Merlin

You’re very good at deflecting. No way anyone as close to a program as you are to HHS, has no idea about what’s going on.

Pack was supposed to be at Hattiesburg. You don’t remember Steve McNair Jr? There was a kid from Columbia 2-3 years ago. They got a number from Bassfield a few years ago before they merged with prentis. Oh, right, as I said in prior post. Everyone else keeps a lid on recruiting and takes a couple kids a year at most. They dont recruit half a starting lineup and make lots of noise about it like Hattiesburg is doing.

All of them were expected to be big contributors for their school this season. Let’s be upfront here. Since oak grove became something other than a doormat in 2002 and they recruited Gary Pack, it’s been no secret that oak grove was getting 3-4 kids a year pretty much every year. They built that program on transfers. They didn’t seem to lay off till just a few years ago as their program finally became mostly self sustainable. But they are and have been targeting a small number a year. Petal had that whole pipeline from poplarville thing a few years back. And for the last 2 years i know of they have gotten a small handful of kids a year. One would have been big contributor at south jones. So yes, others do it and Hattiesburg certainly was not the first. BUT! No one related to those programs openly says a word. It’s an unspoken truth. Hattiesburg, on the other has kids and even some fans (and reportedly an assistant coach but I havnt seen that evidence yet, I was just told about it) who openly brag about it. They making aI generated poster looking announcements for it like the kid just signed a big NIL deal to go to LSU. So not only are you openly going after almost double the number of kids a year than the other schools around you, but you rub it in their faces. IF the stuff posted in those text groups were screenshot and went public on that Facebook highschool group I bet it would cause pandemonium for the MHSAA. They know it happens. They know of the existence of said text groups. But they do not want it to go that widespread. Not before they modify some rules or have the state legislature pass some to force their hand.

Wherever he was from. Doesn’t matter. Would I be happy if west got 3-4 transfers in offseason to help. Sure. There were “rumors” of up to 6 that nothing ever happened. 1 other that did. But what you guys are doing is on an entirely different scale. At this point the MHSAA needs to apply that 1.5 multiplier to you guys and send you to 7A.

We had one kid transfer in 2010 that started in defense who was a star at former school. Was just a good lb at WJ. In 2020 a wr transferred from mt olive his 10th grade year. He was really good, 3star wr by senior season that did not play senior year due to acl tear in summer before senior year. He eventually went to Usm did not ever play I don’t think. We had one transfer before last season that there was a lot of shenanigans that led to him playing 3 games at Wayne academy, he will be playing this year. And then we had the kid from oak grove this past spring. So at most on a season roster we have 2 that were not originally at WJ. Sure there were rumors of another rb and a wr before the end of last season. There was rumors of 2 different qb’s (one lives in jones county but he attends private school). And a d lineman from bay springs was rumored. There were unconfirmed rumors of another kid from oak grove. There are always rumors of “oh my gosh this 9th grade phenomenon that’s already 4 star is transferring”. But the fact remains that no more than 1 a year and several years apart from each other, has actually happened at WJ. That’s not the case with Hattiesburg. Hattiesburg isn’t growing like petal or oak grove, nor even sumrall. But you guys are openly bragging about pulling kids in from other schools like you have no fear that anyone will stop it. How many was it last year? Three? Four? At least that qb that moved from like Minnesota to Georgia then to Hattiesburg in less than a year is still on the roster. And now you guys are adding all these other kids for this season? It’s far too obvious what’s going on. If school choice had of passed this last spring I can assure you Laurel would have lost 8 to 10 kids to WJ in a hurry. WJ could have taken a few of them anyway as they live in one of the few areas where kids can choose between the schools. Some of them were recruited to Laurel from WJ to begin with by former line coach at Laurel that left. But WJ had over 130 come out for varsity football in the spring. And coaches won’t throw any off the team to make room for others even if some would never see the field. So a bunch of kids wanting to move were told to stay put. Heck there are about as many from NEJ that want out as well and some could go to South jones easily and some to west. There are a bunch of kids that do not want to be at Laurel or nej right now (this ties in to the things I know about that’s been going on at Laurel for a few years now and is partly responsible for their recent poor seasons and could be tip of the iceberg).

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Hattiesburg coaches this past spring

Wr from fcahs. Rb/db from fcahs, d lineman from Perry county, safety from Brandon (by hiring his dad as baseball coach). That’s what I recall off my head right now.

Maybe you cans can finally recruit your way to one of these.

2 kids were said to be possibly transferring vott. 2. And it was said before the season even ended last year. And Trey were not recruited, there were issues at prior school and a parent wanted to get them away from it. And for the record, they did not transfer (one will never play again). There was 1 other kid that can play wr from oak grove who did transfer during christmas break. You guys got like 5 this offseason alone. 2 from one school. And brag about recruiting them.

Dobt know when it was done. Assuming the kid just got clearance cause they started bragging about it in the group the kids use to talk to each other. It can be inferred from the post they are openly bragging about it as well. They are rubbing it in everyone’s faces.

Oh you can bet it.

I guess Hattiesburg believed in their talent level so much they decided to go the Tupelo route of recruiting. And bragging about it.

Hattiesburg now has recruited a sophmore rb from fcahs. Easnt there a rule about them having to be enrolled and practicing by a certain date?

5A south would invite you to take a look. Particularly Laurel.