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East Webster will have a running clock on Biggersville.

Week 3 Preview from the Varsity Voices Podcast On this episode, the guys preview the state's big matchups this weekend like: Brandon vs Clinton Warren Central vs Germantown Hattiesburg vs Oak Grove West Point vs Noxubee PCS vs Pass Christian East Webster vs Biggersville

10 years ago State was littered with stud homegrown defensive linemen. Now it’s our weakness. Stylistically we don’t match up well with Minnesota defensively unless Arnett has some secret sauce

I get that view point but I can't get on board with it. I've got a solution for that too. Let them play some of their regions or class twice or three times if in the playoffs. Before going running hat in hand begging to let us play against your bused in kids. What if MHSAA is planning on filling out some of those classes with private schools at some point behind the scenes ? If you remember I brought this up back in the summer and pretty much everyone thought it was because of more playoff gate. I thought at the time there was more to it but didn't say anything. The man who Wayne County just ran off was a big part of that instituting more classes, He also likes to run his mouth. Just sayin

Tell that part about playing two or three classes up to Brookhaven. Rules man. Rules You assume what I mean when you mentioned IMG, Mater Dei. I assume your position comes from that of someone associated with a private school. Are Tupelo. Brandon, etc governed the same as someone like Simmons ? Is MRA governed by the same rules as far as limiting what players can play based on residence ? If it's different then that's a loophole than can be exploited. That's the sticking point . No getting around it. It may not be that big of a deal now but sometime in the near future it will. In some cases it's getting there now. If the entities aren't brought in together under the same guidelines(which. private schools will never agree to) let me tell you what's going to happen next. Some parents are going to start complaining . Legal counsel is going to get involved and next thing thing you know our high school athletics system will look like Louisiana's. It's destroyed and a joke Things aren't like they were even ten years ago. MHSAA is sitting on their hands and not adapting. Separate them now and let them go their own ways with their own guidelines. Even if MHSAA has to create a whole new division just to handle private,

I didn't see this thread it belongs here I have watched a little of petal this season. .Petal will score. Coach Boyles is gonna do that even he has to leave the defense withnot really that much to play with. That seems to be the case of yet another season. I don’t know a thing about Columbia. I know they are defending champ. If their offense, can’t put up some points against the red panther defense that’s not a good sign.

Let's go back to 6 or 7 schools per region in 1A-4A and i think you eliminate open dates by the time you play your non region rivalry games. Otherwise you have coach Higdon hanging on to playing D'Iberville and whomever he get to replace Forest in an open date situation. Perhaps if we might be fortunate to play Seminary and JDC in non region should they get stuck back in Region 8. Especially if the 1.5 multiplier bumps up PCS, St Patrick, and St Andrew's to 4A or 5A. I expect 3A schools will shift to the south some degree. It wouldn't surprise me that we end up with Louisville, Noxubee, or Yazoo County wilk shift south. 1A should stay 4 regions instead of 8. The coaches are forcing themselves with 7 classes to play larger schools. Honestly 8 regions in 7 classes leaves 1 school with an open every week per class. So if PCS has to play Columbia Academy in week one or Mobile Christian like this year then it is because of 7 classes. Higdon called 3 coaches with open dates October 9th after Forest pulled out. No one wanted to play Raleigh. No one. If we keep trending in that direction you will continue to see Higdon and Mancuso fill their schedule with a large MAIS school. I expect the other coaches to do the same or go out of state.

I like USM to cover the 32. I just think they will play well enough to do so. Auburn is coming off a very emotional win. I think they are in for a letdown. Auburn wins comfortably but it will not be a total blowout. 35-14. State-Minnesota. I am clueless here. I agree with the story line that it will most likely be State’s OL against their DL/LB’s. If they are reasonably good, I like State to win 38-28. If not, it could be a long day at the Huntington Bank Office. We will see. Texas over Ohio State 24-23 A&M wins over AZ State 26-20 KY pulls the upset over Bama and the heat turns up on DeBoar. KY 28, Bama 24. Oklahoma 40, Michigan 6. Missouri 17, Kansas 15. Utah 38, Arkansas 14 Ole Miss 40, Charlotte 10 Tennessee 34, Georgia Tech 10 LSU 20, LA Tech 14 (Officials add a second on to the clock at the end to give LSU one extra play. They score on a Hail Mary pass to win the game!!! LA Tech joins Western Michigan in a class action suit against GST (Game Saving Time).

So how people have always said when smaller schools schedule schools that are 2 to 3 classes above them it’s to prepare them for region play and playoffs, that’s not actually making them better? Should lower class schools stop scheduling higher class schools? I think your comment is a bit of a knee jerk reaction. Almost every year, teams like Tupelo, Oak Grove, Brandon just to name a few will field more future college players than any of the MAIS schools. Teams like JA this year come around every so often like Greenville Christian a few years ago which was a different circumstance and even that team which as of now is the best MAIS school of all time had a battle with Oak Grove. Just this year MRA/JDC was a dang good game and was nothing like 9th/10th graders playing junior college players. Same with Columbia/Hartfield. Those are 2 of the big 4 MAIS schools and I would think of those as 2 good 4A schools rather than junior colleges. You talk as if these schools are like IMG, Bishop Gorman or Mater Dei when in all actuality they may only have 3 or 4 guys that aren’t home grown.

Wammie you know the country isn’t going to give us any respect even if Louisville rubs the floor with JC which I personally hope happens.

I have been hearing this a lot and given history Seminary fields a heck of a football team.

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We talking about private schools brother bert. Long term how do you feel about it ?

Wait what?

Part of me thinks the only thing we’ll learn from the Louisville/ John Curtis game is whether Louisville should be ranked in the top 25 nationally after it. I think they’re playing with house money after how John Curtis played North Shore last week. If they lose then oh well it’s against basically a top 40 team nationally. The other part of me thinks with a win the country should view Louisville as a top 25 team. I started writing this post by saying we won’t really learn anything from this game and then I added this part because I think John Curtis wins but WHAT IF?!?!

Maybe so but Columbia is not that good this year

Some MHSAA schools don't want to play MHSAA now aka Bay Springs/Forest not playing. Bay Springs excuse was our players get hurt vs Raleigh.

Their best bet is to score from 20 yards out. Last year Raleigh got flag after and scored but it was called back inside the 15.

Our heralded ninth grade team read their press clippings last night instead of showing up for a football game. IDK know the final score but Petal slapped them around hard. Petal probably played jalf their varsity but we should beat them too

I have to admit I did not watch any of USM-Alcorn so I don’t really know what to make of USM. I assume Alcorn is still terrible though and even if I watched that game I wouldn’t have learned much. Auburn didn’t look very good in Week 1 but I’m high on Golesh and think their offense will probably be boom or bust this year. Last week was kind of a bust, so I worry that this is a get right game for them. 32 is a big number though.

Don’t be surprised to see Seminary beat Diberville. I think they are the most disrespected team in the South

good chance they will

Dub, Picayune is battle annihilated, so I reckon y'all might be in a better position LOL.

Auburn favored by 32 over USM. Do they cover?

OG is more battle tested. I think that will go a long way. If they don’t start slow.