Tag Archives: searn

WMA takes attendance, as read by a legend

September 8, 2009 Comments { 0 }

A look around the wide world of high school sports.  Well, not the whole world, mostly just the distance between Lake Michigan and somewhere-in-the-vicinity-of-Lansing, give or take about 50-miles.  In an order wholly indecipherable to the naked eye.  So look closely: Searn’s Super-32 rankings for week-3, where Rockford is on [...]

WMAS takes attendance, as read by Eastsiders who were this close

August 31, 2009 Comments { 0 }

A look around the wide world of high school sports.  Well, not the whole world, mostly just the distance between Lake Michigan and somewhere-in-the-vicinity-of-Lansing, give or take about 50-miles.  In an order wholly indecipherable to the naked eye.  So look closely: East Kentwood & Unity Christian newcomers to TVJB’s Top-10 [...]

AP-Style football rankings

August 27, 2009 Comments { 0 }

The question on everyone’s lips now: is Late truly better than Never? — Brought on by the incredibly timely release of Searn’s Michigan Combined Rankings; an AP-Style ranking system that polls everyone except me about which teams are good.  Therefore, obviously, these rankings are complete rubbish.  But if you would [...]

West Michigan All Star Preseason Football Rankings

August 24, 2009 Comments { 6 }

Letter from the editor: In celebration of the upcoming football season, WMAS is welcoming a guest writer to the mix.  Some of you may remember AGF from his work on Searn’s board and MLive.com’s forums, on which he demonstrated the impressive breadth and depth of his high school football knowledge.  [...]

Does Searn have his head on straighter?

August 14, 2009 Comments { 4 }

If MaxPreps is the Microsoft of high school football rankings in Michigan (ubiquitous, and bloated almost to the point of ineffectiveness), then Searn’s forums are the Macintosh (streamlined, user friendly and laser focused, in this case to Michigan). And a fashionably late three days after MaxPreps published their third attempt [...]