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Friday's game, in which Boisture had 19 points and 10 rebounds, was the last Goodrich event for the 6-foot-6 junior, who is leaving town with his family today and heading to Saline.

"My dad's business is down there," Boisture said Saturday morning. "He owns mobile home parks, and one of them is struggling."

It isn't a coincidence that Boisture will enroll at Saline, but it has nothing to do with basketball. Boisture is one of the state's best quarterback prospects.

Already, he has scholarship offers from Wisconsin, Boston College, Cincinnati and Pittsburgh. Over three days last week, seven college coaches, including someone from Michigan State and all three of the state's Mid-American Conference schools, stopped by to see Boisture.

Last season, he passed for more than 1,700 yards and 13 touchdowns and led Goodrich to a 10-1 season and a spot in the Division 4 playoffs.

This fall, he will be under center for Saline, who won't be running the wing-T.

"They run the spread," Boisture said. "It's not like the spread option, though. The quarterback is not going to run the ball out of it. It's pretty much strictly passing."

Boisture, who learned a month ago his family was moving, is not a kid who was unhappy or looking for a school with an offense more suited to his abilities. But the move made him a free agent of sorts, able to enroll at the school of his choice.

"I had some restrictions," he said. "We needed to be close to my dad's business, and Saline is right there. There's a lot of good schools down there with (Ann Arbor) Pioneer, but we thought Saline would be the best fit."

Saline seems like the perfect fit. Last fall, senior Nick Moeller passed for more than 2,500 yards and 15 TDs for the Hornets. It isn't a stretch to say that Boisture could improve on those numbers, if he manages to win the starting job.

"I still have to try out for the starting spot wherever I go," he said. "I'm not going to just walk right in and start. There's a little competition I have to fight out, but wherever I go in college I'll have to do that regardless, so this will help."

Although high school athletes transferring seems to be more prevalent today, Boisture never will be able to equal the transferring of his father, Marty.

Marty is the son of the late Dan Boisture, who was a terrific high school football coach, an assistant at Michigan State, the most successful football coach in Eastern Michigan history and the coach of the Detroit Wheels of the World Football League.

"My dad went to four high schools," Boisture said. "He jumped around because of my grandfather's coaching jobs. He went to Bishop Borgess, Ypsilanti, Pioneer and some other school in the conference I'll be playing in. It's going to be weird playing all those schools he went to."
And it will be weird not playing football and basketball for his coaches at Goodrich.

"The coaching staff, they've done everything for me," Boisture said.

"They'd walk through fire for me. Anything I've asked, they've been there for me."

Boisture said he will miss his friends and says he will get back to Goodrich regularly.

But as he settles in at Saline and begins lifting weights and throwing with his teammates, he will find he has a new home with new coaches and new friends.

"I think I'm going to enjoy it," Boisture said. "It seems like a great school. I know some of the guys. The people are real supportive. I think I'll fit right in.

"It just seems like a bigger Goodrich."