Detroit’s Cass Technical High School, home of Michigan-bound ESPNU150 recruits Terry Richardson and Royce Jenkins-Stone beat Catholic Central High School 49-13, becoming the first Detroit Public School to win a Division I State Championship. One fan in attendance, Jack Baughman, was not pleased. Cass Tech head coach Thomas Wilcher, a former Michigan running back, received a letter referring to his players as “ghetto warriors.”

The money part of the letter…

Questions abound: Do your players attend class? Are they, even by DPS standards, eligible? As one looks at the declining enrollment freshman-senior, it is clear that DPS is a failure and in five years your players will be unemployed, in jail, addicted to drugs or worse. In a word–failures. So while Cass celebrates today, the future is bleak and you and everyone associated with DPS is a failure, hence, we have Detroit — a city about to be handed over to a financial manager.

The ghetto warriors had their Saturday but, in life, they are losers.

CC president Richard Ranalletti said the individual was not, to their knowledge, affiliated with the school and hoped the letter was the work of “a misguided child.” Sadly, the seasoned cursive of the signature suggests otherwise.

Public schools depend on property taxes. This might be part of the problem.

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