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Well he’s got 2 state championships, Raleigh has 2 state championships, and Mancuso has like 9. West Point doesn’t run a wing-t but they also don’t run the spread. But I get it, some fans just dont really want to win unless they see the ball in the air.

I'll learn if I need to be more or less restrained this week LOL.

I think Meridian will really know what they have when they play Starkville. OS looks pretty down at the moment . I will say even when they were rolling Boyles took Meridian to Ocean Springs and won a first round playoff game just a few seasons ago. Good win nonetheless

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.

Well fans definitely know what they are talking about, so Picayune’s coaching staff needs to listen to them and do exactly what the fans say they need to be doing.

I don’t think you understand lol … John Curtis is one of the premier programs in Louisiana they aren’t a “might give Louisville a game” type of team.

BoKnows and I have joined to do a small weekly review this season. MS is a big state and painting a picture of it with even a football roundup is impossible. We will develop it as the season goes on but the primary goal is for it to be interesting for all classes statewide. Cool Heads Soft Points for August 28 Moving on from a Kiffin doesn't mean a downgrade Oxford dominated Collierville in a game that told its story in the way that they just imposed their will on them when they wanted to. Could it be that they are better off without boy kiffin ? Look out Tupelo here they come. Was it real or AI? Tupelo thrashed Brandon. This game was supposed to at least give some idea on where these teams stood in the hierarchy of their classification. Either Tupelo is really good or Brandon is really freaking bad. Which is it? This game told us nothing. It was like asking AI to create last year’s Tupelo versus last year‘s Brandon The joke writes itself Shetland Gandy really left Tony Vance stacked and was on the cusp of getting Meridian back to prominence. When you can stop laughing, raise one up for Tony Vance. I’ve rode the man’s antics like Seabiscuit for years. One thing I know he knows football. Putting kids out there that don’t turn the ball over and a tough hard nose. defense wins at all levels. Could the worm be turning a little in the south in class 7A ? Welcome back to the conversation. Can you really ever go back home ? If you had told me 10 years ago that a West Jones team coached by Scott Pierson couldn’t adjust to the same play for I don’t know how many touchdowns I would have laughed in your face. To be up by three touchdowns only to get blown out because of said play I still have a hard time believing it really happened. Interesting : Holmes County Central, West Point, Wayne County, Raleigh. Desoto Central, Heidelberg

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.

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.

Laurel has a bunch of old bricks. Does that count? LOL

Obviously appeasement don’t work with you so we will go down this road. you put awful a lot of words in my mouth there I didn’t say. Point blank you’re a liar. You’re probably a big liar in real life too, but I don’t know. I don’t wanna know you at all. So from now on on this site every post you make every period you type out I’m gonna be there. With a snide remark, a lie whatever. Whatever I have to do to disrupt any discussion, you try to have . So much so that it will probably disrupt the board. I don’t care. if I get my account taken away. I don’t care if you get your account taken away. I don’t care if both accounts get taken away.. Heres something else. You don’t ever start any threads. You don’t ever bring anything anybody wants to participate in You’re boring .Nobody likes you. Nobody wants you here but here you are. Enjoy your Morgan

Not my work but I wish it was

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

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

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!

Enjoy it. They don’t stay little long.

Didn’t see that coming. That could be a rematch for the 1A state championship.

With West Tally losing to West Bolivar tonight and Leflore County beating Simmons, I would say Leflore County is the team in 1A North to keep an eye on.

dry as a rock up here in North MS

If it’s someone like Trinidad, load your weapons SEC we’re going to war. But this is over a 2nd string TE and an undrafted DT. It’s not worth losing a conference membership over

The issues with this team run deep. (see my comments on the Meridian post) There's a chance that they don't get a win until West Harrison or HC

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

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.

Even though I like PCS here, Mize has a really good football team, wouldn’t be surprised if they won

Brandon- They have to be teetering off a cliff. Their class and region is not one favorable to a get better as the season goes along mentality.

When's he supposed to get a drink of water? Maybe he can sneak some in between possession changes, quarter changes, and timeouts LOL.

There’s not a whole lot more to be added about the game last night. What I will say is they done a damn good job of protecting their quarterback. What I mean by that they didn’t put the game on his shoulders. Everything they asked him to do you could tell he had done it repetitively in practice. The only other thing is Vance‘s favorite cartoon coming up must have been the Thundercats because he shines when leading some type of felines. I didn’t mean for that to rhyme. It just came out that way.

69-13 since 2020. That's already more wins than any other decade in Raleigh history and that's only 6 years into the 2020s.

Gotta have the bricks to build anything..Raleigh usually has some solid ones.

I can say that I do not think the Nolan Wells case was a big enough distraction to get beat like we did, but I can say it was somewhat of a distraction. His younger brother, Elmore is a starting wide receiver on the team and most of these kids played with Nolan. My son has said that is a pretty hot topic at school, at practice, in the weight room, etc. There has also been a pretty fair amount of division in the community as well. Again, I do not think it was something that aided in Ocean Springs looking bad like they did, but it has definitely been somewhat of a distraction. We graduated a ton of players last year, we had a pretty large amount of coaching turnover this off-season. We looked unathletic and slow on both sides of the ball. I am not sure what Coach Bramlett sees for us to focus on being a 4 wide, Air Raid style of offense, but hopefully after last night, he sees we are not good enough up front or athletic enough out wide to do so. The last two seasons, we have tried to implement a more open, pass heavy attack and both times, eventually transitioned back to what has been our calling card the past half decade - 11 and 12 personnel and running the football. Setting up the pass by leaning on folks and running the ball. We looked unprepared and frankly out coached. In every phase. Which is uncharacteristic of Coach Bramlett, he typically prides himself on the little things and being detailed. I do believe our kids came in a little confident thinking they could ride high because of how we beat Meridian last year and the Ocean Springs "name". Meridian came out and hit us hard in the mouth and we quite frankly folded. Hats off to them and Coach Vance. They were ready physically and mentally, where we were not. Yes we are young, and inexperienced but we were two years ago as well and we did not look this bad at any point. I am sure coach is going to regroup and rally the troops and correct some things. This team is talented enough to finish 2nd in the region, but the way we looked last night, we will not win a region game. Again, big congratulations to Tony Vance and Meridian. He catches a lot of lack for how he behaves on the sidelines at time, but he knows how to win and get kids to play hard for him.

Picayune does this every year. We don't need an applause. Picayune just needs to get to work.

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.

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

Northeast Jones will not score 21 against South Jones. SJ will be ok on defense but NEJ is bad all over. I havnt seen their schedule but would not be surprised if they go winless. They may also win 3 or 4. But they are bad. WJ should beat Laurel by 3 scores. Laurel does not have the athletes they usually do. Most of those kids look 180 lbs if wet. They are in for bad times this year.

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.

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

I believe thats why some of the schools last week were put on probation. Same thing happened last season with some schools. Just a slap on the wrist telling teams dont do anything again that could possibly get you in more trouble.

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.

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.