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It definitely allows more schools in the playoffs, but it certainly doesn't make schools more competitive.

i have had two grand kids since states last conference win, congrats

I've went back and forth the last few months on what to do to at least keep the memory of my friend alive on here. If it wasn't for this site I would have never known Patrick along with many more over the years. I have been half catch myself waiting to get word from him on how this or that would play out as the season has gotten ready to be kicked off. Tib, myself and a core of about 20-30 people kept this site from being thrown in the trash heap of failed message boards as the years progressed through the 2000s. He butted heads with some but he was a fair person and could let things go in order to move forward. Not a word from certain people has been put in recognition of him by some that have been on here as long as we were and some that haven't been here as long but have acted like they built this site. Hell oldtiger was pinned to the top and grieved there for I don't remember how many years. I'm not lessening his presence on here either but Tib cast just as big a shadow as that. I will even be more frank I think there is a certain one that still holds a grudge against him because Tib proved him wrong in front of us all and he couldn't take it. When I tried to make the peace and get said "person" to meet him halfway to get Tib back on here they flat out refused. Tib was absent from here for a long time behind that but he finally came back at the behest of several of us and this place was better off for it. Tib always resented that situation and honestly so do I with the way it was handled. It was as wrong then as it is now. This site has gotten less and less traffic in the last fifteen years. We are not a family anymore. I will leave everyone to come up with their own reason for why. I know why and no one will convince me otherwise. I don't know how long this will stay up because of what I said above but I really don't care. He would have said it for me. I feel like I could look over my shoulder right now and he would be nodding his head yes. I miss you on this Friday old friend. I know you would be bugging me this morning about going to stand in the rain with you tonight.

I live in poverty. My car may not start in the morning. The roof is leaking at the back of my house. No computer in my house. Oh look some one is going to give me 7000 dollars. What does anyone really think is going to happen with that money ? This thing is DOA

Having seen Wayne County this year I can say two things. 1. The athletes to be successful are there right now. Not including the ones who were run off, quit, or decided not to play the past few years. 2. Facilities are great and easily among the top in 5A, if not the state. This has potential to be a really, really good job. The right coach, will have them competing for state championships year in and year out.

I think as the season wore on I wasn't right about any the finalists in 7,6 or 5A and how it would play out. These new classes have really blurred the lines. In person I thought WC and Laurel matched up with Brookhaven size wise. Tonight they looked much bigger than WP and basically just pushed WP around as the game wore on. Brookhaven coach had them ready. Good job . They left no doubt.

I have a perfect solution. Haha. We can have a PowerPoint system and have a losers bracket champion and have 14 championship games.

The “top tier” (largest classification of schools) will always feature a huge disparity. The schools at the bottom of that heap (currently 7A) will statistically fit better and compete more strongly with the classification under them. But, I don’t know that there is a good solution. MS is not large enough for 7 classifications.

Lebby is in good shape. Emotions just need to settle down some. This mentality of discarding coaches after a single loss or even a win is just mind boggling. And we might see coaches staying put rather than jumping from the frying pan into the fire. If I have a good gig, why I am I going to leave that for FL or LSU where I going to be set up for failure.

Knee jerking going on in Mississippi I know some place bad but 95% are just fine

sounds like Jackson needs to consolidate down to 3 large high schools and build new stadium for each

this ain't your daddy's Meridian

I look for OG to come out and play as if they were 2-0. If you cant get fired up about playing your crosstown opponent, then something is for sure wrong. If I dont see a packed visitors side that tells me the fans have already given up on them. Despite 0-2 the main goal is still in front of them.

Y’all have been around long enough to know what polls to take serious.

Y’all might as well quit dreaming about less classifications coming back. It ain’t happening.

State softball wins! On to the WCWS! What a performance this weekend as HUGE underdogs. They’ll open with Texas Tech in a few days. Unreal accomplishment.

For the love of everything..... it's PRINCIPAL. Sheesh. Sorry. I had to. Gautier says hello

There is supposed to be an airing of the grievances this evening at the old converted field house that was turned into a sort of stabbin cabin that Branch and Bubba would hole up in doing god knows what. Carry plenty of hand sanitizer and use it if you touch anything in there. I wish I could make it there . I really wish. You won't get any of this from the local news. I will try to make this concise. Those concerned will speak to the board about their questions . Let's be honest it's about Lampley or Gandy not being given a fair shot and they are right. They are right. That was put in place by Hathorne. The madam asst. supt is just along for the ride. The name she is supposed to turn in is a dam good coach and I wouldn't to make tht decision. Coach with the better resume or two guys that got screwed over last time by Hathorne five years ago. Two guys that have the WC brand burned into them. They have the dam scars and that means something to me. For me making that choice would be agony x1000.I'm hearing someone with some strole got involved after Coach Chapman said no more of these sham interviews and told her who she was going to turn in. Hathorne didnt like it but cowered like usual when he didnt have the upper hand. There is still time I guess to pull a fast one but I doubt it. Back when the state got involved with the whole failing school sham ten years ago more or less almost everyone left ,.Only Bubba and his buddy Branch he called over were left as voices from Wayne County to the state. There were certain people on the board that got friendly with them too but are gone now. Any time Hathorne wants to threaten someone he calls his friends in Jax and they give him backing. What the people in Jackson saw was a school district flush with assets and right then went to work to gain control of them. They pretty much did with the friendly, scared board at that time and the imbecile Branch as their installed puppet. Fast forward to now and this current board is not so friendly to these connections so they are meddling every way they can. They would like nothing more than this coaching search flop to turn over board members in this next election to people more agreeable to their requests. I hope it doesn't happen. They already have rigged the supt. selection process now they want control of school boards statewide . Not because they care about students, they want control of those assets. Under state law now each county handles those assets as they see fit and dont even have to report what they do. So when you get up to speak your mind tonight direct your ire at the right people. That board is the only voice the people of Wayne County have left in their school system and deserve a measure of respect.Demand to know who this supt in waiting and by default Hathorne answer to in Jackson. Demand to know why they lied about this so called selection committee. Demand to know why must everything be a secret now. It hasn't always been that way. Demand to know why last month Hathorne got up there and boasted about all the troublemakers that had been dismissed from the football tean during his time as principal and hasn't been called to the carpet for it. He should be dismissed, no contract, no resignation acceptance , no retirement, no paycheck. See you in court fat man. I am still angry about it. I tried to be concise but rambled on I guess. Pray for peace and wisdom tonight Wayne County it's out of our hands now.

It was unacceptable because you have two people who screwed everything up to begin with on the committee making the decision. From what I’ve heard, the retired coach is telling people that nobody had a say except Bubba and the interim superintendent

How anyone who is a member of a school board, be it the superintended, or the desk clerk, could allow an outgoing principle, who was more or less forced to resign, and after the contempt for board members he showed back in December, have any say in filling any job openings, is complete lunacy. He should have been fired for insubordination before new years.

This is true but is his application one of the ones that made the cut? We may never know because someone wants to leave his mark. If I’m on this school board I’m rejecting every recommendation that he has a part in. He’s only looking to keep his buddies moving up the ladder. He’s not worried about the community getting involved as a matter of fact he doesn’t want that to happen.

Make him say no. Mama's calling he wouldn't do it, Him coaching in Alabama doesn't even sound right.

Based on the region they are in they will win it every year which pretty much guarantees them a north half appearance. i could probably find a way to win 10 games at West Point and in the words of Forest Gump….. “I’m not a very smart man”. Who’s going to challenge them in the North? Cleveland - too soft Holmes - too “spread” Lafayette - too wh… I mean slow

It's a done deal

Teaching is a profession where only a few are willing to actually do it, and out of those, only a handful are actually good at it. But for some reason, almost everyone thinks they're qualified to speak on how easy the job is.

Also still cannot get over the fact that BOC is younger than Lemonis. He’s a 54 year old that can pass for 70 lol.

Right now they do not, but part of House Bill 2 would allow homeschooled students to play with their public school. I get it. These families pay school taxes. I also pay school taxes despite the fact my two kids are grown. I pay taxes on lots of things I don't have access to or need because they support the common good. A family who homeschools or sends their kids to private school have actively decided to not take advantage of a public service that is being offered. That's totally fine. I just don't think they should be given public money because of that choice.

Give Nash Morgan the MVP right now

oh lort

sounds like dangerous street ball.

very dumb decision. Every team should have at least 7 district games, meaning 8 team districts. Have 4 districts in 6A and 5A, then divide the remainder among class 4 to 1. Georgia is way bigger than Mississippi and they only have 6 districts.

I understood the argument about the gap between the top and bottom of 6A with 32 teams being very significant. The better solution would have been to make 6A the top 24 with 5A being the next 24 while pushing the others down the line. Those gaps aren't really significant once you move past the top layers. However we all know it was just revenue generation sold under the guise of being more equitable. It's created small regions and classes where teams struggle to get 10 game schedules, multiple winless teams in the "playoffs" which leads to more games, travel, practice, and time away from school. It's not just in football this is happening but could be seen to some degree across other sports as well. 6 classes is plenty and honestly 5 wouldn't be so bad in a state like ours with a shrinking school enrollment as well as consolidations of smaller, rural schools into larger ones. I know the MHSAA has always been about money but it wasn't always so blatantly obvious.

Most of us are waiting to see if coach survives this since he has go before the board to be reinstated as a coach for any and all sports. He is also not allowed to have contact with students. I wonder how that works in the hall way, class room, and lunch table. Has to be weird at school.

No I blame it all on Heidelberg. That was only place where it happened on school property.

Agreed in the last 2-3 minutes of the game Lanier broke runs of 99 and 40 yards pretty much right up the middle. Lanier’s defense looked pretty good in the second half after giving up 22 in the first half

OG got out coached

Lafayette has played and beaten two 7A schools this year (Hernando & Lewisburg). I think this move is a bit of an overreaction, but what really doesn't make sense is making it be an all sport issue. Lafayette Baseball went 2-1 against Oxford last year, right?

@Blakeremember when I had you find us this current house because it was in the Lafayette school district? We now need one in Oxford school district because of this scaredy cat nonsense.

Well we tried to tell them. Speaking of Cham. He made the trip to the game

What ?

This should be a pretty good game. If South Jones can pull off a win, I think we must consider them along with Brookhaven, as possible 5A South favorites to be the sacrificial lamb for West Point in December.

Congrats State fans! Heckuva game.

I agree but no way that was not financial based in the 4th qtr

Only one we got close by that I can think of is Batesville and I got food poisoning last time I ate there so I wasn’t going back anytime soon anyways. They use to be good back in the day but they fell off big time. Poison me once shame one you, poison me twice well you ain’t getting that chance.

Man… Olive Branch used to be a juggernaut

There are fans at every school that say this exact same thing about their school every single year. Nobody, and I mean nobody, knows mize football more than me, and mize has not been the best 2A team in the state ever since they have been in 2A going back to 2005. Nobody was beating Scott central 3 years ago, nobody was beating Charleston 2 years ago and nobody was beating Heidelberg last year. The best teams won the championship every year the last 3 years. Was Mize better than Loyd Star last season? Yes, probably so. But they weren’t better than Loyd Star on that one particular night. That’s the way the game goes, it’s the way it’s always gone ever since the game was invented. But to the average Joe that has absolutely no clue about what’s going on, every loss will always be because of poor coaching. If you don’t believe that just ask enterprisebulldogfan.

I think seminary is being criminally overlooked

Programs with new coaches are teams I think you need to keep an eye on.