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• And also they would have 600 more students to choose from. And with open enrollment and private school that is equal footing. Teams play in the division based on enrollment. So to say if they played in this or that division is irrelevant. So in division 6 if people named the top 3-4 teams consistently they would be mentioned every time.

  JC

• Powerhouse lol. One advantage they play up cause of their league but play D5 D6 in playoffs. If they played D3 That word wouldnt be mentioned. And they would have to see teams like Milan which they lost to two years in a row and counting...

• yeah chris you promised an all decade team during the summer.....us old timers want some recognition!!!

• Congrats to Coach Giarmo and his players and coaches for a great season.

• Lots of good observations on football around here. SMCC not the greatest academically, very limited facilities, but they must focus strongly on something to keep students coming there.(volleyball, football). Without that they would crumble quickly.
  They dont offer scholarships, but 75% or more of the students do not pay full tuition. Lastly, which is a most definite, could that start there in the 9th grade intending to go to college, would do so at any other school also.
  Public school has to deal with the poor, realistic side of life, that not everyone will be able to go to college.

  As far as good football around here, a few earlier comments hit the nail on the head. There are too many schools in one area around here. Milan is working on it in there area, but too far for MOnroe folk. Everyone out there way is heading to MIlan because of all they have to offer out there. This will continue for many years. What can we do in Monroe to compete with that??
  SMCC cant be the school to harness in all the talent because it cost money to go there and they do not have good facilities.
  Any suggestions, I would like to see it happen, instead of all of us fighting each other.

• If you had all the talent he has every year you'd be a good coach too!! He' has built a nice program, but there is no excuse that they haven't won a D6 championship!! They haven't won the league in a while either!

• A couple of thoughts on those programs you listed. Harrison was the king of bringing in kids from outside the district, E. Grand Rapids did the same thing, Rockford is the biggest school in the state. Lowell and Muskegon are legit but the Big Reds get all the best players in Muskegon too.

  I'll give you a hint on how Cass does it. They recruit the entire Police Athletic League. They get every kid they want. Their second teamers would finish second in the PSL. They are at every game and practice around the city. They also have the best QB out of the city in a generation in Jayru Campbell.

• If they recruit, they need to fire their recruiting director. They haven't had a Division I recruit in all of Giarmo's tenure. Sorry about the loss to DCC, Bedford had a great year.

  If you call an open house an "unfair advantage", how fair is it that the Catholic schools with the public/government schools/funds to get students? Seems to me that open houses are a necessity to show the potential students what their school has to offer them, INCLUDING their extracurricular activities.

  With school of choice in place now, public schools can no longer argue. It would be anti-American to not condone the choice of which high school you wish to attend. Competition drives success.

  Chris, I am waiting on your all decade teams that we were promised (OK, I may be imagining that part)!

• Zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz. Snoozefest. Sorry! My all league picks are coming. Just finishing up my due diligence.

• And I beg to differ. Financial aid, scholorship, etc. is there a difference?
  I know parents that make a very good living and their 2 kids attend SMCC for the sports and they receive financial aid.
  The playing field is not equal with the Private or Cathlic schools with the public schools.
  Very few attend for the "Education" Actually you get less opportunity at SMCC than many larger schools for class offerings, etc. Low paid teachers, etc. PEOPLE SEND THEIR KIDS THERE TO WIN CHAMPIONSHIPS, and they market that at their open houses, give aways, free gifts and keys to gift boxes. etc.
  If you market that way in the public sector, MHSAA would be all over it and ready to shut you down.
  Do you honestly believe the coaches are that much better at DCC, Brother Rice, SMCC, De Lasalle etc.?
  Yet they win the majority of their championships and have had numerous outings at Ford Field for state championships. I am not a Bedford fan, but it pisses me off that they have a 1 time chance in 50 yearsto go to the finals with a loaded team of seniors (38) and starters (22) and can not get past DCC, I feel the same wasy about all of them, SMCC, BR, DLS,
  People know what goes on and that is does go on. Bedford cannot market or recruit for athletes, SMCC and the rest can and do. Check out the front of their handouts, or their recruiting /marketing video that gets shown to all the cathlic school children in the area.
  Heres the key, now pick your prize.

  • Well if you really want to have the discussion, I'll tell you why things are the war they are for other schools in the area as it pertains to winning titles.

    If you look around the state at the powerhouse football programs that are not private schools you'll find a few things in common. For example, schools like FHH, Lowell, Muskegon, Rockford, Canton, Stevensville Lakeshore, EGR and Ithaca are all public schools that have playoff runs pretty much every year. You can add Cass Tech to that list now also. What these schools do is get good coaching staffs in place, have football tech classes at the high schools and lastly welcome with open arms student athletes who only go to those schools to be a part of the football programs.

    Monroe county as a whole os for some reason very individual community segregated. What I have always hoped to see would be a time that monroe county would have a football school, which based on geographics alone would probably have to be monroe high. You get the football players in neighboring school districts (monroe, bedford, CC, Jefferson and maybe even Milan) to represent monroe county as a whole, they would be competing for state titles every year.

    I know nobody wants to heae that, because for some reason we all hate eachother down here. But that is the way it works throughout the rest of the state, good Catholic and Public programs alike.