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I am curious as to the numbers for the following schools: Mendenhall, Richland, Forest, Amory, Louisville, Ripley, Byhalia, Rosa Fort, Sacred Heart, O' Bannon, Union, Resurrection, Lake, Strayhorn, Clarkdale, Belmont, Collins, Water Valley, Aberdeen, Myrtle, Heidelberg, Taylorsville.

yea Shannon going to score more than 34 pts and hopefully to shut them out on the scoreboard, it a get right game for Shannon and it will be over by end of 1st Q. New Albany and Pontotoc will be a lot of running in that game than a lot of passing and yea New Albany can score quickly and Pontotoc got some weakness where New Albany can expose them at, it will come down to who win in the trenchers.

ha. shannon could score as many as they want with saltillo. better get up big at half and let the jv play in the 2nd half. New Albany has established a pattern on D over the past several years and evidently don't understand or simply refuse to adjust to defending the run. their backers are small and evidently aren't taught how to properly read keys. I think Pontotoc will have 250-300 yds rushing and mix in 4 or 5 passes. New Albany can score quick but the key to them is stopping the inside trap.

Pontotoc and New Albany won't be no blow out. what about Shannon and Saltillo

If they turned in 215 or less its very likely borderline or 2A.

One game I’m interested in is Clarkdale and SELauderdale. Clarkdale is 4-0, but their best win has been a close game with Stringer, which isn’t bad bad thing. I think SE is improved, so I will be interested to see how that game turns out. Also kind of interested to see how Quitman and bay springs turns out. I like Bay Springs in that one, but I think Quitman isn’t really as bad as they have looked so far.

Mize has not been fully healthy all season so far, but we hopefully we will be when district play starts in a couple weeks. If we can just get by this week against Newton county, we will have a bye week before starting district play and that should give us some much needed recovery time. Fingers crossed, we should have everybody back this week but they won’t all be at full strength. This exact same thing happened to us last season early on.

Curious where Union will fall this go around. I’ve heard they are expecting to be coming back down to 2A

I wouldn't expect him to throw him under the bus because I think he is good OC. We know him well up here in north MS and other than having a dad who won big when he simply had a butt load of more talent then his opponents there is nothing that says Will will ever be a good HC. He really spoke big of players he recruited and then most didn't touch the field for Huff. I'll wait and see how the Tulane season plays out and then watch to see how his recruiting and portal class looks. Maybe he fools me. I will wait and see.

I am ready to see some official tallys

We played Hattiesburg every year back in the Big 8 days and then we were division rivals for some years through 1980’s and 90’s. And yes, Hattiesburg wins were few and far between through those years. But that was a long time ago and I don’t think that necessarily will affect this game. I still think you have to give Hattiesburg the edge but I look for a much closer game this year. Meridian is vastly improved and this game will IMHO be the best measuring stick for this team to date. Ocean Springs is way down and I think we got the big head against Neshoba Central. We were somewhat better at Starkville but no where near being a top ten team and Columbus is worse than awful. So this game will show me where we stand. And I am glad to play Hattiesburg again. For decades (1920’s-1990’s) Laurel was our biggest rival and with a lot of hate. I miss those days. Man when we played Laurel in any sport, it was going to be physical and very competitive. And Hattiesburg as well to some degree but because we dominated the series in football it was not nearly as heated. Probably around 20 years ago or so we played Hattiesburg at the Rock and that was a fun night for Meridian. I think we won by 40 points and there was probably 7-8K in USM’s stadium including a large contingent from Meridian. Friday, we will be lucky to have 3-4K at Ray Stadium. We had a decent crowd for the Columbus game and this one will probably be a bit larger. But HS football just does not draw large crowds in the present day.

The form said they wanted the September enrollment. If schools are only reporting 15 days counting today September 21st then all numbers will be lower. That's different from the usual October date. Now they have until September 28th to make corrections. My educated guess tells me the numbers can change +/- starting Tuesday morning. The question i have is do you run the risk by adding or subtracting by Monday the 28th of throwing yourself up a class or down a class.

All the numbers and sports schools are playing should be turned in by now.

Jon Sumrall spoke very highly of Will Hall after he took the Florida job. Also, UConn has been a solid program as of late

Good point on UConn. I forgot that they hired Candle from Toledo as their coach. He will have a P4 job sooner rather than later.

I was kind of afraid of this. I read somewhere that 75 players on the roster this year were not on the roster last year. Obviously there is a good bit of turnover nowadays but that many is a recipe for failure. I do think he will have success in the years to come but this year is going to be a struggle. Another thing is Connecticut seems to actually have a decent team this year. Hopefully they can have some success in the Sunbelt. Still have the conference games in front of them.

If u turnover the ball couple of times ,if u don't score when u need to Petal will beat u ask Hattiesburg.

I think USM had among the most transfer portal turnover of anyone in the country. Sometimes that’s going to work out, but if you don’t hit on enough new guys it can be a mess…. See 2024 Mississippi State. I like Blake Anderson and still think he can succeed there. But he does have to prove that he knows how to navigate this era. Most of his success was in the 2010’s and pre portal or pre NIL. Obviously USM hasn’t been an easy place to win for the last 15 years, either.

lotta work needs to be done

From the looks of it the past two games, it does not seem that Will Hall was the problem at all. I get the blowout at Auburn, that was expected. But did anyone see a 28pt blowout loss to UCONN coming? Losing was not going to be a huge surprise. A win felt like a 60/40 win/loss ratio. But that Saturday night felt like the seasons when they had the 23 game losing streak with Ellis Johnson

Week 4 Recap from the Varsity Voices Podcast On this episode, the guys recap several notable games: ON THIS EPISODE Game of the Week — Petal 40, Gulfport 39 Tupelo 56, Oxford 17 in the week's most hyped game, and it wasn't close Seminary 26, Presbyterian Christian 23 (OT) in the quarterback showdown Starkville 20, Louisville 16 keeps the Yellowjackets unbeaten Brandon 40, West Monroe (La.) 23 on homecoming Warren Central 45, Vicksburg 3 in the River City rivalry Plus they hand out Team of the Week and Player of the Week honors.

And i remember nothing about it. And its a possibility they could be in Region 3 6a next yr.

That had to have been the Nov. 9th, 2001 win.

I have seen only one HHS win in Meridian in my lifetime. No matter how good HHS is or how bad Meridian is when we go there more often than not we get boatraced. So if anyone thinks that HHS will or should win comfortably you dont know much about the Meridian/HHS series. Im not even calling it a rivalry since we have been dominated so much.

Hattiesburg has only beaten Meridian 9 times since 1958. That's pretty wild and that's half the wins.