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They missed great opportunity to make the endzone black and white checkerboard pattern. i hope when west jones gets theirs it’s green.

Brady was pressured to leave and it started before last season. There’s reasons why he was said to be at west jones so much before Pierson retired there and it was strongly thought Brady would be the hire once Pierson did retire. Hell I was hoping he would be who west went with. Speaking of Pierson. Who do you think Bay Springs learned the spread from? You say nap springs won’t be predictable. I’m telling you you are wrong.

West Jones offense is stacked. And will have only 3 or 4 seniors (a wr maybe 2 depending on how it shakes out, one of the rb’s, and 1 or 2 o line) leave after this coming year. The defense however will have 10 new starters (with 3 or less seniors likely). So if anyone in 6A wants to beat them, better do it this year.

Every game at USM every time it’s been there has had better attendance than the same classification games the times it’s been played at ole Miss or MSU. Higher percentage of the states population less than 1 and a half hours from Hattiesburg therefore easier access to the games for more casual fans. Plus, just being honest, outside of like 5 schools north of I-20 most of the southern teams have better attendance.

Nope. They never intended to go back to Jackson at all after they started the ole miss/msu rotation. USM was added in 2018 and they got it again in 2019 because both msu and ole miss had hosted a couple times. 2020 it was in Jackson due to something involving covid. Ended up back at USM I believe was a scheduling conflict with ole miss and msu and then was supposed to start a rotation of the 3. Going back to Jackson isn’t supposed to happen it’s just a fallback if there’s issues with the 3 universities.

You'll still be able to get the best steak in Mississippi in Learned, though. I need to know about this steak.

Once Hankins leaves, may not be many as long as Hathorn still principle.

If it happened the MAIS schools woul be like Greenville Christian was a few years back. And several public school powerhouses would crumble like a stale cookie. All the good players that stayed in public schools but move to those paying more would shift to the 3 coastal counties, Lamar County not including lumberton, petal, jones county (specifically west and south), rankin county, Madison county, desoto county. All others would suddenly fall way back. We would also likely see a string of new private schools or some that do not play football suddenly starting up.

Actually I think you are confusing the 2 Holmes brothers. It’s Caleb’s brother Keegan that is on defense.

Wj has 13 kids at o line positions that can rotate over 250 lbs each. 8 are over 280. And 8 6’2 or taller.

West Jones will be flipping their script from last year. They won’t be carried by the defense. They lost 10 starters there. Will be a work in progress. Teams will score some on them, but they may only need to be half as good as last year. On offense they lost 2 regular starters on the line and 1 other that was in and out. The offense is stacked.

Most likely going to be more of the same at nej.

I thought the same thing at first. But looking at Super Bowl rings that seems to be a trend with them as well over the last 10-12 years. I for sure like these better than WJ’s first ring that just never set well with me.

Anyone got pictures of their newest champ rings?

But most can fill them a couple times a year or at least every other year for a game. Petal has filled theirs like 3 times since it was built. They built it so big to compensate for their small pee-pee syndrome they have in regards to oak grove having the most unique stadium in the state at the time and having basically perfect capacity (6,00-7,000 seems to be a sweet spot) and petal couldn’t stand it. They know they can’t and will not ever consistently compete with OG in anything other than their ability to inflate their own sense of self importance. But hey, they got a bigger stadium.

Petal is at the top or maybe top 5 due to facilities and pay. But they are not top 10 for support, nor talent. Especially talent. Where it’s very evident they can’t win big consistently. Coaches go there for money. Not if they want titles.

Don’t you all know Petal is tops of this state and the next.

By returning most of the team you mean they return most of the numbers on the roster. But I believe they lost 3-4 on o line, 3 on d line, lb, 2 wr and the qb. Granted they have a 2 deep of o and d linemen that are over 260. And I heard they will be starting a 9th grade qb next year.

look up Rudy and Jay B on Facebook. They have recorded streams of all of laurels games from last year. Listen to the comments and read the chat window. They went on a massive rant halftime of the stone county game I think it was. And their opinion was echoed by many. There have been a lot of Laurel fans unhappy with how things have gone the last 5-6 years. The only thing that calmed them was the run to state last year. But let’s be honest. Had last year’s 5A also included the teams that are now in 6A laurel would have at best been 5-5 4th seed playing at picayune round 1 of playoffs. They may have missed playoffs entirely. That would have caused an implosion over there. They are teetering on the edge of falling off like Wayne county has.

Laurel, JDC, pass Christian, and hattiesburg not top10 teams. Ocean springs questionable top 10 as well. Not sold on Tupelo either. Louisville is top 3-4. West jones 4-6. Poplarville just behind west jones. Brandon, oak grove, Starkville, south pAnola, West Point should all be in top 10.

Laurel faces no real threat in 5A south unless Brookhaven or Wayne county pulls their heads out of their butt. Or some random team like Florence suddenly has a dream season. Right now I would have more faith in Brookhaven being the one to knock them off. Having said that, Laurel lost a good deal from last year and maybe even will not be as good as last year. 5A south just really sucks.

Definitely not any type of Wayne county schedule like they have had since early 2000’s. Looks like someone trying to pad the win column to get fans off his back. Friggin Morton?? Why not schedule northeast jones for crying out loud. At least there would possibly be more fans.

Have heard through grapevine that between west jones elementary and west jones high close to 20 kids from taylorsville had enrolled since Christmas break. And there are a few teachers with kids at taylorsville that have applied for teaching jobs in jones county school district.

Based on recruiting rankings of the kids on the team at the time, yes. Hattiesburg defense that year wasn’t as good as west ‘23. But yall had 2-3 individuals on defense that year more talented than almost every individual that west had on defense in ‘23. West just played together very well and better coached honestly. On offense y’all’s qb was at his peak. West qb is a sophomore so who knows how good he will end up being. Now I do think y’all’s 2018 was better that wests 2018 team that knocked yall out. Sometimes the best team doesn’t win. See west jones 2010 season and choke job vs Brookhaven at south state for an example. Or picayune 2012 for another. Or Wayne county 2008.

The point I was making with the first part of the post was that I understand your feeling frustrated for the last 3 seasons. Thinking you would compete for state then not doing so. Wj fans felt that way from 2002 till 2020. We were 110% convinced we would get one within 3-5 years after 02 season. Obviously did not happen. also after 2010 I lost all faith that our coach could win state. I assure you that I was not the only Wj fan thinking such. This is drawing a parallel to a bunch of people I know, plus myself, who doesn’t think Vance can win state in Hattiesburg. My personal reasoning is Wj never has never had a team with as much talent as Hattiesburg had in 2018. And I have never seen a team that loaded not win it. That, plus playoff performances since, are the reason for this assumption. but maybe he pulls it off eventually.