maroontide06

Welcome to the age of rewarding piss poor performance on the grid iron with a playoff berth. Because frankly that’s what we are going to have now.

PRC must be in high cotton. They’ll never miss the playoffs again LOL!

Merry Christmas everyone. I hope y’all have a good one and stay warm. We’re going to have a cold one, so let the water run.

Was Ole Miss intentionally mediocre on signing day? It seems like they were that way for a reason. Is Lane just a portal guy or something? Because if that’s the case I can understand why they didn’t put much emphasis on signing day.

State had a solid day today on signing day. I'm glad things went well with everything that has gone on.

Ok good deal. I feel like Major Payne with an itch and nothing to scratch LOL!

Here's my take on it. If it's not too late Picayune needs to get with Brandon if it's a home and home series and get the game against Brandon moved to a home game this coming year (2023) and then get the game in 2024 moved to Brandon. It's probably too late for that kind of wishful thinking, but having to play Brandon, D'Iberville, and Gulfport all on the road isn't exactly a Japanese Wagyu A5 either.

I feel like bumping this thread up because well things are quite boring again. Does anyone have any thoughts or concerns about next season? My main concern is the lack of home games we will have. I have no idea who came up with Picayune's schedule for next year, but hopefully we can get a home game for week 2. If not, we'll only have 4 home games. I know that it will probably reverse in 2024, but there needs to be some more balance in regards to that. The season will be nearly a month old before Picayune has it's first home game.

If this school was out in the middle of nowhere where you have to pump daylight in, they might could justify closing it but my goodness this town is right on the Interstate. Scary times we are living in for sure.

Do you think we will emphasize running the football more next year or do you think they will try to keep the Leach playsheet intact?

Hopefully the MHSAA will see the error in their ways one day and bring us back down to 6 classifications, but unfortunately it's all about the almighty dollar for them so that won't be happening any time soon.

Well Carroll is pretty big (land wise not population wise). It's one of the few counties in Mississippi with two county seats, but that's just an example of something similar that has happened in the past.

It's got to be a similar situation when Carroll County shut down Vaiden High School and the kids that went there had to start going to JZ George in North Carrollton. It'll probably make for some long driving to get to school.

I'm not that familiar with North Mississippi, but this town is just South of Memphis and right on I-55. Shouldn't this be a thriving suburb of Memphis? For this school to close makes absolutely no sense. Heck their football stadium even has a nice track around it. Why does Mississippi need more blight? Don't we already have enough?

Go look at the first page of this thread and the 6th post. I mentioned the State of Alabama, but who knows where Ocean Springs will go?

I could be 100% wrong on this, but it seems like the Air Raid works 500 times better when there’s an effective and established running game. You certainly don’t have to run the football a majority of the time either and by doing that you avoid getting vanilla on offense.

The main concern for improvement would be how to get something positive out of a play when the pocket breaks down. The QB should be aware most of the time when this happens so it requires quick decision making. Chances are there’s probably a running lane somewhere to get some positive yardage instead of throwing an incompletion or taking a sack which could have been avoided.

It almost sounds like you’ll need to make a couple of hires on the offensive side unless the future OC also doubles as QB Coach as well. I don’t think they’ll completely abandon the air raid, but hopefully we can have more of a running threat with the QB position.

I saw you started a thread on the Genes Page vip football board about Kiffin vs. Arnett Social Media. Well Kiffin wins there in a landslide because Arnett hasn't posted anything on his Twitter account since 2020. I think he's a no frills kind of guy that can do without social media. He's old school to the core and for some reason I kind of like that.

Interesting. Where did their coach go?

Whoa, I thought for a second you were talking about Picayune, but then I saw the vibrant and growing part.

So who exactly are you thinking about that's on our current staff?

Whatever the goal is for Ocean Springs, the path to get to the 7A title game seems like it will be easier for a coach to be in 7A South versus being in 7A North. I could be completely wrong here, but whoever comes out of 7A North won't go into the title game as an underdog.

Completely understood there.

@David read my post above and see if that answers any questions or gives you any more questions.