Offensive Player of the Year

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• Looks like you hit the nail on the head with this call. Trace also made Offense Player of the year for Ann Arbor news. Congrats #9

• Trace Daniel regardless of what some of these immature adults say, you are a great football player and are very deserving of this award. You have made your dad and I so proud of everything you have accomplished, through the naysayers and all the negative people you never gave up. You do not have to prove anything to anyone, the ones who love you will always be standing PROUDLY beside you. Now, on to the next chapter!! I can't wait to see you playing at the next level, and you will do amazing things on the football field in college just like you did in high school. Earned never given. #9mom

• I know he wasn't mentioned as much as the other very deserving players, but Furtney returns next season.

• Lets show some class and be happy for the young men chosen. Your teammate gets the MVP trophy at the team banquet, you don't stand up and complain why didn't you get it. Show some class for the teammate who did get it.

  The blog has chose these young men for us to appreciate their accomplishments and offer congrats, not to complain.

• Not a bad choice, I thought it would have been #6 from Milan.

  OG ISLANDER

  • I know my son better than anyone. It would not have bothered him one bit if someone else won an award. Especially a team mate. With that said, Trace knows the meaning of team, everything he has done, Meech has done, does not happen without the team.
    I have said repeatedly that there are a lot of kids worthy of POY, there really was no wrong or right choice. As far as Nick goes winning the POY, no one can argue he did more on both sides of the ball for his team. The GI kid, there were several kids that could have won it, same goes for Trace. It's all good.

  • Haters are going to hate... Always going to be people try and bring the best down.

  • OG-That sounds familiar.....

• Barnes was deserving as well as Lindeman. Could have went with co-POY. It was a very tough choice. Both great players.

• In 2 years the following has been

  Barnes
  3,011 RUSHING yards
  1,895 passing yards (19 TDs)
  55 TDs

  Linderman
  3,092 rushing yards
  70 passing yards
  568 receiving yards (7 TDs)
  49 TDs

  Even if you take the 568 yards Trace caught and 7 TDs, Barnes would still have 1,327 yards and 12 TDs which comes to a total of

  Barnes - 4,338 yards 48 TDs.
  Linderman - 3,162 yards 42 TDs.

  NUMBERS DONT LIE!

  • Trace is not a QB!!! We are talking rushing yards!!!!! Not passing yards

  • So what your saying is 9 catches 1/3 of his passes?
    I know Both these boys very well, and yes both are deserving. Like I said before, we know what both 6 and 9 ment to Milan. There will not be 2 players again for Milan that did what they did for the team. And that even goes back to middle school.

• You make valid points and I clearly thought about co-players of the year. Clearly nothing political.

  • Attempts???? Yeah you left that part out...

  • It makes perfect sense. Anybody who doesn't see the impact are blind. Cause if you going off stats and impact it's kind of a no brainer. With #6 as QB they are 18-5 and 12-2 in there conference. Bringing to from 4-5 record to a 9-3 record in a season span.. So the difference couldn't have been #9, he been doing his part said nice freshman year.. The difference to get over the hump was #6 controlling the offense. In his 2 years starting varsity QB they both have:

    Rushing:
    Demetrius 3,011 for 35 TDs
    Trace 3,092 for 49 TDs

    But the thing is Demetrius has 1,895 passing yards for 19 TDs... Which puts him at a total of 4,906 yards and 54 TDs

    (Source: MAXPREP.COM)

• Demetrius Barnes #6 of the Big Reds should have clearly won it this year. It's been a lot of games on the line where he pulled them through passing and also rushing. Not taking anything from #9 but numbers don't lie.

  1,549 rushing (1,667 w/ special teams for 19 TDs
  1,022 passing for 11 TDs
  Which comes to 2,689 All Purpose Yards 30 TDs

  Granted the 4 years of varsity might of helped him earn it and that's remarkable BUT it's a yearly award and not a career award. Last year #6 was honorable mention and stats was better than 90% of the QBs listed. This year he's snubbed again due to what??? Politics?? Clearly this award doesn't go off stats and impact on the game but by votes..

  At minimum it could of been Co-POY.

  • That's why it's tough to decide. You only have 2 guys choosing. A panel of voters could have got Barnes the POY,or someone else.
    Honestly, us Milan folk know what #6 ment to us, and we also know we could not have the success without 6 or 9. They are very special.

• Congrats #9. Nice Job.

  Would like to see some recognition for Humphrey, the kid worked so hard he had to be helped off the field from exhaustion several times. I saw every team play, no other kid on here exerted himself that much.