of kids, and even some parents have no idea how great the PSL used to be in all aspects of competition.
October 20th, 2015 at 8:24 AM ^
My dad played football for Redford (class of 1960) during the start of their rather nice run in PSL and really as a statewide power. I think that in a 15-year stretch, starting in the late 1950s, the won almost 4 out of every 5 games on average, or so my dad recalls. He still talks about some of those rivalries being intense even when he was in high school.
October 20th, 2015 at 4:55 AM ^
we kept the Cass Tech brawl until after the game.
Of course that was a basketball game because back in those stone ages, Renaissance didn't have a football team.
October 20th, 2015 at 11:06 AM ^
I went to H.S. down the street from Renaissance in the 90s and we were the school with the football team. Always thought it was odd a high school could not have a football team.
October 20th, 2015 at 12:05 PM ^
Renaissance didn't have the bodies to put out a football team, to be quite honest.
October 20th, 2015 at 1:13 PM ^
They increased enrollment, but still kept their rigourous academic standards while growing their athletic teams. That's something King cannot say. Their academic profile has gone downward since 2000 while trying to field the best teams possible.
October 20th, 2015 at 7:35 AM ^
October 20th, 2015 at 12:15 PM ^
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October 20th, 2015 at 12:44 PM ^
October 20th, 2015 at 1:16 PM ^
Or Lavert Hill. Or Ambry Thomas. Or any other King players in the Pipeline 9.
/s
October 20th, 2015 at 8:17 AM ^
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