longhorn75

Agreed. All their success came from seasoned MAIS coaches. Maybe they can go hire a young coach, like Land from Lamar or another MAIS vet. To give Pogue credit, he was a good coach for JA. As head coach, he got them to the championship game his first season. I think but for the big Raider upheaval, he would still have had that team playing competitively.

Where did Blackwell go? Back to Alabama? honestly the past several years have been very weird for what we were accustomed to from JA. They’ve gone through four football coaches in ten years. I get it’s part of the business, but the turnover there is insane from a school that never really switched coaches much before this . .

I do contend that this year's MRA team was very young at receiver, and aside from John White, they were decent at best. I think they have the coaching to get there. Just all about how talent with them, and more importantly around them, is. Hartfield, and JA have had to recruit heavy duty to supplant MRA's efforts there.

Joey Hawkins is a home run hire here. The man can win. I'm surprised he wasn't asked to coach track as well, considering his reputation as a track master.

I'll never understand why Long Beach got rid of Forrest Williams and moved him to administration. He had turned the corner by the end of it.

Yeah, Lamar is basically MRA lite. Lamar's head coach played for Davis in high school, and then was his OC one year. Lamar's defensive coordinator, is Davis's son. Lamar runs basically MRA's offense. Also, more kids in the Madison area. MRA would win that one big.

JA beat Bayou Academy 27-8. Bayou was in it the whole game, but could not capitalize on red zone trips at all.

Prayers sent. May the Almighty bestow his healing hand on Coach Davis. The several people I know that know him talk about how great of a man he is, and the impact that he has on young people's lives.

Yes I remember when MRA got hit with sanctions in 94, the baseball team was in the playoffs when the announcement came and they were ruled ineligible and had to forfeit. I am curious who the other 14 violations are, if they are.

Actually no. I can think of several private school kids that have been Dandy Dozen. Overstreet, Buchanan at Prep, and then Saahdiq Charles at MRA, I believe.

The odds of Hartfield getting this overturned are about as slim as Twiggy. I can't see any reason how they could spin the video evidence.

Possibly John White at MRA. He's been fabulous for academy ball.

The MAIS wants quality athletes from public schools. They just want to share the wealth. Looks like the St. Joe coach pled his case. Ironic though that St. Joe ratted em out, cause of the stories of them recruiting out there. Looks like it'll be Prep and MRA in Mississippi College this year.

I don't have an issue at all, with a coach getting his PERS years in, and then double-dipping. You cannot fault a coach for doing what's best for his family and himself. He gets full-retirement, and some spending cash on top of that,. Anyway, it's not like teachers get paid much at all, so you can't fault them for double dipping. We have actually had some retired public school coaches who have taken their school to the championship, Ricky Black, of course dominated at Prep, and Doug Goodwin has done the same in his legacy. Mangum took Wayne and Simpson to the State title game, but came up short both times. Look at the decline of St. Andrew's after David Bradberry stepped away from there. Regardless though, after you retire many people work to keep themselves active, and to find a pastime. Life after retirement can be very boring at times, and thus you can't fault a person to work a post-retirement career to supplement their incomes, and to keep themselves proficient.

Heritage hired Tobias Smith as their new head coach.

In the MAIS, it's not even close how good Jackson Prep's staff is. Most of those assistants have been there forever.

I am curious to see Prep and West Jones, and to see how well MRA can compete with Oak Grove. Oak Grove will likely win.

This explains a lot. Guessing he was standing on the sidelines?

Only place I can think of is either JA or Hartfield in the Metro. Hartfield did wonders with the kid they had last year. and JA was a sneaky good team.

Wow. so, they are going to be the punching bag of the metro 6A, I guess. Right I found it odd that the coach and his wife were all over twitter talking about this. Now, with Hartfield picking up that star player that St. Joe is upset that they picked up, I am not surprised. Hartfield is trying hard to get up to the higher echelon, especially with Prep making a huge resurgence once they got the right coach in Goodwin.

Ok what is up with all these transfers from Madison St. Joe? Heard a rumor the QB is gone, and then the Coach tweeted out that accusation...

Tim Wise leaving Jackson Prep, off of taking them to back-to-back overalls. He's a heck of a coach. Coached at Millsaps for 14 years, and resurrected a struggling Prep Boys program. Taking a job in Memphis area.

His name is Michael Brown, I think? He's from West Point, and coached in Alabama. Crazy the amount of coaches that have come to the MAIS from Alabama, especially the last few years. Goodwin at Prep, Carr, before at PCS, Blackwell at JA, etc.

Tyler Russell, beat South Panola Dylan Favre: those stats were insane. Also put St. Stanislaus football on the map. Myles Brennan Steve McNair Jason Campbell Cam Akers Favre was good, but I believe he ran the veer and didn't throw the ball much. Gardner Minshew

Hawkins used to get PCS consistently to the Semifinals of AAA Division I even before Woullard got there. Like four years in a row, his first season was I believe the only year that eh didnt make it to the semifinal game, before the new playoff system where everybody made the playoffs came in, (2015), I think. Before that, PCS never even made it to the playoffs in football. Coach Carr was a surprise hire, and I believe they wanted Caldwell first. Bringing up MRA, the biggest asset that school has is their location. Especially with the attrition of the quality of the Jackson area, we are seeing much more families leave Jackson, and moving close to Madison and Flowood, in-turn, more students at Prep, Hartfield, and MRA versus JA etc. While it is true that Hattiesburg is a great location, and should be good for football, the fact that they have so many football powerhouses in the area really hurt that. However, PCS has always been strong in girl's sports and especially the track and cross country.