In reply to Love both Devin and Drew by stephenrjking. Graham didn't learn this until he was informed he can't play any other sports for the duration of his high school career. EARVIN "Magic" Johnson, G, LANSING EVERETT (1974-1977): On the Mount Rushmore of all-time NBA players, Magic is the gold standard in the state of Michigan. Will 2024 be a record year for football players drafted? But I don't think he was really all-anything. In a normal year he'd be among the best in-state prospects but 2008 was a huge year for the state, with Nick Perry (USC), Dann O'Neill, Jonas Gray (ND), Mark Ingram (Bama), Cissoko, and Fred Smith (MSU) all joining Martin as four-stars. The 2021 Detroit Free Press All-State teams, from Divisions 1 to 8, as selected by special writer Mick McCabe: . Sun and clouds mixed. Refresh the page or check it out on Twitter. Head coach: Clarence Turner. If I was going for accuracy I would have said "barely concealed garbage heap.". https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I2HW7_rgrr4&t=177s. We are focused on providing professional development opportunities and award programs for coaches and recognizing outstanding football and academic performances by football players. I hate to bag on him but were arguing UM history. In reply to I guarantee nobody from by Seth. DIVISION ONE No local players selected. I've got to go back to shorter writeups. He was good enough at that to leave early for the NFL, where he had 840 yards and 8 TDs last season. So we're still at Cass, except back up to a time when people were still saying Wilcher can get good players but can't win a championship. Sports Gambling Podcast. Since we've covered a lot of these guys' Michigan careers already, I figured this could instead be a celebration of the programs they came from, and Michigan high school football in general. All rights reserved. The natural follow-up question, if you know a thing or two about the houses in that part of Rockford, would be "Which wing of it?". We're still in Ottawa County. In reply to Lawrence Reid the 2000s by Seth. The newspaper has named a team every year since 1982. Backup: Drew Henson, BrightonThe rest of the field: Shane Morris, Steven Threet, Nick Sheridan, Alex Malzone, Craig Randall, [After THE JUMP: The greatest player in Michigan high school history]. Watch: Chippewa Valley vs. Clarkston Division 1 title game highlights. Gordon on the other hand solved the longest positional black hole in Michigan memory when he moved from 3-3-5 Spur to free safety for the 2011 season. Thirty-six local football standouts were recently honored with first team all-state selections from the Michigan High School Football Coaches Association upon the conclusion of the 2022 season. His size and athleticism would come to serve him well at tight end. I was there. In reply to I'd also takeDPJ over by HarbaughsLeftElbow. We also would have made it through an entire 22 positions of great players from great Michigan schools without highlighting a Crusader, which would have been a shame. USA Today named its first All-USA high school football team in 1982. Edge to Henson. Finally we're covering my parents' alma mater, and Michigan's famous pipeline, Cass Technical High School, the great magnet high school of Detroit. Finally retired from a long NFL career, Harris hosted a camp at Houseman Field last weekend. That career was supposed to go through power school Martin Luther King (where he was teammates with Ernest Shazor and Larry Harrison) but in three years there Braylon, who was 5'8", preppy, loved Greek mythology, and tutored kids in geometry, did not fit in. The 5-foot-11, 175-pound tailback was a workhorse in the. Foote, who has 313 in his twitter handle, named one of his kids Trammell, and once paid for the funeral of a random Detroit child who fell through the ice, is currently linebackers coach for Arizona, but plans eventually on coming back home to open a youth and job training center. Free shipping . PREVIOUS DIVISON ; VIEW DIVISION III RESULTS; SHARE YOUR TEAM'S . The school produced 1920s All-American Harry Hawkins, gave the Mad Magicians their best receiver in Dick Rifenburg, and more recently sent national prospect Shonte Peoples to Ann Arbor. David Brandt is from Jenison (not Genison, Bentley databasers), a GR suburb where Grand River meets 196 on the Southwest edge of the metro area. Drew was a far better QB. $24.99 . CT and King faced each other in two instant classics that season, with Hill and MLK barely defeating Cass in both despite playing the second game without five players (including Ambry Thomas) because of a brawl a week earlier. It's hard to think of a better top two at LT from any other school in the 1990 to today time period. When he arrived a sophomore, BG was already one of the best young players of his class. Traverse City St. Francis, Gladwin and Farwell each had four players selected. My only real disagreement/change would be Drew Henson over Devin Gardner. DIVISION TWO No local. In reply to As an out-of-stater I humbly by dragonchild, In reply to Good idea. Winds SSE at 10 to 15 mph.. Clawson is an Oakland County Detroit suburb and those who live there aren't really sure if they live there or Royal Oak or maybe Troy, or Madison Heights, but certainly not Birmingham because you'd know as soon as you saw your tax bill if it was Birmingham. Wilcher is also the AD and track coach at Cass. Linemen: Hunter Mejeur, Climax-Scotts; Jarod Checkley, Decatur; Alfredo Calderon, Centreville; Nathan Patricka, Ubly; Ben Kreger, Sandusky; John Martin, Athens; Daniel Smith, Carson City Crystal; Bryant Schram, West Iron County; Damon Black, Reading; Elijah Strine, Reading; Jacob Eskilsen, Hemlock; Isaac Krisick, Hudson; Bryce Iott, Monroe St. Mary CC; Garrett Birchmeier, New Lothrop; Brian Goetz, Blissfield; Spencer Hathaway, St. Francis; Drew Peterson, Glen Lake; Josh Warlick, Clintondale; Bradyn Henderson, Millington; Devon Brock, Ecorse; Derrick Harmon; Robert Eggers, Saginaw Valley Lutheran; Jordan Verburg, Parchment; Cody Hanson, Benzie Central; Garrett Jones, Berrien Springs; Jermaine Trammell, Denby; Dillon Arthur, Portland; Troy Kunnen, Unity Christian; Christian Creten, Gladstone; Brian Bishop, Cheboygan; Ben Kroll, Glen Lake; Collin Blalock, Schoolcraft; Blake Townsend, Meridian; Brock Kuhn, Michigan Center; Ryan Downs, St. Louis; Chris Beck, Milan; Logan Miller, Allendale; Marshawn Kneeland, Godwin Heights; Jack Gilchrest, Mason; Noah Anderson, Mason; Beau Zorza, Marquette; Jacob Redinger, DeWitt; Cody Remick, Royal Oak; Eli Cate, U-D Jesuit; Justin Schlaack, Swartz Creek; Maurice Powell, Port Huron Northern; John Martin, Pewamo-Westphalia; Mike McGinnity, De La Salle; Danny Motowski, De La Salle; Jayson Tunstall, New Lothrop; Cameron White, Midland; Evan Orme, Riverview Richard; Damond Duncal, St. Clair Shores Lakeview; Davon Sears, Center Line; Tylin Ayers, Stockbridge; Brian French, Clare, William Rackley, Flushing; Devond Dobbins, Kalamazoo Central; Kyle Arnoldi, Walled Lake Northern. But then the quarterback got injured in a motorcycle incident, and as the most athletic kid on the team Braylon had to replace him. 1985-86 Camden High School.Location: Camden, New Jersey. While scouts marveled at the physical gifts of Rogers and reporters wondered whether it was right to let the world know Rogers's grades weren't going to be enough to pass NCAA muster, reports started trickling in of the little underclassman linebacker and running back who was doing as much as Rogers, future NBA point guard Anthony Roberson, and Michigan-bound OLB Roy Manning to lead Saginaw to the Division II state championship. After a long NFL career, Riemersma returned to Zeeland to coach the Zeeland East football team in 2005 when the school district split his alma mater into an East and West. Devin had great courage and some great games but Drew Henson would have been a deserving Heisman trophy candidate in the 2001 season had he returned. In reply to Can I selfishly* suggest by Steve Sprague. This is awesome. Love both Devin and Drew. Step 2: Selection of 4 all region teams in each division. He has been a much more successful football coach than he ever was as a back, accumulating a 173-65 record overall, an insane 51-27 record in the highly competitive Detroit Public School League ("The PSL"),three State Championships, and sending more blue chips to FBS programs than any other school in the state. While Cass is the magnet, King is the high school for downtown and midtown Detroit. Why chosen: The senior had a team-high 39 tackles for loss, along with 116 tackles, 12 sacks and five forced fumbles in 15 games. Thank You Bob Ufer! By 2002 a much larger Woodley was the top inside linebacker recruit in the country, and starting running back Jerome Jackson got a fourth star, and with Saban now in the SEC, the until-then natural landing spot for Saginaw recruits, Michigan State, no longer seemed like much of a destination. Marcus Houston was the top running back in the country in 2000 and picked the Colorado Buffaloes over Florida State, UCLA and Michigan. We end back at King, appropriately enough, with a guy who embodies all the excitement, attitude, and disappointments that have come out of there. Michigan High School Football State Champions listed since 1894 Written by Jeff Corrion Published 11/22/2017 This following list consists of mythical champions and champions who were determined by playoff games and a final game. I'm cheating with the linebackers to get the best three on the field. Michigan offered Shazor, an early five-star and the Wolverines' first commit of the 2001 class, without looking twice at Stan's son. If the worst player in the history Cass Tech football (according to his coach, multiple times) was 1963-'66 lineman Rob (father of Seth) Fisher, the greatest is Jourdan Lewis. Ben Gedeon on the other hand was very good, but he still was nowhere near Irons, Gold, Foote, or Harris. One of Michigan's lowest-rated recruits (he was on the two-/three-star borderline), Harris is still used as the exempli gratia for underrated Western Michigan players. The newspaper also selects a USA Today High School Football Coach of the Year. We still haven't replicated it, not even once. It rated the likes of des morgan and joe bolden at or above just about every lber not named Harris including Foote, Jones , Gold. MICK McCABE:Warren De La Salle's Triston Nichols, somehow, helps win state title with a torn ACL? 8-Player Finals - Superior Dome, Marquette - Nov. 18 . PLAYER OF THE YEAR Nick Kopin, Hudson, Sr. $225.00 . Welcome to the 2022 Michigan high school football state championships. Like a lot of people at Jenison, Brandt's first interest was hunting, and even today his former Michigan teammates say don't bother trying to get him to watch Michigan football on a Saturday after deer season begins. DG had heart sure but he wasnt very good at playing qb. He was the first athlete from Michigan to participate in the U.S Army All-American Bowl. In reply to Gardner over Henson is by Romeowolv. But Brandt was more modern Jenison than Grasmanis-like in personality. Interested in becoming a sponsor of Illinois High School Football Coaches Association? Harris had 158 tackles as a junior, but really broke out as a senior at linebacker and fullback, leading the Bengals to the playoffs in a season that included a 26-14 victory over East Kentwood and a 20-2 win over mighty Muskegon. 1985 High School Basketball Awards - RealGM 1985 High School Awards Awards By Type International Format 1985 Parade Player of the Year Sort: Player (A-Z) Col umns: Swipe 1985 Parade All-American First Team Sort: Player (A-Z) Col umns: Swipe 1985 Parade All-American Second Team Sort: Player (A-Z) Col umns: Swipe 1985 Parade All-American Third Team And they've kept Pershing going, though enrollment has flagged to under 400 and they absorbed some of Kettering to to do so. More: Nominate a student-athlete for the 2019 I AM SPORT award! In reply to As great as Wheatley was as by blanx. The much-beloved coach was just 57. 8. Football (college). Right off the bat this is a tough one, and a decision I'm personally going to get flak for because the other good candidate reads this blog. Ben Braden and 1970s center Will Hart came from there, and so did my houseguests this weekend. Cass Cass Cass, and I'll warn you now the next guy also went to Cass. Even with last year's Mr. Football, Donovan Edwards, on the field for the Lakers, Tatum was still a big-play threat, racking up more than 650 yards from scrimmage (500-plus rushing, 150 receiving) and four scores, earning second-team all-state honors in Division 1-2 from the Associated Press. We would focus in part on the . As an out-of-stater I humbly request a mitten map of where all these schools are. If you can believe me I knew that and screwed up the joke I was setting up about how it's not in Ottawa County nor even in Ottawa Hills. This article was great.except for the reference to the Vietnamese place in Clawson. The football field, named for an important community member who kept the city's education system afloat as rest belt economics took hold, sits on the site of the old train station and overlooks the tracks. As much as I love my hometown, calling Mt. Led by junior running back and future NFL star Maurice Jones-Drew, the 5-7 bulldozer racked up 1,043 yards and 22 touchdowns on just 75 touches during the 2001 season (13.9 YPC). Weston Dressler set the state record with a 10.44-second time in the 100-meter dash but is also one of the greatest high school football players in state history. Lloyd took Charles Stewart and that was remarkable at the time. Tickets on sale for the 2019 Detroit Free Press Sports Awards, Your California Privacy Rights/Privacy Policy. 3A. He was a local legend, a three-time all-state lineman and son of a former Notre Dame tight end whom the local paper profiled while dragging his father's pickup truck up a hill. He could have been more circumspect but nobody doubted his heart was in the right place. For those with time on their hands today, Mike Martin's 2007 Highlight Tape remains to this day one of the more impressive interior DL film's I've ever seen. Mark Bolach from Muskegon Catholic Central, class of 1992, never had a bad snap in 4 years as the starting long snapper. Second, while the final selection of Gardner is with merit, to me there is no debate. Shit Chris Graham was significantly better than those guys. Appropriate documentation shall include, but is not limited to, the following: copies of scorebooks or game/season statistical summaries, copies of yearbooks, and copies of newspaper clippings. West Michigan produces some great talent! 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