'10 MI QB Joe Boisture (Michigan State Verbal)

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'10 MI QB Joe Boisture



Pro-style quarterback
Saline (MI) Saline

Ht: 6-foot-6
Wt: 189 lbs
Class: 2010 (High School)

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10/13

BC has offered.

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Goodrich quarterback moving to Saline

The 6-foot-6, 200-pound junior confirmed Saturday he is moving with his family to the Washtenaw County town south of Ann Arbor and plans to be there in time for the second semester later this month.

Boisture said his father is moving his business there but also said football was a factor in the decision. Saline is a 1,759-student Class A school that plays football in Division 1. Goodrich played last year in Division 4, going 10-1 and reaching the second round of the playoffs.

"Saline is a great program that plays great competition week in and week out," Boisture said. "They play the best of the best, and that will help me get ready for college."

Boisture has scholarship offers from Boston College, Pittsburgh, Cincinnati and Wisconsin so far.

"It's going to be tough leaving Goodrich," he said. "I've made a lot of good friends and have good memories. Last year we went undefeated for the first time in school history. That was pretty cool, doing something that's never been done."

A pro-style quarterback, Boisture passed for 1,700 yards and 13 touchdowns in his first varsity season last fall. He missed his sophomore year with an elbow injury.

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1/20

From the Pitt site...talks about his contact with Pitt and plans to take another trip out there...BC is recruiting him hard...transferring to Saline HS and plans to go to junior days at MSU and Pitt...plans to verbal early.

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It's moving day for rising QB prospect | Freep.com | Detroit Free Press

1/25

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."

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1/28

From SpartanMag...expecting coaches from Wisconsin, Pittsburgh and Boston College at his new school this week...has offers from Pittsburgh, Boston College, Cincinnati and Wisconsin...plans to decide before his senior season and talks about his new team.

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Midwest Recruiting Blog - ESPN

Joe Boisture (Saline, Mich./Saline) is a 6-foot-6 and 190-pounder who is more out of the classic dropback quarterback mold. Boisture has a strong and accurate arm. He sees the field well and makes good decisions.

Boisture threw for close to 1,600 yards and 14 touchdowns during his junior season when he led Goodrich to a 10-1 record. Boisture has transferred to Saline where he will play his senior season.

Boisture has scholarship offers on the table from Pitt, Wisconsin, Cincinnati and Boston College. Michigan State is just one of the many other schools showing interest.

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2/9

From the Pitt site...says he liked Coach Cavanaugh and his interest in Pitt will depend on who they hire to replace him...visiting Pitt later this week...has offers from Pitt, Boston College, Cincinnati and Wisconsin.

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2/12

From the MSU site. Joe talks about his move to Saline and the fact that he will have to fight for the starting job. He plans to visit Pitt, Boston College and Wisconsin soon.

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ESPN

Michigan quarterback picks Boston College
Joe Boisture, a 6-foot-6, 205-pound quarterback from Saline, Mich., has pledged to Boston College over UCLA for the Class of 2010.

The prospect recently transferred to Saline after passing for 1588 yards and 14 touchdowns as a junior at Goodrich HS (Goodrich, Mich.). He also considered offers from Pittsburgh, Wisconsin, Cincinnati and Central Michigan.

Boisture is the grandson of the late Dan Boisture, who was the backfield coach for Duffy Daugherty at Michigan State from 1959 thru the 1965 and 1966 National Championship Seasons. He became head coach at Eastern Michigan for seven seasons (1967-73), with the best winning percentage (69%) by any coach in EMU history.

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Scout.com: Boisture Flips to MSU

By A. Trieu. Boisture has de-committed from Boston College and subsequently verballed to Michigan State.

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I wonder what that means for Bolden.