Friday Night Victors Thoughts and Questions

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• This comment is in response to the Milan post made on Oct 21 at 1:04AM. Yes this is the best job Hoskins has done putting pieces together to make a playoff team, but I sure would love to know who the so called football experts are in the Milan stands that think 5 kids dropping there heads and hitting nothing on a 60yd TD run is funny. Film don't lie. When the teaching stops, so does the coaching. Sure hope you do not coach MYF.

• "I was at the Lincoln/ Milan game last night. Lincoln better play a whole lot better next week than they did last night if they want to move on in the playoffs. Unless they didn't want to show too much. Very vanilla game plan."

  I think this is exactly the case, Grandpa. I felt that as long as Lincoln was able to move the ball on the ground with the QB and RB, there was no reason to open it up. I don't think Lincoln stayed away from the pass because it wasn't working, I think they chose not to use it any more than they did because they didn't want their whole playbook on tape. Of course, I could be wrong.

  Lincoln went exclusively to the air in their 2 minute drill before the half and quickly scored. They also went to the air on a 3rd and long in the 2nd half and picked up the first on a pass across the middle. Milan was able to get some pressure in the backfield, but no so much that Lincoln had to dig very deep in the playbook.

  Milan's been accused over the years of a very vanilla game plan as well, but if a team is executing there's no reason to switch it up. If a team isn't executing, the coaches have a choice to either stay stubborn or dial up plays that they are less confident in--plays that their team likely has fewer reps running in practice.

• They may have to sign off, but they can't delay it or stop it. Some schools may delay transcripts. Athletic motivated transfers are tough to prove. Remember, AD's still have to work with each other. So to put the hammer down on people isn't always the smartest play. I look for the MHSAA to change the transfer rule to 180 days very soon. It may get challenged in court, but I believe it will happen.

• No, I don't believe so, but don't quote me.

• If a Monroe County kid wanted to school of choice to Huron would he be able to?

• EM,
  I thought you were an Airport guy. You now seem to be the website police. What do you care about what somebody says about SMCC?

• The school district the student is leaving does have to sign off on the student. Depending on when this takes place, could depend on how much of a sporting season a player could miss.

  ALSO, most always, here in good ole Monroe County, a student states they are doing school of choice for academic reasons, so the down time is only 180 days. If our AD's around here would put the hammer down, 99% of the time students do not switch schools for academics. If the AD protests this, the school of choice student could very well have to sit out a year for sports. If this would start happening, it would definitely discourage school of choice.

  In the past few years 2 students/players actually left Bedford to play at a school here in town. For Academic reasons. Come on?? Really. Bedford has some of the best academics in Monroe County. No student would leave there if that were true.

• 6:03- beating a 3 win A team is worth the same points as beating a 5 win B team.

• Flat Rock playoff points just below Rouge, 76.111 shows value of playing bad teams at larger class schools. Combined record of all 9 teams played is a dismal 32-49, yet they will get a home field game.

• School of choice is pretty simple. If a school opts to be school of choice, they have to decide how many school of choice kids they want. I'll use Huron as an example since I live in the district. Every year Huron will list how many school of choice kids they are taking by grade. It is usually less than 5 per grade. If Huron has 5 school of choice openings, they will have an open enrollment period. All applications received by that date will be considered. If they have 5 applications or less all of those kids will get in unless they have been expelled from a school or something. If they have more than 5, they go into a lottery and they have a drawing. Also, Huron only accepts students from Wayne County. I believe that is determined by Wayne RESA. Other schools may accept more or less, but the process is the same. The school district that the student is leaving has no say in whether that student can attend another school or not.