Andre Rison plans on 'winning it all' as he takes over as football coach at Flint Northwestern High School

Humility was never among Andre Rison's strengths as a football player, so it should be no surprise that he might be setting the ball impossibly high for his players as a coach.

Rison, who became the head coach at his alma mater, Flint Northwestern, in March, talked recently with ESPN.com about what he expects from a program he says has lost more than 100 games in the last 12 years.

"I got some guys that been around the game for a long time. Some of them are family members, and I'm looking forward to it, I'm excited," he said. "We plan on winning it all."

Now, in his defense, at least he didn't add a "this year" on the end of that quote, but who really knows what he intended — this is a man who still refers to himself as the greatest receiver of all time.

Quick turnarounds are certainly possible at depleted inner-city programs. Just down the road at Flint Beecher, another former Michigan State great and NFL receiver Courtney Hawkins helped remake his former high school into a perennial contender as coach. Rison actually could've had a piece of that turnaround. He was briefly on Hawkins' staff at Beecher, but dismissed after a falling out. Although the dismissal was never publicly explained, urban legend in Flint has it that Rison thought he should call the offensive plays. And why not? That's a fair request for the wide receivers coach to make. It's been a few years since his first brief foray into coaching, and this fall Rison will get to call those plays, which, win or lose, should be extremely interesting.