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You can go to MaxPreps to compare and that will give you specific numbers, but it's about half of last year's regarding yardage and TD's. It should pick up some, but it's not going to hit last years numbers.

I will say will all 24 schools have their open date later in the year with the odd numbered regions or will another region say Region 1 6A go odd numbered and give them a chance to keep their open date in like week 4 or 5 as it is now for many. Will these coaches be happy with a South Panola -- Tupelo game being played as non region.

No knowledge what so ever. The option is there with his authority to do so.

Out of curiosity what are Dennis rushing stats this yr compared to last season?

In all fairness this region is weak. WC honestly has way more quality athletes. I don’t mean that to throw off on the others but it’s true and the turnover of athletes is picking up. The thing is he’s winning with the same athletes that others didn’t. He changed the culture and the style of play and the kids bought in

I was really impressed with the way #22 played against Gautier. I know he hasn't played much this year at tailback, but he definitely provides a punch when you need to start going downhill to get a 1st down. I just hope we've got some passes we can throw and complete because right now our passing game is beyond graveyard dead. I don't think we attempted a single pass against Gautier.

That “td” came late in the 4th. Prior to that, Meridian stalled out on 2 straight drives. OG was not the better team that night, meridian playcalling was questionable

Well he's reinvigorated the team, fan base, and community. You can't really put a price on that and it's probably worth more than a win on the scoreboard. He took his lumps early and now you can see the reward of it.

Have you been told specifically about tupelo and oxford staying in region 1 or is this just speculation?

I agree with you about the coach of the year. WC lost to PRC, GC, WJ in the last few seconds by a total of 10 points. So he’s not only a first year head coach with a really young team but he’s a few seconds away from having one loss.

Home field wrapped up WC has shook the curse of Hathorne. NEJ is still under it. I don't know if there are any coach of the year awards but if there is my coach better be on it. Look at the margin of victory in these district games. Yes it's a sorry district . It doesn't change the fact that they have done exactly what was supposed to be done to every district foe. What about the officials in Purvis coach ?

Director has the authority now to divide it by 7/5/5/7 so that changes things. Tupelo and Oxford may stay north this time around.

be interesting to see if senatobia/greenwood or houston beat Kosy and then face Louisville

Shannon is a very totally different team than that 2nd game against Louisville, Shannon learn a very good things about their self from that 28 pt blow out, that Louisville lost got themself playing whole lot better than that 2nd game

6 in every region is the most fair. Especially when it comes to playoffs. Tupelo and Oxford have switched out every 2 years between R1 and R2 to keep things even and equal. Same could happen for R3 and R4. Petal and OG have to travel north over an hour for every district game except each other (and even those 2 schools are 30 mins apart). Same for Madison Central & Germantown in R2. Honestly, 1-1.5 hours really isn’t that bad for the largest division in the State. It’s just not gonna be what these 1-3A distances are.

maybe i was too fast on just handing Petal a playoff spot i just saw that it' a defacto playoff game . Winner in loser done for the season

Having watched that livestream, Meridian definitely should not have won that game. In fact, OG should’ve had at least 1 more TD than the scoreboard showed after the ref made the crazy call in the endzone and nullified the pass reception with a minute left. It was clear the refs got tired of hearing Vance’s bellyaching on the sidelines in the 2nd half and quit calling things on Meridian just to hush the crybaby and keep him from running on the field & getting in their faces after every play. No doubt Meridian is better than their norm. But not necessarily an overall team improvement - it’s all Hill. Just like in 2023 with his older brother when Meridian went into playoffs as the R3 #4 seed. Went down to R4 #1 seed Ocean Springs and beat them, then went to OG in round 2 and lost. But R3 is generally & historically better than R4 anyway top to bottom. We’ll see if this year is an exception like last year was. It had been nearly a decade since someone other than Brandon or OG went to the ship from the South up until then

I see where East Mississippi opened up the job.

Picayune will if Stogner starts calling plays. Picayunes OC sucks at play calling.

Will East Mississippi or give it to the interim?

With both Holmes CC and East MC CC coming open, gotta wonder if some successful high school coaches will be candidates for those.

Any rumors to HS coaching departures? Voluntarily or other?

In that scenario I would be hesitant to pick Petal. But I also wouldn’t bet against Boyles.

We had plan to run it some. But piersons offense passes to open the run. Coaches saw very quickly that it was not going to be possible against that d line. Especially not with #10 still hobbled with nagging ankle issue.

If petal is at Gulfport round 1 I would not pick petal. Gulfport will be out for absolute blood. Every team that went to petal and lost came out complaining to the high heavens about the officiating. A few that went to petal and won came out complaining about officiating.