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Prep has an open home date Oct 8 and is actively seeking an opponent. Could be a return game in 2022 or a one off.

Long Beach scored all of 63 points last season and went 1-9 - were competitive in a loss with their opponent in exactly one game - they're no doubt a dark horse.

Columbus Christian is advertising for AD & HFC ... and Wayne Academy's ad is back up.

Kelly Jimmerson

You gotta admit that was some good coaching right there

Ackerman 15-1 in 2009, lost in SC then 1-10 in 2010 then 10-4 in 2011 lost in 3rd round

Portugal has decriminalized ALL drugs and their violent crime rate has plummeted. Just a thought.

Probst was investigated, proof of ill-deeds provided, he was then put on leave, and will almost certainly be fired, because of the evidence provided. There have been few, to my knowledge, bona fide cases of recruiting by private schools in the history of MAIS. If you have PROOF of things like what Probst and the Valdosta TD Club were doing being done by MAIS schools, then I'd be glad to listen. Until you can do so, it's just hearsay and rumor. You're just parroting what you've heard others say unless you can provide proof that can be corroborated that such activities take place. Until MHSAA allowed interleague competition all that was ever said was that the academies couldn't compete with "real" football - the bump-n-giggle league and all that, but once competition began and the public schools discovered how good the upper echelon of the MAIS really is, then the recruiting cry-babies started the unfair-competition-because-the-private-schools-recruit refrain that hasn't stopped yet. Now if you'd like to start a thread about illegal activities that the MAIS schools participate in, please do so... it will be a very short-lived thread; otherwise, this thread is about Rush Probst and the proven illegal activities that have been taking place at Valdosta under his direction. I met him at a coaching clinic at Ole Miss once - can't say I thought too much of him. I'm used to a certain amount of testosterone and confidence amongst coaches that can get old pretty quick (like at the AFCA Clinics), but not the condescending arrogance that came out of that one... toward the Ole Miss coaching staff, no less.

This is going way back, but Pascagoula went 12-0 in 1947 and then 1-9 in 1948 with their one win coming by a single point. Are there other remarkable disasters or turnarounds that you know about?

No offense taken. I was just pointing out a bit of nonsense. Hillcrest doesn't recruit. Prep doesn't. Hartfield doesn't. JA just started, but that 2020 season was gifted by virtue of JPS' short-sightedness, so not sure that qualifies. Madison St Joe does not recruit. MRA has been rumored to do so, but there has never been any actual evidentiary proof of such activity.

Marianna Lee (Arkansas) has posted an ad on MAIS for head football coach. Wayne Academy's ad has been withdrawn but I haven't been able to find who they hired - anyone know?

There is no such thing as Jackson Private School System

I doubt anyone wants to be party to this: “The evidence is clear that this is not an isolated instance (of recruiting) and that Coach [Rush] Probst (sic) and members of the Valdosta Touchdown Club have on other occasions contacted other student-athletes or their families and provided gifts of money, payment of utilities and housing incentives in an attempt to persuade those student-athletes to transfer to Valdosta High School.”

Valdosta HS Coach Rush Probst is in the news: https://usatodayhss.com/2021/valdosta-high-school-football-postseason-ban-fine-rush-propst-jake-garcia

Brandon Thornhill is West Marion's "new" coach - he's been the DC there for the last 13 years

Enterprise is 3A

This one is pretty nice

This guy? https://www.wmcactionnews5.com/story/30514579/teachers-caught-fighting-on-school-grounds-in-mississippi/

Sacred Heart and St Andrew's are not in regions. Are they playing as independents?

Looks like Philadelphia but smaller

Warren Central's Carl Blue was a little before my time but I saw him play.

https://www.hubcityspokes.com/front-page-slideshow-sports-high-schools-lumberton-panthers-sports-lesser-sports-slideshow/zach

http://newsite.msais.org/postoffice/mailouts/memo_all_mais_basketball_teams_announced_girls_boys_2020_21_rev2.pdf

I was offered the job there after Adam Cook left & at that time they told me a new stadium was in the works... showed me where the field was already made back behind the baseball field - just needed funds for the stadium & that the Lincoln Co. School District had made a commitment to make it happen before the 2017 season started. Don't know what happened to nix it.

At the risk of sounding snarky, East Rankin has put together a schedule that might provide them with their third winning season this century.