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.
Yes.
We were not - until after I graduated in 1992 (details below):
During my time there, we were the smallest school in Division I football with a total student population of just over 1,000.
We were in what was called the Great Lakes League, and played against schools averaging between 5,000 and 6,000 students.
We would trot out about 40 guys, of which most were sophomores and those juniors not yet disheartened by getting your ass beat every week.
We would play against schools like Toledo Whitmer, who would roll out 125 players on the field, and have another 75 in the stands as reserves (believe Max dress # was 125 at the time).
Many of those 40 guys would, for the most part, play offense, defense, AND special teams, Meanwhile, those teams like Whitmer could plug and play guys all day without getting tired.
And they didn't mind destroying you either. We were down 48-0 to Fostoria. They had just scored. They decided to go for 2 to make it an even 50. C0cksuckers.
The year after I graduated, they dropped to Division II aligning with schools much closer in size. They have done much better since that change.
Go Wildcats!
Napoleon eh?
edit: oops, forgot about Sylvania Northview being Wildcats as well
Damon Moore played for OSU. Also, Fostoria had two bruisers at running back that year as well (Jason Doogs was one of them I believe)
Not unlike some of the teams we played. Sandusky had Pace, Findlay had Rothlisberger, Fremont Ross had Woodson, Fostoria had Moore, Central Catholic had JoJuan Armor, St. Ignatius had Eric Haddad, Drew Haddad, Chris Hovan, Matt Bunsey, John Favret, Chris Della Vella, Dan O'Leary and Scott Mutryn, Canton McKinley had Josh McDaniels and Adrian Brown.
There are probably a few more I am missing but there was a ton of talent around here back then...
Ah, the Great Lakes League. Go Kicking Mules!. Though mostly it was we Mules who got kicked.
No - we were bad at football. Private school on the East Coast with much more concentration on Soccer and Lacrosse than foosball.
Same, though my high school just had a couple of seasons where we only lost one game, and are now moving to the public school leauge. But before that we went like 2-7 quite often.
So you don't know what high school you went to?
Or you didn't even attend high school?
The first question was "where did you go to high school."
I love HS football. I love that living up North I can catch the games on the radio at night. Its fun to sit around a fire in the back yard and listen on an autumn night. The kids are really playing for emotion.
great day to wear the blue and white
I graduated in '91 (With Jason Carr). 'retired' from football my Jr. year when I realized there wasn't much room for a 165 lb tackle. ;-)
CC was always 'good' watching them when my Bro went there. They always made a decent run for the playoffs but didn't always make it. Made their bones on being good in the Catholic League. They did have one State title in '79.
But its funny, I remember thinking, and being told, how it was hard to compete with some of the huge public schools. I also remember watching those schools (like Harrison) facilities and thinking 'Wow! What great stuff!'
Then, in '90-'91, we won our first of a bucket load of State titles. Then they went through a down period, then they were back, and last year they were terrible. Who knows what the future holds.
My nephew just graduated from there and got turned off by the football teams repeated 'failures' because they kept losing to Cass Tech in the State Finals LOL. I tried to tell him about the old days but he didn't get it.
Absolutely loved the school though. Didn't finish out with football, but with Wrestling.
And I started at QB for us. Double bad.
We were historically good (two state titles), but while I was there we were not good at all.
I graduated a year after Drew Henson. Yeah we were good.
Damn you Toledo Whitmer...Damn You! /s
I went to Clarkston. We were good at basketball when I was there (woo hoo Final Four 2009!) but sucked at football. After I graduated, future classes got really good at football, and we are the reigning back-to-back D1 State Champions. Our QB was awesome. As was our running game. Our basketball team remains very good but never great. Go Wolves!
Wait so you are from Michigan, and still choose to be an OSU fan, albeit one that I can respect via their blog posts?
....does.not.compute....
I'm actually from Pittsburgh. Moved with my mom to Ohio until 1999, Michigan from 1999-2012, and now Philly. My dad has been in Sandusky since 2004, but now he's in Grand Rapids too. I'm all over.
"My dad has been in Sandusky since 2004" I think there is a joke there, but I'll just assume you mean he works in Ohio @ Cedar Point and leave it alone.
Lake Orion?
My son's HS (Saline) lost to your squad in the second of those 2 championships.
Your QB and running game were, indeed, quite awesome.
Racine Park.
Pretty good at football. Won the state title in 1988 (Brent Moss) and 2005 (John Clay).
The John Clay Junior year State Championship highlight reel is still one of the most impressive films I have witnessed.
Keeping it in Wisconsin, my HS Regis is pretty good in the small schools division.
We went 4-6 my senior year. It was our best year in like a decade.
So no...no we weren't.
I went to Berkmar HS in Lilburn, GA and our football team was awful but still managed to upset Parkview (main rival and, at the time, state powerhouse) twice while I was there. Otherwise Berkmar was the doormat of the division.
My HS was awful.
They've made the playoffs twice in their entire history.
My High School has never won a conference championship...ever...never made the playoffs...
the site of your link has scores from 1950 for Jackson High...win pct since then is only .331
The only thing you can count on is losing.
Jackson High made the playoffs in 1999, 2000, 2003, 2006, and 2009. They even won a playoff game in 1999.
The worst of the worst that have been around since prior to 1990...
Flint Southwestern Academy
50-193 (.206), never made playoffs, never had a winning season
http://michigan-football.com/f/flintswa.htm
Brethren
114-322-3 (.263), made playoffs 2x
http://michigan-football.com/f/brethren.htm
New Boston Huron
150-394-8 (.279), made playoffs 2x, 7 winning season in 53 years
http://michigan-football.com/f/nbhuron.htm
Mayville
154-390-12 (.288), made playoffs once
http://michigan-football.com/f/mayville.htm
Detroit Western Intl.
151-368-11 (.295), never made playoffs
http://michigan-football.com/f/detwestn.htm
I went to Mayville. We've been pretty terrible at football ever since time began. Only 2 winning seasons since '87 and around 10 total since 1950.
ok, I stand corrected...they made the playoffs, still there best record since 1950 was 7-3. Never have had a conference championship.
uhh I don't know. I don't know, you'll ahhhhhh have to ask my wife, Sarah. I don't know.
Summerville High school, Summerville, SC
Head Coach John McKissick By The Numbers
621
Wins as Summerville High School head coach
88
Years old
10
State championships
63
Seasons as Green Wave head coach
1926
Born in Kingstree
1951
Graduated from Presbyterian College with Economics Degree
1952
First year as Summerville head coach
12
U.S
presidents during McKissick’s career
amazing! I was so impressed by what you posted about his coaching career that I decided to google John McKissick. Sorry to say, he just announced 2 weeks ago, on June 16th, that he was stepping down:
621 career football wins---likely a record NEVER to be broken. But the tributes written about McKissick are even more impressive. I hope he has a long and enjoyable retirement ahead of him!