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I coached for a long time at small schools and a big schools. I strongly believe that JH football should be about teaching fundamentals and not so much about scheme. You should try to be in lockstep with the HS program with scheme, but fundamentals take precedence in JH. In a small school the JH Football period is usually during the school day and is about 45 min to an hour long. Most of the time it was just me and one other guy. Now during that time you have to get them dressed, practice, undressed, and back to class. This cuts your actual practice time down to around 30 minutes. Some may say practice before or after school. Problems with that are: 1. Most kids, at the schools I worked at, rode the bus to school. Therefore, making before school practice not possible. 2. I was a varsity assistant as well & had varsity practice after school. Because of these factors, I was on the field during most JH games & we did not incorporate special teams. When I was at larger schools, we had a separate JH staff of 5 to 6 guys that all they did was coach JH football. They practiced after school for at least 90 minutes. Coaches were on the sidelines during games & special teams were incorporated. As to your point on the clock, I agree totally. Nothing worse than driving somewhere to play and have four 8 min running quarters. I was always in favor of four 8 minute regulation quarters for 8th Grade & and four 7 minute regulation quarters for 7th grade. I will finish my diatribe with this. I would caution painting coaches "lazy" with such a broad brush without knowing the inner workings of the day-to-day and personnel at the school in question.

7th grade equipment day. Don't give me nightmares. Lol.

I only know two men who is are refs. Both are out of Jackson area. They graduated from Raleigh back in the 70s early 80s. Those Laurel refs will treat them Jags well. Better than Hattiesburg refs.

OG ain’t ready for them Cats my boy ladarian Shaw comin….

Lamar should never be in the same sentence as MRA and Prep.

This is funny.

Forest gets my vote.