Brad Bush

Chelsea. Albion. MHSAA.

[Albion Athletics @gobrits]

🏈: Football's Alex Trudell has been voted this weeks MIAA Football Offensive Player of the Week!
Alex rushed for 110 yards and 4 receptions for 20 yards, in the Brits victory. He also had the game winning touchdown run with 7 seconds remaining!
Congrats Alex! #gobrits

[Brad Bush @Coach_Bush]

Never stopped competing. Proud of these guys!

[Albion Football @AlbionFootball]

This past spring we had Dom join our football team through @GoTeamIMPACT. Dom and his family have attended practices and games, yesterday Dom participated in practice and scored a touchdown!! #PPP #GoBrits

[Dustin Beurer @CoachBeurer]

Send your Prayers and Positive Vibes for Wesley and his family. If you have the means, please consider donating.

https://t.co/5lcWBJffYf

[Albion Football @AlbionFootball]

Under the lights!

One Play. 7 Seconds.

#PPP #GoBrits

[Albion Football @AlbionFootball]

Work week complete.

Back at it on Sunday!

#PPP #GoBrits

[Tripp Gallus 2028 QB1 @Tripp_gallus2]

Top plays from week 4!!
13-18
303yds
6td’s
@HanahanHawksFB @CoachWillis11 @CoachTuttle3 @TylerThedorff @MovinChains @PrepRedzoneSC @iguerin @QBHitList @ChadSimmons_

[Ryan McGee @ESPNMcGee]

This morning’s 9/11 essay from SEC Nation and Marty & McGee. Let’s remember the feeling that we had right after that worst of days. Not the fear. But our willingness to stand together, no matter our background or political differences.

[Albion Football @AlbionFootball]

Pound. Purple. Pound.

#BTC #GoBrits

[Brad Bush @Coach_Bush]

Ready to see these boys compete tomorrow! Go Brits.

[Albion Football @AlbionFootball]

4 days until kickoff!

#GoBrits

[MHSBCA @MHSBCA1]

50 years later All State Certificate is awarded!

Lost in a file folder all these years, finally Tim Hollandsworth (1976) is given his All State Award by his head coach Ron Hillier (Livonia Franklin HS). Hiller is a member of the 1989 MHSBCA Hall of Fame Class.

@FHSMADEBASEBALL

[STATE CHAMPS! Michigan @statechampsmich]

Football means a little more this season for Scott Merchant. 🏈❤️

What started as a routine physical turned into life-threatening news for the Bloomfield Hills head football coach.

Hear his full story tomorrow on the season premiere of the STATE CHAMPS! High School Sports Show at 10:30 AM on @Local4News.

[Brad Bush @Coach_Bush]

Love Fast Friday practice.

[#D3MIAA Sports @MIAA1888]

Albion's Connor Davey Nominated for Prestigious NFF William V. Campbell Trophy 🏈

Read the @gobrits release at https://t.co/bh1Swhk0Dc.

#D3MIAA #MIAAfootball #GreatSince1888 @NFFNetwork

[Kenny Chesney @kennychesney]

Boys Of Fall would not have been the same without my good friend @SeanPayton. This is Sean giving a pregame speech in Naperville, Illinois where he played High School football. This speech wasn’t scripted. He spoke from heart. Sean is a great football coach but he is a great communicator and motivator. This speech still gives me chills. Sean I am forever grateful. It’s football season everyone. KC

[Albion Football @AlbionFootball]

Thank you to the @chargers for coming to campus and evaluating our players.

#GoBrits

[Brad Bush @Coach_Bush]

We are back…
Go Brits!

[William Payne @TweetsbyCoachP]

One thing I’ve probably never said enough is this:

I genuinely love small college athletics. All of it!

Not because it’s perfect. It isn’t.

But because it still feels like college sports were originally meant to feel. Not saying major college sports are bad, because they aren’t, and I love them as well. But there’s something uniquely beautiful about small college athletics.

Most campuses are small enough that people actually know one another. Professors recognize students by name. Coaches see their athletes outside of practice. Faculty, administrators, coaches, and classmates aren’t just sharing the same campus……they’re sharing the same community.

The educational mission still matters. It’s often very much what drives every aspect of the institution.

That’s something worth protecting.

People also forget just how good these athletes are.

Whether they’re in the NCAA, NAIA, USCAA, NJCAA, NCCAA, or another association, they’re still among a tiny percentage of people who continue competing after high school. Less than 7% of high school athletes ever play at any collegiate level.

Think about that.

If you’re still competing, you’ve already accomplished something most athletes never will.

Yet many of these student-athletes spend their careers being told they aren’t “good enough” simply because of the logo on their jersey or the school that recruited them.

I’ve never believed that.

I’ve seen future doctors, teachers, engineers, business owners, coaches, military officers, politicians, clergy, and incredible parents come through small college programs. I’ve watched athletes develop because someone believed in them when bigger schools didn’t. I’ve seen coaches build families instead of rosters.

And YES, I’ve seen many become professional athletes as well.

The crowds may be smaller.

The budgets may be tighter.

The facilities may not make ESPN.

But the relationships are often deeper.

Student sections still know the players. Communities still rally around their teams. Coaches often wear twenty different hats because they care more about the students than the title on their office door.

Small college athletics has always reminded me that success isn’t measured only by TV contracts, NIL deals, or social media followers.

It’s measured by lives changed.

Some of the best coaches I’ve ever met work at schools most people couldn’t find on a map in their own state.

Some of the best teammates, leaders, and human beings I’ve ever known wore uniforms that rarely made national headlines.

Small college athletics doesn’t need anyone’s sympathy.

It deserves more people’s respect.

[Tony Paul | Detroit News @TonyPaul1984]

What an amazing story: One year after the Charlevoix boys golf team was involved in a horrific car crash -- miraculously, they all survived, but their coach and a star player were in really bad shape -- the Rayders today have won the 2026 state championship.
📸: @officialGAM