New Rockford HS Football Coach a former Michigan Football Player
Longtime Rockford coach Ralph Munger announced his retirement in December and it was recently announced that Brent Cummings has been named as the replacement. Cummings played defensive back for Michigan from '99-03 and has been an assistant at Rockford for quite some time.
Interesting hire for Rockford. Most thought that some other West Michigan coaches were in the running or even a shoe in depending on who you asked. I'm hoping to be able to find out a little more of the story later this week (I'm not in that circle but know some who are). Even with a large talent pool at Rockford, he will have a difficult job in replicating Ralph's accomplishments in a TOUGH OK Red conference.
January 22nd, 2020 at 6:46 PM ^
Good luck Brent.
January 22nd, 2020 at 6:53 PM ^
I believe he left the program for a year and then came back, possibly as a walk on. Funny, for some reason his name was the first I thought of when I saw the title
January 22nd, 2020 at 6:56 PM ^
He was golden god at belding. I believe he had a offer from NW to play basketball and football.
January 22nd, 2020 at 6:57 PM ^
Didnt he play for Belding in high school?
January 22nd, 2020 at 6:59 PM ^
Yes, was on that great '97 team for Belding
January 22nd, 2020 at 7:00 PM ^
We played them and got smoked. I graduated in 98'. They had great teams in the 90's
January 22nd, 2020 at 7:15 PM ^
Heck yes they did. I have coached against them several times, all after the 90's glory days, but that town still has a lot pride in those teams.
January 22nd, 2020 at 7:55 PM ^
Yeah we do. I was just a kid when they were good. Once Irv Sigler left it was all downhill from there.
January 22nd, 2020 at 8:12 PM ^
Brent’s first game of high school was a huge game against our JV. Something like 4 carries for 4 TDs. Even though their varsity team ran us off the field my senior year (78-0), they still moved him up the next week. Finest HS player I’ve seen with my own eyes.
January 22nd, 2020 at 10:28 PM ^
Will be interested if Munger's assistants stay around or not....
January 23rd, 2020 at 2:13 PM ^
Ah man, that brings back some memories. We played Rockford in the 2005 state title game and the following year I was a captain in the 2006 semi-final game against them. We had a pretty crazy cinderella year leading up to that 2005 state title game, and it was a pretty close / competitive game (I think we were leading at half if I remember right), but we got destroyed in that 2006 semi-final game the following year. They had a good team, and those were some good times. Playing at Ford Field was pretty surreal as a 17 year old kid.