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Here is the real problem: too many schools no longer fear the MHSAA because they do not believe the MHSAA has the backbone to impose a punishment that actually hurts. If the reports are accurate that Brandon has violated the football practice rule for a second straight year, then another weak probation does nothing except reinforce that belief. I have talked with athletic directors who openly question whether the MHSAA is willing to come down hard on the powerful programs in Central Mississippi. I have heard administrators say they do not believe MHSAA leadership wants to “go down that road.” Think about what that says about enforcement. If schools believe they can break a rule, take a probation, and keep rolling with no meaningful consequence, then why would anybody fear violating the rule again? Probation without teeth is just paperwork. At some point, repeat violations should bring consequences that actually matter—loss of contests, postseason restrictions, meaningful fines, suspensions, or whatever penalties the MHSAA rulebook legally allows and applies consistently. This is bigger than Brandon. The MHSAA either has authority over all of its member schools, or it does not. A 1A school in rural Mississippi should not have to wonder whether it would receive a harsher punishment than one of the biggest programs in Central Mississippi. Same rulebook. Same enforcement. Same consequences. Until schools believe there is a real price for repeatedly breaking the rules, the MHSAA should not be surprised when some programs stop being afraid of getting caught.

There isn’t going to be any merger or joint committee for anything. Some of yall are worse than a woman in a hair salon.

The more classes the more playoff games the more money for the MHSAA. Do the playoff math. It's all about the Benjamins.

2003-2014 this place was hopping.

You've completely lost your mind saying that Morgan developed that offense from scratch and that we were losing to Oxford year in and year out. Yeah Oxford won from 13-15 but WP was dog walking everyone else in 5A. Including Oxford before 2013. Not sure where you're getting this. Before Morgan became OC West Point was 57-10 vs 5A teams including Starkville and Oxford which were the only teams that stopped them from trips to Jackson in 11-15 So the offense was NEVER developed from scratch. There's footage on YouTube with WP running these same plays in 2011 with Aeris Williams when Morgan WAS NOT OC

Wishing everyone traveling for jamborees safe travels and an injury free night for your athletes.

50 piece....

Friday MHSAA Aberdeen at Shannon Amite County at Tylertown Amory at East Webster Biggersville at Myrtle Biloxi at Petal Booneville at East Union Bruce at Eupora Byers at Strayhorn Caledonia at Houston Calhoun City at Charleston Canton at Pearl Clinton at Vicksburg Columbia at Hancock DeSoto Central at Center Hill East Central at Gautier Franklin County at Natchez Gentry at Leland Grenada at Itawamba AHS Gulfport at Oak Grove Harrison Central at George County Hazlehurst at Lawrence County Independence at Lewisburg J.Z. George at Velma Jackson Kemper County at Enterprise-Clarke Kosciusko at Richland Lafayette at New Albany Lake Cormorant at Hernando Madison Central at Ridgeland Mooreville at Kossuth Morton at Germantown Moss Point at Hattiesburg Mount Olive at East Marion Neshoba Central at West Point Newton County at Lake North Panola at Coffeeville North Pike at Florence O’Bannon at Greenville Okolona at Tupelo Christian Oxford at Horn Lake Pelahatchie at McLaurin Poplarville at Vancleave Port Gibson at South Pike Purvis at PCS Quitman at Forest Richton at St. Patrick Ripley at North Pontotoc St. Stanislaus at Long Beach Saltillo at Pontotoc Sebastopol at Union Stone at Forrest Co. AHS Strayhorn at North Panola Terry at Northwest Rankin Tishomingo County at Hatley Tupelo at South Panola Vardaman at South Pontotoc Warren Central at Brandon Wayne County at Pascagoula West Harrison at Pass Christian West Tallahatchie at Water Valley Wilkinson County at Jefferson County At Ethel 6 p.m. — Pisgah vs. Nanih Waiya 7 p.m. — Ethel vs. Smithville At Humphreys County 6 p.m. — South Delta vs. Amanda Elzy 7 p.m. — Humphreys County vs. Shaw Jones College Jamboree At Jones College, Ellisville 2 p.m. — Seminary vs. West Jones 4 p.m. — South Jones vs. Magee 6 p.m. — Sumrall vs. Northeast Jones 8 p.m. — Laurel vs. Heidelberg JPS Jamboree At Hughes Field 5:30 p.m. — McAdams vs. Newton (1 quarter) 5:50 p.m. — McAdams vs. Raymond (1 quarter) 6:10 p.m. — Raymond vs. Newton (1 quarter) 6:30 p.m. — Lanier vs. McComb (1 quarter) 7:15 p.m. — Callaway vs. McComb (1 quarter) 8 p.m. — Murrah vs. Yazoo City (2 quarters) 8:55 p.m. — Lanier vs. Callaway (1 quarter) Lauderdale County Jamboree At West Lauderdale 6 p.m. — Clarkdale vs. NE Lauderdale 8 p.m. — West Lauderdale vs. SE Lauderdale At Louisville 4:30 p.m. — Choctaw County vs. Philadelphia 6 p.m. — Starkville vs. Holmes County 7:30 p.m. — Louisville vs. Meridian Lincoln County Jamboree At West Lincoln 7:30 p.m. — West Lincoln vs. Loyd Star 8 p.m. — Bogue Chitto vs. Enterprise-Lincoln 8:30 p.m. — Loyd Star vs. Bogue Chitto 9 p.m. — Enterprise-Lincoln vs. West Lincoln Mantachie Jamboree 6 p.m. — Mantachie vs. Nettleton 7:30 p.m. — Belmont vs. Hamilton Smith County Jamboree At Taylorsville 4 p.m. — Collins vs. Lumberton 5:30 p.m. — Mize vs. Scott Central 7 p.m. — Raleigh vs. Jim Hill 8:30 p.m. — Taylorsville vs. West Marion At Southaven 5:30 p.m. — Rosa Fort vs. Greenwood 7 p.m. — Clarksdale vs. Southaven At Stringer 4 p.m. — Jefferson Davis County vs. Bay Springs (1 quarter) 4:30 p.m. — Perry Central vs. Bay Springs (1 quarter) 5 p.m. — Perry Central vs. Jefferson Davis County (1 quarter) 5:30 p.m. — Puckett vs. South Choctaw (Ala.) (2 quarters) 6:30 p.m. — Stringer vs. South Choctaw (Ala.) (2 quarters) At Yazoo County 6 p.m. — Crystal Springs vs. Simmons (1 quarter) 6:35 p.m. — Yazoo County vs. Simmons (1 quarter) 7:05 p.m. — Yazoo County vs. Crystal Springs (1 quarter) Saturday At Louisville 11 a.m. — Noxapater vs. West Lowndes 12:30 p.m. — Winona vs. Columbus 2 p.m. — Leake Central vs. Choctaw Central 3:30 p.m. — Noxubee County vs. New Hope

Mississippi doesn't even have enough high schools for 6 classes much less 7. And no matter how many you have, no more than half should make the playoffs. When 4 out of 6 division teams make the playoffs, it becomes like a trophy for everyone. Ridiculous!

That’s not the case for Forest. Forest will have already played their first region game, and would have had Raymond the next week after Raleigh. They just chickened out. There’s no other explanation.

In another thread it's asked where is everyone. This is an example. You come correct or your card will get pulled. Some can't handle it

Not my work but I wish it was

Every time I see a Baldwin post I think of my friend OldTiger. Bobby was one of a kind a very good friend and he loved his Bearcats

I lived through Joe Moorhead 2018 and can confirm that no situation is too good for a crappy first year head coach to mess up. Now, I think there’s reason to believe Golding is far more competent than Moorhead. But you never know with these things. Everyone thought Moorhead was a great hire until one fateful night in Lexington, Kentucky.

Defensive and testy. Someone must have stepped on your toes LOL.

But they were still a 4 seed and they couldn’t even tread water against Hattiesburg and got shut out by Goula. Having a good player isn’t going to make or break them because it’s a team effort. Everyone else is going to have to do their job for them to improve upon their success from last season. Having a good player definitely helps, but that can only take you so far. I genuinely believe they can make some noise and are getting better, but who they make noise against remains to be seen.

Nah mainly because Starkville will run the ball much more than last year and the clock will roll pretty fast. OG had a bunch of guys starting 7A ball for the first time ever in their matchup last year especially on defense

I agree fully. I do believe PRC will show up and play hard, but like you said there's a lot of excitement and rejuvenation in Waynesboro. If the game is tight and close, I don't see that favoring PRC. In order for PRC to go to Waynesboro and win this one, they'll need to go up by a couple of scores very quickly and maintain that lead. This game won't be easy for PRC.

I'll probably be 70% on these. I just think Wayne will be rejuvenated with new HC. Still working regular job as prognosticator hasn't paid off yet.

Enterprise is a senior team with a lot of experience Stringer's best player graduated I feel Stringer is being overhyped I know you cant judge everything from a jamboree but Enterprise played even with a team with a lot more speed and better athletes than Stringer. We are a big physical team and Stringer is going to have a lot of trouble running against us.

It was close last year. D'Iberville survived on 1 play.

Only way that happens is if west coaches never have more than half the starters on the field at a time and none more than like 4 plays. Due to not wanting to allow their first 3 regular season opponents (Laurel, nej, sj, in that order) to see what they working with.

That's funny since last year it wasn't announced until 8-18-25 and the new announcement was on the 17th of this year. No one really expects anything different at this point when dealing with the good old boy system of MHSAA.

I was told the 1st probation ended the day before.

If I’m Brandon, may as well practice early again next year if all you get is a slap on the wrist.

So 2nd year in a row, same offense, and still a stern lecture and finger shake??? Oh, wait, it's BRANDON I see

Top 5 in the state for sure

Is it fair to say that they are recruiting against one another, so how, or can you, regulate that at all given two separate governing bodies? The way it is, the bigger school in the area with the most money, whether MHSAA or MAIS, is going to end up with all the athletes. It's just like college is going. They're going to NIL them up from the smaller schools. The toothpaste is out of the tube. There's no putting it back at either level. It's pay to play.

If a clean merger and a big IF here is the current numbers: MHSAA 7A 25 6A 24 5A 25 Leake Central Added 4A 39 Leake Central subtracted 3A 40 2A 40 1A 47 240 Total Will drop to 237 when Leflore County/Greenwood and North Tippah completes consolidation. MAIS 3A 20 2A 20, 18 Football 1A 32, ALL 8 Man Football, 3 non Football 95 Total Merger = 332 Total Possible 7 Classes breakdown 7A 32 6A 32 5A 32 4A 57 3A 57 2A 57 1A 57 If you keep 8 Amanda and increase it to 40 then here is the 4A to 8 man setup: 4A 55 or 48 3A 55 or 48 2A 55 or 48 1A 55 or 67 currently 12 non football MHSAA 8 man 40 Then its possible 8 man grows to above 40 to around 48 dropping 4A-1A to actually 53 each.

That's why I say scheduling agreements, fan issues, etc were probably brought up.

Why would you want to lose a home game and play at a neutral site? You play at a neutral site then after you pay the cost to rent the field and pay their people who provide security among other things, you end up losing money

You may be right, but I find that hard to believe. To begin with MHSAA schools aren't going to want a merger without a multiplier for the private schools. And I'm sure that's just one of many sticking points between the two that will be an issue.

Admit it. After the conversations around H’burg recruiting Tuesday as soon as you saw the thread title you felt uneasy. As soon as he named Hattiesburg you felt your cheeks tighten a bit.

I remember last season about 13 schools were put on probation for putting pads on too early

It will eventually get dimmer once the season starts and the games are played.

It's nice to see you back WABO. One of the OG mods LOL.

Well. That certainly took a direction.

Vott this has nothing to do with Petal at Hattiesburg. If you want to address his comment, he’s mentioning WR corps. You know that’s like pissing in the wind at Picayune. If we ever get a guy to have double digit receptions in a game, that record would take decades to break. We would all be witnesses to history being made if that ever happened.

Sorry, but breaking in an entire new o line will take more than 1 quarter. Probably more than a couple games. Hattiesburg, as much as yall don’t want to accept, are not to the point of reloading immediately after loosing a large group of talented 3 year starters like you just had graduate. And the coaches know it or they would not have been openly recruiting so much this offseason trying to quickly piece together a team they think might be capable of winning.

7 classes have given us 5 team regions with 1-9 records making the playoffs. With all the open dates this year its going to be some 1-8 records in the playoffs. Right now in 2A you have 4 team regions all 4 in the playoffs and yes 0-10 goes as a 4 seed. In 1A north you have appx 10 nonfootball schools out of roughly 24 or so. That means you have 6 team regions with up to 3 non football teams in the region. Somewhere 1 seeds get buys now. 1A set up has to change or simply go back to 4 regions maybe 6 regions if it can be worked out fairly. With 6 there will be some buys. At least those schools get back to 10 game seasons and not 8 game seasons. 6 classes were better. 5 classes is probably where we need to be even if it leaves 3 teams per region at home. And now we have coaches that won't schedule certain teams or certain coaches for what ever reason. Like Forest dropping Raleigh or Bay Springs dropping Raleigh because the excuse was in Spring of 25 that Raleigh players hurt us then you schedule a team 3 hours away. Coaches have got to get tougher in some areas. Consolidation is or will happen over time. Nothing you can do but grow your county or your town.

I liked that trip to Brandon a couple of years ago. Took the day off. Went to Bass Pro and ate at Cock of the Walk on the Res and still had time to kill LOL. Tib was there too so it's definitely a good memory.

Unfortunately we have left the times of “where is the right in any of that” and entered the time of. “If it is profitable for us/me then it must be right regardless of its impact on others”.

I get what you are saying man and maybe the thread kind of veer away from the thread title but i think it went in the right direction. If the post season in our state were a half trashy wedding, Tupelo would have been the chubby ring bearer with a flat top mullet haircut from noxapeter. Then after people who would know, said they were recruiting they suddenly get a new position in the hierarchy. It has already resulted in one recent title and almost got another. They got scolded by I really don’t know who up there in Clinton but judging by the team of junior college size players from last year, they are laughing at your reprimand. Gulfport was being mentioned along with Hattiesburg but judging by some people in the Pine belt, Hattiesburg seems to be more brazen. There was some confusion maybe on purpose about what’s allowed or not allowed by the fine people that make those calls. That’s where the threads at. Here is the truth of the matter . There are some of the states especially the bigger schools that are starting to skirt the rules. These schools are contenders. It’s wrong. It’s not fair to the teams kids that they play. It creates an advantage that other teams cannot exploit. Where is the right in any of that ? In my gut, I don’t think there is a governing body in place that is capable of handling this problem.

There is no way a head coach can go into any school 4 weeks before the season and have any success. Just go ahead and play the season with the coaches they have now. You really have to feel bad for the players at this point

You are not alone. And it’s getting obvious they feel the heat. Let petal mess around and win one before Hattiesburg it will cause bedlam.

I do find it funny how Hattiesburg is now the cool school to play at in the pine belt and still can’t buy a state title meanwhile Oak Grove is up to 3 now.

Question. Who/what is TCPS?

They recruit for a reason. Their actual, local talent isn’t good enough. So they go recruit others.

I don’t buy their reasoning either. They just didn’t want to play the game.

IMO, digital tickets was the dumbest thing ever invented. Paying cash at a ticket booth is the easiest and most convenient way.