Rebel Bert

My research says both Murrah and Meridian may drop to 6A and South Panola goes to 7A. The numbers will be within 10 students so who knows. There will be a trickle down from each class if no ties exist. Then North Tippah goes to 2A and 2 schools may drop to 1A. Faulkner and Walnut are consolidating last i heard beginning fall of 27.

I can understand where in large cities like Jackson or 5A to 7A schools should separate the two jobs. In the smaller schools just not enough money unless the AD is responsible for the district schools whether unit be 1, 2, or 5 schools.

I don't think it will ever go back to Jackson unless it's at Brandon or Madison Central for example.

I will look at some numbers later.

That too! Well prepared and well coached. They did beat Kemper County.

Murrah or Meridian will likely drop to 6A throwing Hattiesburg to Region 4. Greenville or Long Beach to 5A. Sumrall to 4A. This all hinges on no ties or 25 teams in a class. Forrest Hill or Meridian will replace Greenville and Hattiesburg will replace Long Beach.

If Meridian drops they or Terry may move to Region 3 or 2.

Moms at Heidelberg were mad is all I can say with pictures. I can see that players were not focused on the game maybe.

My understanding is 7A, 5A, and 2A dressed in a tent. Obviously someone on the Heidelberg team took a picture of unorganized chairs against the wall with clothes everywhere. I am guessing that neither locker room at State is equipped where it can be divided into two parts for small teams in numbers are playing Neither do I know how things have been done at other stadiums. It looked like Heidelberg was totally disorganized under the tent. MSU having hosted before would have known how to set this up. Maybe this was designed by MHSAA.

Good school to start out coaching. Usually top 2 in Region.

Warrior in battle. Look at their logo. He has steel breastfed plate Lilith sword and round plate in hand to ward off your weapon.

Heidelberg parents were not happy that their boys had to dress in a makeshift tent with nothing but chairs. I think the boys from the 2 night games on Thursday and Friday had to this also. Apparently not but two locker rooms at the stadium. Might not be unusual or normal at USM. As long as security was standing pat I don't see the fuss.

Sometimes parents move and that is reason enough to transfer.

I here he has been offered jobs but turned them down.

No that wasn't me. It was someone else posting that. I went back and looked at #'s for 2023-24 posted on MDE. I knew this person had to be talking about Meridian. You can't rule out the bottom five of 7A in the last reclassification as a possibility of dropping.

Owens might be going to state now that Lebby and Arnett have hired Raleigh native and defensive backs coach Kevie Thompson. Thompson has been a long time asst in the high school and juco ranks in Mississippi. He has produced some of the best defenses in Mississippi. He also coached under Tony Hughes. Lebby will address the hiring this weak. Purely a move to improve the defense and recruiting vs Moncrief being at Ole Miss.

I totally agree. Now that we have the 2-2-3 format for the football championships I will not be surprised if they try some day for 8 classes.

Looking at future reclassification i can do what I did last time. I will have to go with the numbers for 7th thru 9th grade as a guess for 23-24 school year. They have not posted the 24-25 or 25-26 numbers with the new system. Its there somewhere. What i will do is: Last groupings For 7A: Take bottom 6 of 7A top 5 of 6A For 6A: Take bottom 5 of 6A top 5 of 5A For 5A: Take bottom 5 of 5A top 8 of 4A For 4A: Take bottom 10 of 4A top 10 of 3A For 3A: Take bottom 10 of 3A top 10 of 2A For 2A: Take bottom 10 of 2A top 10 of 1A For 1A: Take bottom 10 of 2A **North Tippah is consolidating ** Leflore County is consolidating with new school at some point. May get to it at some point. All others will likely remain in their class currently.

I thought my research says Tville is 8-5. I may be wrong.

Undecided

I don't see any changes for a number of years. There is just not enough schools to go beyond 7 classes. Changing the split could happen someday.

Region 8 meeting on the coast tonight. Region 7 meeting in Wesson on Wednesday. We will see if anything passed as regard to reclassification, etc.

Once u get on 25 at Lena, Carthage, or Louisville its not that bad. 13 north of Morton is like I-20 east of Jackson. They will soon as the clearing is finished between Pelahatchie and Brandon they will begin removing I-20 and a complete rebuild. So if your traveling from Meridian to Jackson I would suggest to take an alternate route.

Oak Grove is #6 in enrollment in 2024. They would have to loose 125 to 150 students per class. Yes I can see some people moving away from West Hattiesburg but I don't see that big of drop coming in 2026.

That's what is being reported on another page. I don’t see it right now.