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Hattiesburg got another transfer that just happened in last couple days

South Jackson.

West jones ends the season at Forrest hill, at terry, host Hattiesburg, at Jim hill.

I was bout to say. Don’t demote us to Northeast Jones 1 state title level. We grew up a bit. At least we aren’t at Hattiesburg peasant level. Continued well wishes for you bro.

We got 2.

I got a video for yall

Don’t think so. I know WJ will finish last of the 3 jones county schools. South jones field was ripped up down to dirt and they were starting to put in gravel the week school let out for the summer. NEJ was down to dirt that week and they had just started to tear up west. SJ opens at home week 1 vs nej. Nej hosts WJ week 2 for its first home game. WJ first home game week 4 I think, maybe week 3, vs SJ.

That was pc/ai rendered. It’s supposed to look basically exactly like poplarville with different center logo and words. Maybe a bit more gold along the sidelines

Oh my lawd I couldn’t resist that lil bit of smack

Still bout to get beat down by west jones.

Grenada did not amount to much before Michael Fair took over the program. They won’t amount to much once again now that he is gone. South panola with him at the helm will win at least 1 title in the next 4 years. I do not know what led for him to leave Grenada for South Panola as some had mentioned he may have turned them down before. Or maybe it was them not wanting him at that time. And I saw mention that there may have been a rift between him and the Grenada AD. Also apparently some in SP are happy to see their prior coach leave and are not surprised by what is going on in Grenada.

D’Iberville lost the 08 champ game to noxubee county.

I forgot George county was region 3. They would drop to region 4 before Hattiesburg.

For them to drop, 2 times have to go to 7A. Most likely would be 2 of either south panola, Warren central, Hancock or Grenada. Which if it plays out would send meridian and pearl to north state most likely. If Hancock moves up then Hattiesburg moves back to region 4 and that opens slot for most likely pearl to be in region 3.

They sure talked a lot of noise till bout week 3 last year.

I am pretty positive yall had at least 1 lineman in those years. I know one was committed to Usm but the signed elsewhere.

May need to schedule a bad 2A school.

West Jones won 2 with a bunch of juco kids on the rosters. 1 kid in the ‘20 team went straight d1 (Usm) after his high school career was over.

Yes. However a decent portion of the athletes are actually not originally from Laurel. And a number of them as well as done from within Laurel now are trying to get out.

Yep. They have had some internal struggles themselves going back Todd Breland leaving (there are reasons why he left and went to South jones) that have gotten “fiesty” the last few years. Some of it relating to their own recruiting efforts. Some volunteer coaches that think they better than paid coaches (the phrase “too many chiefs not enough Indians” is a good description). They lost 3 long time assistants including the guy doing most of the recruiting and the head coach was said to have interviewed for several other head coach openings, so obviously he may also see the writing on the wall. At least half the returning starters are wanting to transfer to other schools and this comes direct from one of them. But still their district do bad the can get into the playoffs with 2 wins and then who knows.

Yeah laurels collapse will need its own thread. The last 3 years was only the beginning. The weakness of 5A south as a whole has “helped” mask the reality of the situation as they only have to win 2 district games then 2 playoff games to make it look like they are ok. But they really aren’t. If not for the creation of 7A and the resulting split off of Hattiesburg, west jones, picayune. Etc etc into 6A Laurel would have had at most 3 wins and no playoff trips since 2022. Keep in mind since ‘22 they made a run to state in ‘23 and south state last year.

Funny thing here is there have been a couple from Laurel playing for Hattiesburg the last few years. If anyone wants to actually win a title then Laurel under current leadership is not going to get it done.

Yes, but at the same time, no. Now that college recruits get NIL the colleges are offering more money to kids that stand out in larger classifications, on average. There are kids being told directly that they can get 50k a year as is but if they go up a couple school classes and perform the same they can get 75k. That drives a lot of the transfers. There are pending lawsuits in several states now where school athletics governing bodies denied transfers from kids we were told this. Then lawsuits were filed arguing that former coach/school and state athletics body had impeded the kids right to future income. This involves federal income laws. This is precisely why some states are allowing high school nil and school choice laws to pass. MS is too far behind. Or too many people in state legislature and/or the MHSAA are trying to find a plan to have it pass so that they themselves profit off of it first. I’m waiting ti see when the first lawsuit hits and what dominoes fall after that.