Merlin

A couple years ago there was a 300 student homeschooling program ran out of a church in jones county. several churches off the top of my head run similar programs now. Laurel Christian School is busting at the seams and almost can’t take any more kid, and a few families don’t want to pay the tuition so the kids go to homeschool church group then get ged.

Their family moved to the Sharon community in north jones county. I played basketball with his younger brother Phillip in elementary school.

My thought as well. Especially if the initial list of interested parties is true. Makes you curious if the fell through due to some terms that were offered. Such as, keeping the mast guys staff.

He didnt want to be a qb last year. They had done a lot of work with the backup to try to see if he could take over but that didn’t pan out. I’m hearing the upcoming jr high qb may be more in the style that Pierson likes and has arm. There’s also chatter of a kid that lives in the district but attends a private school transferring in over the summer.

link me where that figure is in print. Cause I was told outright that he might touch 90 with booster club but the base salary was 65. While nej base was 75. And he was outright going to take the nej job and but was offered. Heidelberg didn’t honor something on his contract after the game in Tennessee that he almost resigned that week. There’s reason why he’s looking to leave.

That’s not entirely true. Nej salary is 10k higher than Heidelberg. Now the booster club can throw in some extra stipends and that may give Heidelberg the lead but have a hard time imagining their booster club raises more than nej.

He won basketball in 93 at nej but couldn’t get past south state in fb. They didn’t win football till a year or two after he graduated. He did want and reportedly was offered the football job. But Hathorn when he was at nej, and a few other cronies, had basically set up a succession for their next 2 coaches. The principle wasn’t in on that and supposedly offered it to Carter which caused a storm. There was a shouting match on the school parking lot between various parties and Hathorn supposedly showed up up to share his piece. Then was informed by the jones county sup to “get your fat a$$ off this campus and do not show up again or get hit with trespassing charges”.

Lyndsey at WJ may not be qb next year.

Hathorn does nothing with class. Not even in his time at northeast jones as he slowly destroyed the winning culture they had there for 15-20 years. Even after he quit coaching and became principle he still had a lot of say in the team. He was still interfering with them after being at Wayne county.

Is that the new one or old one that has been forgotten about?

It appears the school board going to just not renew contracts after the school year. So maybe they are going to hire the replacement before the contracts are done.

I was reading a few months back about how there are at least 3, at that time, with a handful of other potential, lawsuits being filed by families against theirs states high school sports governing bodies for ruling kids ineligible when the kids/families did the proper stuff to facilitate transfer to another school, and also against coaches/school officials from the prior school that issued the complaint to stop the transfer. I believe it was Texas, Ohio, Oklahoma, Louisiana and Florida were the states either the cases. In each the complaints were the kids had collegiate NIL offers that the amount the kids would get from their nil could increase if the kids moved to larger classification or more competitive schools. The arguments were made that by not allowing the kids with nil offers as such to transfer them the old school officials and the sport governing bodies were in effect interfering with potential employment income of the kid. Which violates several labor and wage laws. These filings caused several states to pass laws allowing high school NIL and new transfer rules. Alabama passed a law to allow kids to transfer out of the district they live in as long as the kids can have consistent transport to the new school. Then the Alabama high school sports ruled 2 brothers ineligible and promote the state governor to file suit against on behalf of the brothers, accusing the ahsaa of violating state law. This is also the very reason why the Mississippi legislature is looking into passing a school choice law this spring. In hopes of preventing a bunch of schools (public money funded) from getting sued by kids who transfer and the former school contesting it. This will stop entities funded by public funds from getting sued, but not the high school sports governing bodies, who can pick and choose its rules to enforce Willy-nilly based on friends of friends of council members or what not and none of their own bylaws have any basis in actual law. They would face the brunt of the lawsuits alone. The Tupelo qb that was ruled ineligible got a court injunction allowing him to play at Tupelo starting end of regular season or playoffs year before last. Hattiesburg had a girls basketball player that was from poplarville get an injunction a few years back allowing her to play. Actually every case that got to civil courtroom where kids were ruled ineligible, the mhsaa lost. Because their rules have no basis in law and they can’t prove their claims as such. in the case of the kid from stringer to west jones. His mom was incarcerated. He lived with grandmother in stringer. His siblings lived in jones county with relatives and attend west jones. When his mom was released and regained custody she lives in a community that feeds WJ. The kid transferred. Was ruled eligible. Then stringer coach got panties in a wad, contested, kid ruled ineligible. WJ countered kid ruled eligible. Stringer countered again ruled ineligible. Lawyers were hired but the case never got to court as it wouldn’t be heard before end of season so was sent to adjudicator and mhsaa decision stood. Kid went to Wayne academy. Then after stringer and Wayne academy played the kid posted his highlites from game on hudl and it apparently started contrast talk between him and kids from stringer. Stringer coach went to the dean at WA with screenshots and the dean kicked the kid out of school. why does this matter? The kid has NIL offer from MSU, amongst others. And if they remove or lower it due to his missed season who do you think gets hit with that lawsuit? Especially when the family has 2 recorded calls with someone from prior school telling him that he was warned before transfer he wouldn’t play a down?

Late Merry Christmas from Laurel, per my zip code in my earlier years, now Ellisville. Yes,, I must make it clear that I did not originate from ellisville.

I don’t think they have a Sup. The old one resigned a month or two back and they have an interim till the board votes in a full time replacement. I do not know the status of interim sup as far as stance in any of this or if he’s a placeholder with no ability.

Apparently the school board voted or had meeting to release Hankins. Looks like maybe a “resign or be fired” type deal. Looks better on the coaches to resign vs having potential questions as to what hey were fired lingering for future job prospects. The principle, Hathorn, angrily busted into the meeting and took the coach to find a lawyer. Then at some point a few days later while the school board meeting to accept resignation the principle and coach hit the school board with potential lawsuit and the coach withdrew his resignation. The principle also in committee at the MHSAA and apparently threatening to use that influence to do something to Wayne county athletics. That’s what I’m piecing together from what I’m seeing online. In my opinion his actions warrant firing for insubordination and they should nail his butt to the wall over it. I don’t know how contracts work in WC, but my daughter and wife are year to year. I u detests d most school teachers and employees are. They have to sign new contract every spring for the next year if offered or they jobless once school out for summer. I would assume coaches are the same way. If so, the board can just refuse to renew the coaches contract in summer and there’s nothing he can do. The issue is that then they will have to find a coach in the summer and they won’t have much time with the kids before the upcoming season. I am curious if the principle is also year to year and if they could let his contract expire the same way. .

Ya’lls school board needs to terminate Hathorn as soon as possible. I’m pretty sure insubordination is possible if the social media posts are correct in their describing what he supposedly did. Or is the school board split on the whole matter?

Are there enough votes on the board to fire bubba?

So. Apparently Hankins is back in the saddle?

Depends on if he has to teach classes or how many.

I’m curious if Gulfport breaking the mold of coast football at the highest classification in the state this year may have a ripple effect into biloxi and administration start to help facilitate a change in how they perceive football. Seeing a rival do well sometimes has that effect.

Someone has to go up to 7A if meridian drops right?

Most of the staff, except for the OC and the TE/assistant o-line coach, were from Pierson’s prior tenure. The OC had also been on person’s staff at a different time before going to petal. Reynolds kept them. So I imagine most all will stick around.

There’s a 3rd Morgan brother. The OC at Warren central.

Officials erased 2 or 3 WJ td’s on consecutive plays vs George in 02 or they beat y’all. And if Wayne was in 5A in 03 the west jones waltzes through 4A. The state championship that year was WJ at wc for south state.

Wayne county beat them in 02, and returned 17 starters in 03. They were preseason number 1 in the state in all publications and nationally ranked number 16, and remained that way till week 9. And if not for injuries in college they also had 4 guys who would have likely been in the NFL (one who eventually did). 4 star RB Mike McLaughlin who injuries at auburn caused early end to career. 4 star lb Steve gandy who also had multiple injuries that ended his career. Eventual 5 star and number 2 recruit in country Jarrell powe who went to the nfl after ole miss. And a d end that was 3 or 4 star that due to grades went juco first and I think he flunked out there. Oh, also Drexker johnson who held the state record in td passes at one point that had to go Juco and then bad life choices sent him to jail.