2023 Playoff Ephemera

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• Gary any chance Airport passes Adrian in playoff points if they both win out?

  • Yes. But they will be close.

    • If they both win out, Airport will finish with ~63 points. Adrian would finish with ~60.5

      • You figured out how all 9 opponents on both teams schedules will do for the next 3 weeks?

        • Yes sir. Even if my predictions are wrong on a few of the games, Airport will easily finish above Adrian if they both win out.

        • Nice,

          I'll do the same in the next week or 2.
          Hopefully Pizzo is healthy, I dont think GI beats HF without him.

• Never said be projected anything. But he’s good. I’d rather hear about the rest of the post I submitted with your thoughts. No one likes country day lol

  • Oh I thought you were saying he is good, meaning Country Day would be in. And didn’t you bring up Country Day? And didn’t you say they would be in? Anyway.

    Both Airport and Flat Rock can make it to a Semi(I think FR would have a better chance to do so) if they both wind up with favorable draws. You are right pretty much correct on all you said…. Minus the DCD part :)

• Just imagine if SMCC didn't lose to Grosse Ile. Any given Friday! Pulling for my Falcons to upset people the rest of this year. If anyone can do it, it is Coach Kipf and his staff along with this group of young kids who work so hard every week.

• Great report, really enjoy this coverage .Falcon from “55”…..
  Aniel DeFIore

  • Thanks Aniel, hope everything is going well!

• What would make a 3-3 Harper Woods a tough opponent for Airport? I assume they play in a tough league.

  • Their entire schedule is Div 1 and Div 2 schools. 2 of their 3 losses are to 6-0 Div 1 teams.

    • Snooze has AP opening up against Country Day. It’s early but he does a fantastic job with this stuff. They lost to warren Michigan C by 6 points who destroyed SMCC week 1. Country Day will bear powers and SMCC and make it in. In that same district would be Divine Child who is very good and just lost to JLC 14-7 and beat a D-2 51 Milford team. Could work out where you go in against Adrian or Chelsea which is if I’m an AP fan, That’s what I want to happen because you’d be evenly matched with talent with those teams although Chelsea would have much more depth and less two way starters. Also very well coached. They wouldn’t want to play Harper Woods. And that could be a possibility as well.

      Flat Rock to the semi’s is possible if they get an amazing draw. They would want Milan to make it in and push Marine City out of that region. But also very possible that Williamston doesn’t get pushed west because they are in no man land geographically. Pontiac ND prep could also very easily end up in that region. No one should want to play them other than the Grand Rapids teams. Best Notre Dame Prep team in a very long time.

      Riverview would have a very good chance to win a district. Trenton wouldn’t be a pushover. But Port Huron or most likely Detroit MLK would be waiting in the regional.

      Should be fun to see how it shakes out .

      • Snooze doesn’t project, he only pairs the teams that are currently in. If you notice DCD is the last team in. Country Day probably won’t make it in after week 9. Even if they go 2-1 the rest of the way. Beating a 2 or 3 win D5 & 7 school will doom them.

  • I've seen them and they are an absolute load. Big, strong, fast with D1 players in there. Airport doesn't have the size, strength, or speed running a spread offense to contend with that. They'll stuff Airport at the line of scrimmage on every play and the receivers won't get much against those athletes in secondary. Yes, they play a tough schedule compared to what's around here.

    • Dundee the biggest underachieving team in the County
      Don’t be surprised if Milan loses to Skyline

      • That is hardly fair to Dundee. FR and Clinton are just better. Blissfield is also a good team.

        Nobody will be all that surprised it Milan loses to Skyline. I do think they will get the W however.

        • What do you think will happen with Whiteford if Cassopolis or Decatur sneak in? Also there are 3-4 teams (Mount Clemens, Rochester Hills NW, ATAP and Detroit Douglass) around that Detroit area would that pull or push Whiteford a certain way.

        • Honestly... too early to play that game.
          Give it another week or so and I will take questions like this and go through every game.
          Im much better at forecasting who will be in, vice where they will go.

        • Do you see a scenario where Whiteford and Hudson aren’t in the same district? Or regional?

        • Yes... Summerfield is the key. They would need to make the playoffs. Week 8 vs Quincy is the win they need to have. Otherwise, with them gone, I believe that would link up Hudson and Whiteford in the district.
          Region? I dont see that, no.

    • So in other words WS no need for Airport to show up cause they will get shut out. Ok got it. I'm sure Harper Woods has talent, but you make them sound like they are Belleville or that OLSM team Huron played in the semis.

      • So basically Harper Woods is a handpicked team of stars who were recruited. It's really not a team of players from Harper Woods. The qb was recruited out of Canada. I'm surprised MHSAA allows it, but then again, Farmington Harrison racked up state championships doing it for years and got away with it. That's how a team in this state has a roster with multiple d1 players on it. I'm sure there's probably a dozen teams in the state doing it. If you lose to a team like that, it's just losing to an all star team.

        • I’d worry about Chelsea and Adrian before looking ahead to Harper Woods. Chelsea only loss to GR Northview who is pretty good this year. Chelsea will two platoon and has another college running back little brother of the last kid and two committed division 1 lineman. Not the best Chelsea team they’ve had but very well coached and will have 60 kids on the roster.

      • The weakness on Harper Woods would be conditioning. They tire, so if Airport can play to a strategy that tires those big guys out by the second half, maybe they stay in the game.

      • They'll play, I just don't see what Airport has that can contend with that. The Airport WR's won't get any separation from that speed. It's not at all a fair fight.

        • WS the earliest they would most likely play is the regional finals, so we got plenty of time to break the game down. If Airport is hosting a regional final I'll roll the dice and take my chances.

  • yes tough schedule(its ridiculous for a D4 team)... excellent athletes. Very good coach.