October 27th, 2013 at 7:22 PM ^
Division 1- Detroit Cass Tech
Division 2- Brother Rice
Division 3- Grand Rapids Christian
Division 4- South Christian
Division 5- Portland
Division 6- Ithaca (51 straight wins, ties National Record)
Division 7- Ishpeming
Division 8- Harbor Beach
October 27th, 2013 at 8:02 PM ^
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October 27th, 2013 at 8:42 PM ^
Ishpeming is looking good again. Negaunee (D6) gave them a run for their money, they could advance a few rounds in their respective playoffs. Go UP!
October 27th, 2013 at 8:43 PM ^
Quick point of clarification. Ithaca's 51 game winning streak ties the longest CURRENT winning streak, not the national record. Concord De La Salle (CA) holds the record at 151 games.
October 27th, 2013 at 7:25 PM ^
Is this seriously a topic of interest on the board nowadays!?!
October 27th, 2013 at 7:37 PM ^
October 27th, 2013 at 7:45 PM ^
I can't tell if this is serious or sarcastic......
I could understand there being a thread on a guy we are recruiting, but not necessarily a general "Have a seat over there........" High School football theread.
October 27th, 2013 at 7:53 PM ^
you do realize this thread would have about 600 posts if it was in Ohio, Pennsylvania, Florida, Louisiana, or Texas?...
October 27th, 2013 at 7:57 PM ^
You think this is crazy?
Go down to Ohio, Florida, Pennsylvania, Texas, California.
That's what they live and breathe. Go down to Massillon, OH. Every baby born there gets an orange Massillon Tigers football in their crib at the hospital.
They made a documentary on it. And the Massillon-McKinley game is the only high school game that has a betting line in Vegas (according to the documentary).
October 27th, 2013 at 8:55 PM ^
They have a practice facility that cost 3 million. Insane.
October 27th, 2013 at 11:35 PM ^
and the 5A (D-1 largest division) title game had 49,000 people in attendance at Jerry's World to watch a high school football game.
October 27th, 2013 at 8:11 PM ^
Ah yes, because it's creepy to care about the actual game of football, but totally fair to have posts about grown men and women following the players in said games as they decide where to go to college?
October 27th, 2013 at 8:25 PM ^
Because threads about recruiting high school players is perfectly fine, but discussing playoff matchups is over the top.
Also gushing over guys aged 18-22 is perfectly fine, but it's creepy for high school.
October 27th, 2013 at 8:53 PM ^
A lot of people (likely most of them) are from Michigan on this board. Many of us grew up watching or even playing for/against a lot of these high school football teams. Heck, a few may even have family that are current members of some of the teams in question. What the heck is so creepy about continuing to support something that is a part of your community? As others of said to you, us and the state of Michigan in general is a bit tame in how we support high school football. In many other states, we'd being running a live blog on the frontpage of the site that everyone would be contributing to while they're celebrating at a rowdy watch party. So yeah, there's not a darn thing wrong with this thread.
October 27th, 2013 at 9:56 PM ^
I think you've been spending too much time with your avatar.
October 27th, 2013 at 7:38 PM ^
October 27th, 2013 at 8:08 PM ^
October 27th, 2013 at 8:15 PM ^
part of that majority.
If not for this thread, I would have missed the entire selection show. As it was I missed the first half, but used the link to visit the MHSAA website.
October 27th, 2013 at 8:30 PM ^
AGreed. I'm not dying to know, but it is interesting. A lot of us are alums of these schools or went to a HS that played a lot of these schools. Its interesting
October 27th, 2013 at 7:31 PM ^
If you are unable to watch the show, the MSHAA site will have the pairings available shortly after 8 PM.
This is also on the site (HERE) and supposedly will be available on Monday afternoon. They will apparently have an explanation of selections with maps included. It sounded interesting anyway.
October 27th, 2013 at 7:31 PM ^
Yes, it's a topic of interest.
Here's my problem: too many divisions. At most there should be 4. How can you call yourself a state champion when there are eight others? Personally I would vote for two or three divisions, either large/small, or giant/large/small. 8 is just way too many.
Also, go Hematites.
October 27th, 2013 at 7:42 PM ^
October 27th, 2013 at 8:11 PM ^
In New York, basketball is similar to that. There are three separate state tournaments. There's the public tournament, the independent non-religious tournament, and then the catholic tournament. However, there are only enough catholic schools in New York City, Long Island, and Buffalo to have a separate tourney, so the catholic teams in other places are (generally) accepted in the public tournament. There are separate divisions based on size and historic performance in each separate tourney. At the end, the top finishers in each tournament get together for a Federated Cup tournament. It's a hacked-together system that really favors the independent schools, and to a much lesser extent the catholic schools, at least as far as making the Federation finals (because they have a much smaller pool of schools to compete against).
It's not perfect by any means. Actually, it kind of stinks in a lot of ways. But I still prefer it to having 8 different state champions.
October 27th, 2013 at 7:42 PM ^
I would like to see 4-5 divisions this would be simply done by making 6-3 the required minimum record. Too many 5-4 teams make the playoffs. I know it's an opportunity for kids to have playoff games but honestly most of the time those teams are matched up with 8-1 or 9-0 teams and get simply hammered.
October 27th, 2013 at 9:43 PM ^
6 wins automatically gets you a spot in the playoffs (5 if you only played 8 games). This year, there were 225 teams that automatically qualified. They had to fill the other 31 spots with teams who had 5 wins and the highest playoff points.
By the way, Mo Ways, Lawrence Marshall, Malik McDowell, Alex Malzone, and I don't know how many other current recruits are in the playoffs. So yea, it's a worthy topic.
Finally, I'm the DC for one of the teams in D7.
October 28th, 2013 at 8:35 AM ^
Any one know how the 5-4 teams are selected? For example, East Garnd Rapids finished 5-4 and more "playoff points" then a 5-4 team like Wayland. Wayland makes the playoffs, East Grand Rapids does not. Is it because there were already 2 teams from their conference in the playoffs?
October 28th, 2013 at 11:06 AM ^
Due to the low number of auto-qualifiers in D1, a bunch of teams on the borderline got bumped up to fill the vacancies. That caused a trickle effect, and EGR was bumped up to D2. In D2, there were only 2 at-large teams: UofD (67.514) and Oak Park (62.111). EGR has 60.111 points and found themselves out of the loop, unfortunately.
October 28th, 2013 at 12:00 PM ^
That makes sense, but how do they determine who gets bumped up? I thought it was enrollment, but schools like Zeeland, Byron Center and Mt. Plesant all have larger enrollments than EGR. Wouldn't they get bumped up first?
October 28th, 2013 at 12:25 PM ^
October 28th, 2013 at 12:41 PM ^
DId they change it recently? It used to be they went by class designation, not division, to fill out the playoffs. I believe after the auto qualifiers they take the highest scoring class A team, then class B, C, D, A, and so on.
October 28th, 2013 at 1:40 PM ^
They do, in essence but the line for each division still floats every year. To fill out D1, they have to go as far down the enrollment list as required to complete the bracket. This year, for instance, Walled Lake Western (1556 students) and Flint Carmen-Ainsworth (1488) are in D1. Last year, Western went to the semi-finals in D2.
October 28th, 2013 at 1:52 PM ^
Upon further review, class designation doesn't seem to carry definitive weight. Haslet (907 students) is listed as the last Class A school on the MHSAA website. Stevensville Lakeshore (892) is the first on Class B. They are both playing in the D3 playoff bracket.
October 28th, 2013 at 10:54 AM ^
Guess I worded it poorly. I would say 6-3 would be the "filler" teams. Like you said a complete division (32 teams) almost could have been eliminated by not using 5-4 teams.
Finally, good luck on your playoff run, small school playoffs are a lot of fun. D7 Espeically could be interesting with Harbor Beach moving from D8 (Defending State Champs) up to D7 this fall.
October 28th, 2013 at 1:55 PM ^
We have a chance at a District title. Anything beyond that would be the makings of "Remember the Titans II"
October 27th, 2013 at 7:35 PM ^
I can't believe my alma mater, Mona Shores is in the playoffs. They SUCKED hard all four years I was a sailor. GO SAILORS!!!!
October 27th, 2013 at 8:05 PM ^
Utica misses the playoffs again at 4-5. Even though we rushed a rival schools field Friday night like we won the state title. Perks of being a senior I guess.
Consolation prize we will take is none of the local rivals making it in including Eisenhower's 14 year playoff streak ending.
October 27th, 2013 at 8:03 PM ^
I'll say it: I don't get adults who follow high school sports played by minor children who aren't their kids.
October 27th, 2013 at 8:10 PM ^
I personally think there is a HUGE difference between "Hometown Pride" and following a local high school team vs following individual minors who are being recruited. I agree it is sketchy for grown adults to follow high school kids twitter/facebook/etc. Going to watch an alma mater or following a school where you live is different.
October 27th, 2013 at 8:11 PM ^
I'll say it. I don't get others who lay judgement upon others. Judge not lest ye be judged.
you do realize some of us are just rooting for our former high schools (god forbid), are teachers (Go Livonia Franklin), live in the local communities, or have children on the teams.
October 27th, 2013 at 8:19 PM ^
What Professor X said.
Bando, seriously, I don't get your opposition. High school sports are fun. Are you saying it's creepy somehow to follow or enjoy activities or performances of people under 18 years old? Because, you know, Mozart, and things.
October 28th, 2013 at 9:22 AM ^
I was a grad in '99 from Franklin. I still live in the area, my kids will go there, and I still go to the games to see my friend's kids play.
October 27th, 2013 at 8:12 PM ^
Do you follow recruiting? Because if so, I'm not sure where the argument is coming from.
October 27th, 2013 at 8:45 PM ^
I do not.
October 28th, 2013 at 12:47 PM ^
October 28th, 2013 at 2:49 PM ^
That's my general rule, yes. I'm not really interested in following high school sports, nor keeping track of things like kids' bench press numbers or ACT scores. It's just not my thing.
October 27th, 2013 at 8:16 PM ^
October 27th, 2013 at 8:19 PM ^
You don't get a lot of things, do you?
October 27th, 2013 at 8:25 PM ^
grew up and still live in small towns where high school sports are a large part of community involvement and pride. Also F off.