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Also hard to compare private to public schools over time since private schools can recruit, gove scholarships, and arent subject to districts changing and new schools taking away student numbers Take away bolles and glades day above and glades central and MI are tied for number one in playoff appearances among public schools

They had some great teams in the 80's as well but so did vero beach with coach billy livings.... they had some epic showdowns especially in 86 i believe..13-10 vero win in OT at vero in front of 10,000 plus. MI finished 9-1, runner up didnt go to playoffs back then...Growing up in merritt island, it was all about the mustangs, it was a true football community...town shutndown on friday nights in the fall...like friday night lights....the space programs continual decline has hurt the program more than anything

Must be alot of young people on this forum... Florida High School football tradition would not be complete without Merritt Island Mustangs, and they ran the big boy classification fo football in the 1970's. The 1980's still had winning teams and a state champ loss.... the 1990s and on have all produced teams with runs into the playoffs the school opened in 1967 State champs in 72, 78, 79 in the largest classification at the time which was 4a I believe Undefeated in 72, 78, 79 101-15 for the decade 30 game winning streak 32 years out of 49 years school has made it in FHSAA Playoffs (t