Feel The Strength

June 30th, 2015 at 9:45 AM ^

As in Scott Dreisbach to Mercury Hayes to win the Pigskin Classic against Virginia? I remember I was at Benjamin Moore Paints (the one near William & Main St.) with my mom and a couple siblings listening to the end of the game on the radio while making some sort of paint run. I couldn't wait to get home to see the replay.

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ZooWolverine

June 30th, 2015 at 3:18 PM ^

That was my first game at the Big House. That game was so amazing, I can still picture seeing the ball disappear behind a crowd of people, and I knew that Michigan had lost--that the fade had been thrown too far--and then the place went more nuts than any place I could have imagined, and I knew I was wrong. I wasn't a Michigan fan yet going into the game, just tagging along with my best friend and his dad, but that put me well on the road to becoming one.

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Pickle Rick

June 30th, 2015 at 8:02 AM ^

Howdy neighbor! I'm always happy to see a fellow Kalamazooian on the blog. Anyway, I'm always amazed at all the talent that comes out of Loy Norrix and K Central, but their teams manage to be so terrible.

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Pickle Rick

June 30th, 2015 at 8:48 AM ^

Anything south of Kilgore is Portage, right? The lines between both cities is always blurred to me.

It all comes down to discipline. Central and Norrix could compete -talent wise- with your Rockfords, Muskegons, and EGRs of the state. They just need to get a coaching staff to instill a solid foundation of fundamentals (blocking and tackling, mainly).

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Qmatic

June 30th, 2015 at 9:36 AM ^

I agree. Kalamazoo has probably just as much of a talent base as any area on the Westside. Couple that with the fact that there are only 2 high schools in the city and there is not a large catholic school pulling away some of the best players (Hackett is a great school, but no where near big enough to grab the best players)



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Pickle Rick

June 30th, 2015 at 5:16 PM ^

Very good points. I've never really thought much of Hackett or Christian as very good football schools, either. Outside of the smaller divisions (Mendon, Constantine, Schoolcraft), SW Michigan has no presence in high school football deep in the playoffs.

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Blumanji

June 30th, 2015 at 1:25 PM ^

I used to live a mile away from Loy Norrix before I moved to South Portage. Duckett is really the only reason, other than the hideous faded blue color of the school, that I despise Norrix. We had a lot of fun beating their asses in Tennis when I was in high school. PC tennis!!

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Walter Sobchak

June 30th, 2015 at 1:20 PM ^

Seriously, the irony in that statement is so thick. What an arrogant tool. Then again, if I had as much prolapsing rectal tissue as Dantonio does, I'd be in a foul mood as well.

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MGJS SuperKick Party

June 30th, 2015 at 9:33 AM ^

How though? It makes the big ten look bad if they lose by 100. When a preseason top 10 team loses like that, then we have to listen to the whole "B1G Sucks! LOLSECWINS" from the talking heads. And as much as I hate MSU, and OSU, I want michigan to beat them and have them be strong as possible the rest of the time so we can shake that stigma.

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