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• Agreed. Good luck to all region teams this year. I agree the HL is down, maybe as low as it has been in a while and also agree Redmond will tuen Monroe into the gem it should be.
  SMCC excepted. They will continue to reload, plus I see some names on their roster this year that played on other schools last year.
  Most of the HR schools have a feeder from 1 junior high. SMCC has a feeder from about 10 cathlic schools. Go to their CYO night and count how many.

• 50 players is a HUGE number for a D1 program, 100 is not possible. I would say last year only about 10(if that) programs in the state had over 50 players last year on varsity.... SMCC being one of them.

  -bn

• Monroe Population according to Michigan-football.com

  2007=2271
  2008=2043
  2009=2175
  2010=2062
  2011=2196

  I wouldn't say their population is going down. I would say it varies from year to year. Having and sustaining 100 kids on a team is not very realistic. That is why you don't see even the powerhouses in the state having that all the time. However there are exceptions to that rule once in a while.

  I never said that there wouldn't be kids from those schools that couldn't play at Monroe. Of course that would be the case. I only meant to say Monroe has more athletes. I think we are saying the same thing but different ways. Monroe has more athletes on the field. However, when you look at some of the teams they play now in the SEC that are not nearly "athletic" as any of the Ann Arbor schools.

  Trust me I know the Huron League is tough hard nosed football. I played in it, coached in it, and have watched plenty games. But lately I think the league is going a little soft. With the exception of SMCC and Airport and the verdict will be out on them this year. Of course they will make playoffs but lets see what kind of noise they make once they get in.

  Oh and this year Monroe has 70 freshman, 40 on JV, and 50 on Varsity. Which they should have. Those numbers haven't been that high since the Carducci era.
  Redmond is making his mark!

• I heard monroe has like 40 on freshman and around 60 on JV. So your right in the future monroe could have a hundred kids, than again alot of those kids who dont play will quit.

• OK, but atleast they HAVE facilities!! You have no idea what a luxery it is to be able to WALK over to your football field, baseball field etc... etc... CC has to be bussed everywhere(and it sucks). It is a definite feature that all the other schools have over CC.

  -bn

• I can assure you that there are athletes from Jefferson, Flat Rock, SMCC, Riverview, Huron, Milan, Grosse Ile, Airport, Ida, Whiteford, Summerfield, Dundee, Mason, etc. etc. that could play for and start at Monroe in every sport. Because you go to a larger school does not ensure that you are a superior athlete. It normally allows you to have more kids to choose from is all.
  I am sure many athletes from past and present can be named that could or would have been very welcomed at Monroe High School, and in some cases may have starred more brightly due to larger exposure.
  Lets look at numbers for a minute.
  Monroe has over 2,000 students, and has 50 - 55 boys on the varsity football team.
  Another smaller public school such as Ida or FR has maybe 500 kids and has 25 boys on the varsity football team.
  Based on that percentage, Monroe should have over 100 boys on the varsity football team. The trend over the past 30 yeasr is not to send your kid to Monroe for many reasons.
  Their population contiues to go donw while the smaller schools continue to go up. Why is that? SUperior athlets? I don't think so.

• Ya look at all the huge monsters and college talent out there for cc. Oh wait there aren't any. Next excuse guys.

• not going to argue with you whether he would have started at DB as a junior. But I doubt he would have played over hamilton or quinn. And yes that bigger school does have better athletes and they do have more of them to pick from too. You cant tell me that Flat Rocks best athletes are on the same level as Monroe best!

  I wish the kid the best of luck and good luck to Flat Rock this year!

• nobody in the huron league has beautiful facilities BN, Airport has a nice baseball field, milan has a nice gym. Thats about it.Face it, people transfer to CC because they are a bunch of cheats.

• Close to 70% of the students at that school received some sort of financial help this past year. I don't think they all transfered there to play football. I think I heard that some kid got a full ride to transfer there to compete on the debate team. Damn cheaters !