Bloomfield Hills Andover got itself a new football coach for the upcoming season when Mike Boyd was recently hired to take the reins of the school's gridiron program.
Boyd is a familiar name to the Barons' faithful since he's Andover's highly successful baseball coach.
Last season on the baseball diamond, Boyd's Barons claimed a Class B district title and advanced into the regional finals. This season the Andover Diamond Cutters are expected to be one of the best teams in the area, returning a majority of its lineup from last year.
On Monday, the Barons won their first two games of the 2012 campaign over Stoney Creek and Lowell, respectively in the first day of action in the Oakland County Spring Break Tournament.
Jim De Wald, Andover's head football coach the past few seasons, left his post to take the Birmingham Seaholm job a couple months back. In 2011, De Wald's final campaign on the sidelines, the Barons went 0-9. The program has only won three games in the past three seasons.
The last time Andover fielded a playoff-bound football squad was in 2004 when under the leadership of two-sport star and QB Max Miller, the Barons captured a district crown.
As a prepster himself, Boyd played baseball and football at Berkley. Continuing his career on the diamond after high school, he played on a MAC champion Eastern Michigan during his college days.
He'll be bringing re-enforcements with him to the football coaching job this fall, too. Just this past week, he announced that former NFL All-Pro Lomas Brown would be joining his staff for what might be his only season at the helm.
In 2013, Andover and crosstown rival Bloomfield Hills Lahser will merge and speculation points to longtime Lahser head football coach Dan Loria taking over the merged programs.
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