OT: MHSAA D-1 Football Playoffs
By the looks of the bracket, the upcoming D-1 football playoff games are going to be big matchups. Detroit Southeastern squares off against Sterling Heights Stevenson, and Macomb Dakota plays Clarkston for the chance to play the winner of that game. On the top of the bracket, Detroit Cath. Central plays Canton in a big game, and they play the winner of Rockford and Holt. On a side note: Is Detroit Southeastern the school that Gholston goes to? This looks like one of the tougher years as of late. The school I go to, Rockford, is going to have a tough time getting another title this year. We are undefeated, but we've been extremely lucky so far. Anybody from any of the other HS areas know how good some of the other teams are?
Here's the bracket: http://www.mhsaa.com/LinkClick.aspx?fileticket=h0t4R4TeS1k%3d&tabid=110
November 10th, 2009 at 4:57 PM ^
Yeah Dakota High School - Go Cougars!
November 10th, 2009 at 5:07 PM ^
Clarkston just punished my hometown team, Romeo, last week. I hear they're quite good.
November 10th, 2009 at 5:12 PM ^
D1 is a much better division this year than last. IMO I thought that D2 was much tougher last year than D1 and Rockford took advantage of that (don't get me wrong, I thought Rockford was very good last year). That said I still think west michigan football is much better than east michigan football so I think Rockford has a great chance to repeat. Catholic Central is tough but I'm not sold on Canton or Stevenson (or any other east side team).
Yeah William Ghoalston goes to Southeastern... man among boys.
best of luck to all teams still playing and to get this far, they have done something right.
November 10th, 2009 at 5:19 PM ^
Do they have a Jr. Lb who is very good as well? Lawrence something? Also, Joe Warren is a very bad man, maybe not better than Herbert or Metcalf, but he's in the conversation. Certainly more accomplished though.
November 10th, 2009 at 5:35 PM ^
You may be thinking of Lawrence Thomas who goes to Detroit Renaissance.
November 10th, 2009 at 5:59 PM ^
I just remembered a big time LB from that area who was also a sparty lean. I know SE is a sparty feeder, is thomas's school?
November 10th, 2009 at 6:01 PM ^
I remember hearing that Renaissance is a Sparty feeder, but I'm not totally sure.
November 10th, 2009 at 5:45 PM ^
Western Michigan is much more skilled in football most of the time. The OK Red Conference is probably the best in the state. Rockford and Holt face off almost every year, so it's nothing we haven't seen before. I'm not sure if Rockford has the firepower offensively to win it this year, but our defense is pretty solid. If Munger decides to run the Wishbone or option the rest of the playoffs I think we have a better chance.
November 10th, 2009 at 5:20 PM ^
fellow rockford alum...class of 2002.
GO RAMS!
November 10th, 2009 at 5:46 PM ^
You still live in the area and/or go to any games?
November 10th, 2009 at 6:01 PM ^
...Rockford is the USC to our Washington State, no sugarcoat.
November 10th, 2009 at 6:24 PM ^
Well what team would Wash State be in this scenario?
November 10th, 2009 at 6:36 PM ^
Grandville, but maybe that's a bad comparison... I don't know. Definitely inferior at this point. Rockford can be USC though.
November 10th, 2009 at 6:36 PM ^
I wouldn't say Grandville is as bad as a USC WSU comparison, but Rockford definitely beats them consistently.
November 10th, 2009 at 7:07 PM ^
Maybe USC-UCLA, Grandville used to have great games with Rockford but they fell off a bit lately. I don't know about you, but Grandville's biggest rival is Rockford. Maybe a MSU-UM thing where "ooh we want to beat you so bad, ooh" and "meh" are the modes of thought. Just asking if rockford feels similar.
November 10th, 2009 at 7:17 PM ^
There is definitely a rivalry there, but nothing like what it used to be. We probably have a bigger rivalry right now with Muskegon and probably Hudsonville because of the big games with them. We definitely want to win against Grandville but we also expect to beat them I guess.
November 10th, 2009 at 8:36 PM ^
Fair enough. Honestly that game was everything a few years back. Grandville's talent has really hit a wall after Hawken (now MSU's starting fullback) left. Pity, we used to compete year in and year out. Now in the OK-Red we lose to the teams we are supposed to lose to, and do pretty well otherwise.
November 11th, 2009 at 10:28 PM ^
You see the key to winning for these schools is one thing...
Roids
November 11th, 2009 at 11:08 PM ^
Not true... High School steroid use is pretty low overall, so I doubt that. If anything, players would use supplements like creatine (spell check?). But look at Rockford and we are mostly small white kids.
November 10th, 2009 at 6:07 PM ^
i grew up in the cannon township area. i live in downtown grand rapids now. i get to home games on occasion, but probably wont make it to any playoff games this year.
November 10th, 2009 at 6:13 PM ^
All I know is holy shit GP South made the playoffs for the first time in forever. That is awesome.
And then we got last year's championship game loser in the first round and got shut out. Argh. My dad's a DLS grad, I hope he didn't notice.
November 10th, 2009 at 7:13 PM ^
since the Rice/Hepner years i think?? - when we not only would go to the playoffs almost every year, but beat the F out of North too.
November 11th, 2009 at 11:36 AM ^
No, I'm sure we went once about eight or so years ago. I think it was the year after I graduated. (Awesome timing.)
November 10th, 2009 at 6:50 PM ^
went to detroit renaissance, played at canton
yes, i dont think canton wins this weekend (but ill be rooting for them)
rockford scares me tho. i dont buy that rockford has been lucky this year.
November 10th, 2009 at 7:01 PM ^
Our team has had multiple 4th quarter comebacks this year after playing pretty poor offense most of the game. Now, the fourth quarter comebacks thing is great, and it shows a lot about the team. At the same time, however, it can be slightly concerning that we can't score as well in the first half of some games. In the end we can definitely win the title, but it won't be easy.
BTW... Has Canton ever won a state title? I remember we beat them in '05, but wasn't sure if they had won it before that.
November 10th, 2009 at 8:43 PM ^
I go to CC. Our D is sick. We've only let up 30 points in 11 games. Stevenson and White didn't score, and Bolden (PSU commit) and St. Mary's didn't score a single point either time they played us.
November 10th, 2009 at 9:22 PM ^
We are so good this year. If we don't win a state championship this year is a failure.
November 10th, 2009 at 9:32 PM ^
Rockford can score points, but they don't always play well. Our defense is pretty good, though. D is definitely the strength of our team.
November 11th, 2009 at 1:06 AM ^
I can barely keep track of my D-3 alma mater, East Grand Rapids.
November 11th, 2009 at 10:29 PM ^
Just know that EGR will win the state title again
November 12th, 2009 at 2:21 PM ^
I'm still bitter we lost to Mill Coleman and Farmington Hills Harrison, 3-2, in the ice bowl semifinal in Fall 1989.
November 11th, 2009 at 11:26 PM ^
on Warren De La Salle.
They of the back to back finals appearances. It bodes well for the ol' alma mater that Muskegon is nowhere to be found.