OT: Was your HS good at football?

Is there where all the meatheads come out of the woodwork?  Well, back in '94 I would've had a full-ride to Michigan but blew out my knee...

I went to Belleville High School where the football team made the playoffs every year I was there.  I saw most of these games as a part of the marching band, which was also one of the best in the state.  It made for some exciting football seasons!  

A few kids made it to the NFL, including Michigan man Ian Gold as well as Kris and Cullen Jenkins.

From the little I've kept up with it, they have been really bad the past decade.  However, they just hired a coach from Cass Techs staff in Jermaine Crowell so hopefully he'll get them back to being competitive!

Went to Lake Orion High and we are usually good at football. Together with Clarkston we dominate the Oakland County conference. 2010 division 1 state champs. That year was an amazing ride especially the semifinal against Cass Tech.

Coach woulda put me in in the 4th quarter we woulda been state champions. No doubt. No doubt in my mind.

and hoisted around that very Brown Jug after we beat you guys in 2001 (junior year) and 2002 (senior year in the worst conditions I ever played in).

We never won states or anything but we did beat Saginaw High 7-6 in the 2002 playoffs as a HUGE underdog when Woodley and Jackson were seniors.  That was our first playoff win in like 10 years at the time.  As you could imagine Woodley was an absolute BEAST in that game.

When I was there? No.

Now, yes.

8 state championships in the largest class in Indiana.

Millard North HS in Omaha, the alma mater of Eric Crouch. We went to the Nebraska state championship game all four years I was there, winning it twice. 

nope

Alpena High School. Perpetually garbage at football and most other sports.

I went to a school where basketball was king.  We were typically a 3-6 team every year.  However; my junior year we went 7-2 and had the best season in school history, but missed the playoffs by 0.5 points.  This was before the expanded playoff format.  Now you can go 6-3 or in some cases even 5-4 and get into the post season.

Yes ... the place where Braylon Edwards went - but we didn't cross paths since I graduated in 1970.

Back then, our FB teams were horrible (1-6-1 my senior year), but we were in the top division in the state at the time, playing the likes of Dearborn Divine Child (Gary Danielson) and Royal Oak Shrine (Bill Simpson: all state/all-American at MSU and all-pro LA Rams).

My "claim to fame" ... I was playing safety and it was mano y mano against Simpson and he juked me so bad on a TD run that I think I was wering HIS jock strap.

Was born & raised on the East Side of Detroit ... Harper Woods was walkable.  The HS is no more, however ...

Won 2 state titles (07, and i think 13, lost one in 10 or 11). Always seemed to go pretty far in the playoffs, usually an 8-1, 9-0 regular season. Naturally, my senior year, we were one of two classes to miss the playoffs since 1985. Dunno why, but i still feel a little shitty about it almost 20 yrs later.

Portland St Pats.  I played varsity for 4 years and not because I was good.  I was  a body.  No JV squad and we won our first game my freshman year and then preceeded to lose every game until the first game my senior year where we finished with 5 wins.

Worst loss was 60-0 vs Fowler.  We had the privelidge to play with the first girl football player in Michigan and she was terrible.  I took channel 10 over an hour to film her catching one ball.  She played because she protested the killing of the XC program because there were not enough runners.  

Big surprise she is a lib attny and went to state.  

Since then the program turned around for a spell but now has to play 8 man football where they do OK.  

I graduated with 34 kids and we played school that had 2x or more our enrollment.  

Good Times!

I went to a small high school on the western side of the state. The class ahead of mine graduated 144 senors and was the largest class in school history and for at least another decade. My graduating class was 114. The head coaching job was a part time job for a teacher and typically changed every three to five years. We usually won our conference every third year. After the season ended we had an out of conference grudge match against the next town over who was one division below us so didn't count. In a weird way it was a bit like Michigan vs OSU. We could go undefeated in conference and win the conference champoinship, but if we lost that last game most of the "adults" in town considered it a losing season. Actually happened my senior year. In retrospect I suppose it had to do with town bragging rights between the adults. 

As far as I know my high school never sent a football player on scholarship to a div-1 college program so the quality of competition was far from top tier, but within our conference we were pretty good. 

I went and checked on their recent record before commenting and found that they won five conference championships between 2000 - 2010 but none since. So they must have fallen on tough times. 

Yes. I went to Dearborn Fordson from 2007-2011 and we had some very good teams during those years and historically have always been at least a playoff team. Still waiting on another state title though, haven't had one of those since 1993.

I had a good run with Arlen and the Longhorns to state before getting injured

Played O-Line and D-line for a small town High school in Northern Nevada that played all the Reno schools, so we had an awesome home field advantage as they had to travel six hours by bus to play us. Overall decent, made the state playoffs most years and won most games by a score of around 42-14, but always came up short against the main high school in Reno.

Very meh, not bad, not great. Probablly good enough to make the state playoffs every other year. No state championships. Our most noteworthy player produced was Dave Brandon.

South Lyon East on the other hand, the players parents think they are Alabama, and are leading a campaign to get other sports at the school to be eliminated in order to put more money into the football program in order to get more of their kids scholarship attention. I kid you not, the team won two games last year.

Our team stunk when I was there, but I didn't play football, just basketball where we were always solid. Won state in the 70s though

At times, yes. I went to Morenci and we have had varied success over the years. Back to back state finals losses in the 90's. Strong run to I believe the state semis this year.

I went to a prep school (Phillips Academy) on the east coast, and I really couldn't tell you if our team was any good, or if they played better competition and lost most of the time.  Anyways, we lost to our arch-rival all three years I was there (soph through senior).  Our girls sports were killer - the soccer team lost about twice in three years, field hockey was good, ice hockey, lacrosse, etc.  The softball and basketball teams were OK.  For the boys, we had amazing track and x-country, and the soccer, hockey and lax teams were pretty good.  I played water polo, and we kind of sucked (our first varsity season was my senior year, but our swim team kicked ass (2nd in New England).  I also rowed (after giving up lax soph year), and we were all right.  My boat got crushed in our last regatta though, which really sucked.

We had post-grads at our school, and a lot played football.  One guy went to UCLA of all places to play football.  A bunch of guys ended up at DIII schools.  One PG is now the commander of headquarters/HQ batt of the 2nd Marine Division - a true badass, even in high school.

Ithaca High School (MI).  State Champs (Div VI?) 2010-2013. Won 69 or 70 straight until the championship last year. QB Alex Smith committed to Toledo, attended Wake Forest and transferred to EMU. 2010 QB Alex Niznak went to CMU, got some reps against UM in 2013 and transferred to school in Missouri.

Our program has been historically good for its level, but really took off when the playoff format was expanded. My era was dominated by underachieving teams that couldn't make the tournament in the old system.  

Until recently, a football powerhouse, despite having just 250 boys in the high school, and now coed with 600 students.

Since 1968, 7 state championships and 6 runners up.

We have produced the all time leading rusher at Army (Mike Mayweather) and recently, Michael Scherer, who is Mizzou's starting inside linebacker, and Jack Kurzu, OL at Oklahoma State. Many guys went to play at lesser D1 schools like Northwestern, Duke, and Vandy. (Joe Buck and Vincent Price are also alums, for better or worse.) Our rival schools produced Ezekiel Elliott and Jehu Chesson. Marv Levy coached there for 2 years.

A prep school in VA, we won 3 straight state titles, but private school caveats apply.  A lot of our guys got D1 offers, our starting tb/lb got offered by UVA, Tennessee, and Stanford, chose Harvard.  Vinny Testaverde went there, Eddie George, (both well before my time) and Chris Perry was a year under me. We also had a qb that I think ended up at Michigan as a back up, Shawn Cassidy I think.  Also Carlos Hyde...last count had 17 players on NFL rosters, and Penn State QB Christian Hackenberg.

 

FUMA '98

Went to Waterford Our Lady of the Lakes.  The football team wasn't very good while I was in HS, but historically it's been pretty good.  Won a state title in 2002.  The best sports programs there, though, have been women's basketball and softball.

Yes.  East Grand Rapids.