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Sadly, I worry that may happen. Hopefully we play a competitive game, but I am not confident.

I can tell the future of WC football will be back soon. Their 9th grade/JV played at Hattiesburg last week. Two really good games.

Petal likely to have running clock vs OS from what I've seen of OS

You better get your licks in on WC now. They have a group of Freshmen and another group coming behind them that can flat out play. The freshmen have that size and nastyness of the old powerhouse WC teams. I would not be shocked to see some of those kids playing varsity before the season is over. The defensive and offensive lines are really good and for freshman they are nasty lol

Disagree that it’s not worth paying attention to. It’s as competitive as ever. Anybody can get beat any week. Last week, there were 7 games. 6 of them were decided by less than 1 score and 3 were 1 point games.

Petal wins easily. Meridian will win and the following week vs Starkville will truly see where they stack up in 7a.

Love him or hate him Buddy's firing is a shame. The Board of Directors just like head coaches are paid to be in their positions to ACCEPT criticism and make tough unemotional decisions. To force someone's firing because they voiced displeasure in the way their job is being done is ridiculous whether it was public or not. Buddy obviously has some concerns about the current "playoff" system that is being used. Why couldn't the board set their displeasure with how something was said and rather focus on what was said and seed if their was anything to it or if they could improve on the current system. Knowing Buddy Stevens he generally speaks on behalf of all of the MACJC coaches and the issues that they discuss amongst themselves. Buddy is just the only one that has the "nerves" to say it out loud. Like Buddy or not he is one of the only reasons that the MACJC has not "tanked" it in football already. There is so much parody amongst JUCO teams it is hardly worth watching or paying attention to. MGCCC, NWCC, EMCC are so much further ahead of the others in terms of facilities and talent it is crazy. In North MS if NWCC has offered a kid other JUCO's don't even talk to them because they have 0 chance of him actually considering them. NWCC gets who they want.

OS and Meridian are the two I'm most interested in. Does Meridian keep rolling against Neshoba or do they flop. And does OS make a leap from week 1 to 2 or does Petal hot clock them like Meridian.

Myrtle is a better football team than people realize. Calhoun City has a win over 2A Myrtle who will more than likely win their division. Also beat Charleston in the Jamboree and beat Water Valley in their spring game without many of their starters and they have one of the better coaches if not the best coach in 1A north MS. You will find out how good they are when they beat Aberdeen this week.

I think it’s very possible Resurrection has a winless season unless they beat Christian Collegiate Friday.

I think the north could possibly come down to West Tally and Leflore County. Calhoun City will still be there, but I am not impressed by a 10 point win over Myrtle. Biggersville is down as well. Basically, the real question in 1A this year is can anyone challenge Simmons? 1A as a whole is pretty weak this year outside of them. In my personal opinion, circle round 3 if whoever wins Region 8 (Stringer, Lumberton, Taylorsville) can win their way to that point. If I have it right, I believe Simmons would have to travel to one of those schools. That is what I believe will be Simmons’ biggest challenge.

How about let's just have 10 Juco programs who all play each other in a round robin, then the champion get a national playoff bid without an additional playoff? That makes too much sense.

Touche

Yep. When I saw Richton lost to St Patrick in the jamboree I knew that whole division was weak

Yes. I believe Taylorsville will beat them. And they may even beat richton and finish 3rd. I just don’t see them beating Lumberton and Lumberton isn’t that good either this year.

Exactly. That's why it won't happen LOL.

It was.

Makes too much sense for this not to happen.

I wonder if that was the longest streak in the state?

Based off of what I've heard, he was upset with the fact that they replaced the one playoff game with a 10th regular season game. If anything they should probably expand the JUCO playoffs because before it was only the top two from the North and South to get in and it's a 14 team league. At least have the top 3 from each half get in and give the two 1 seeds a first round bye. Have the 2 seed host the 3 seed the first round, then have the winner travel to the 1 seed for the semi-finals.

It was actually a span of 26 years and 3 days, from 8/25/2000 to 8/28/2026.

Honestly I'd love to see Juco football in Mississippi revamped. Let's be honest: the CC athletic programs don't bring in revenue, they are only expenses for the institutions. There is no TV money, limited sponsors, no merchandise revenue, etc. Yes, the same can be said for many small colleges, but our state doesn't have nearly as many as we have Juco programs. Stephens did what happens to a lot of people: he spoke out of emotions and didn't use his brain. He can't criticize the administration of the state association (which is essentially the arm of the CC Presidents) and not face repercussions.

He should have probably used better wording to voice his displeasure. Most people in authority positions don't respond well to name-calling publicly from persons under their influence. I think he felt bullet-proof from his previous history and didn't think much about it. Just my thoughts

I could possibly go back and say Poplarville. But Pass Christian? I just dont see them being in the top 10 of the best schools on the coast right now.

What has Picayune done this season to say they are above either Pass or Poplarville?? We will be able to answer the question about Poplarville/Picayune in a few weeks. Maybe I am jumping the gun, but to see Picayune get shut out - at Home - for the first time in 20+ years speaks volumes. Gulfport is really, really good. They were last year, and Picayune beat them. Picayune has routinely beaten higher classification teams. So to see them get shut out, in my opinion, speaks volumes to how "down" they may be.