Irish back at Livonia Clarenceville.

Written Sunday March 19th at 11:00 AM

Ryan Irish is back coaching Varsity Football again.

The Livonia Clarenceville football program brought back Irish to be their head Varsity Football Coach.

Irish takes over for Pat Fry, whom took over the team from Irish in 2001, he stepped down after six seasons. Fry led the Trojans to their best ever season going 9-0 and making a deep playoff run. Livonia Clarenceville would get to State Semifinals in 2013 where they lost 35-0 to Grand Rapids West Catholic, they finished 12-1 that season.

Irish coached the Trojans from 2005-2009 but resigned in 2010 to coach at Waterford Mott but had a falling out. He then was an assistant at Royal Oak for one season before taking over the program in 2011. Irish coached the Ravens until 2013 when he became the defensive line and special team's coach at Adams.

Irish re-takes over a Livonia Clarenceville program that finished 6-21 in the last three seasons since that playoff run to the State Semifinals including a 3-6 record last season. The Trojans have the lowest enrollment in the Western Wayne Athletic Conference in the 12 team league (569 students.)

Before Irish coached at Livonia Clarenceville he coached the Orion Junior Varsity program from 2000-2004. Irish coached the Trojans to a 24-23 record including a 9-2 season back in 2008 when Livonia Clarenceville went to the second round losing 28-21 to Almont.

Irish teaches at Livonia Clarenceville. He also does the school's weight room program. According to Hometown Life's Brad Emons, Trojans Athletic Director Kevin Murphy said that Irish was the right choice for the job "He has the most experience back, eight years being a head coach, it was pretty obvious to bring him back, he's in the building and does our school weight room program already and he's great for kids. He's good for football and he works hard at it and he's very passionate. It was a pretty easy choice when you get all those things."

Thoughts.

Irish has been around a long time but finding a home wasn't easy for him but now he finally has a place to coach and it was back where he got his first coaching job. I was surprised why Irish would leave Livonia Clarenceville when he had a ton of support and still does to this day.

Irish is in the building which makes a lot of sense and brings a ton of experience. Irish is a proven winner, the record in 2008 says a lot about that but he will have a lot of challenges at Livonia Clarenceville. Irish must get the players to buy into his system, in which he will. Irish will have a quarterback this season in Junior Terrence Ealy.

Livonia Clarenceville went down from the Western Wayne's Red Division to the Blue Division this season but they still have a tough schedule as teams like Romulus and Dearborn Heights Annapolis. They have tough non league games with Bloomfield Hills Cranbrook-Kingswood and Dearborn Heights Crestwood on the schedule.

We'll see what happens.

You can read Brad Emond's story on Irish's return right here.

http://www.hometownlife.com/story/sports/high-school/livonia/2017/03/16/irish-eyes-smiling-again-clarenceville/99246326/