DETROIT — There were 113 hard-fought yards against powerhouse Brother Rice in the state quarterfinals. There was the six-touchdown onslaught — three rushing, two receiving and one on a 95-yard return — in the semifinals. There was the 207 yards rushing and two more TDs in the title game against Muskegon.
Altogether, Sterling Anderson Jr. scored 15 touchdowns in the state playoffs alone as he helped Detroit King High School win a Michigan state championship last month. It was part of a nearly 2,000 all-purpose yard, 21 TD season, even though King’s starters often sat after the first quarter of early season games.
Blame the transfer portal. Blame the coaching carousel. Blame a lack of leadership or foresight, but this is reality. The sport is currently trying to cram free agency , the draft , the postseason and the coaching carousel into a couple-week stretch. “It’s messed up right now,” said Anderson Sr. “With the players entering the portal or arriving through the portal, these coaches say they don’t know what the roster will look like tomorrow.”
The sport needs time for things to settle. It needs clarity about rosters to be established. It needs head and assistant coaches to move into new jobs. A Midwest assistant that might be advocating for a recruit is suddenly hired on the West Coast where priorities are different. A number of high-major programs are leaving swaths of their roster available for transfers rather than offering high school recruits. Michigan State has just 10 commitments. Ole Miss and UCLA just 12. Historically, every program signed about 25 prep players.
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