Prince of Darkness

Y'all are living rent free!!!!

With only 5-6 teams in each Division, only 3 teams should make the playoffs. Give the 1 seed an off week, and let the 2s & 3s play in the 1st round. Most of the 4 seeds I saw scores for got blasted.

No.....Cecil Hicks is the DC at West Jones

Clarkdale High School has a job vacancy for a Head Football Coach. Applicants must have a valid Mississippi teaching license and a CDL. Send resumes to Scott Gibson, AD/Assistant Principal, sgibson@lauderdale.k12.ms.us or Stephanie Shirley, Principal, at sshirley@lauderdale.k12.ms.us. Resumes should be submitted by November 24th, 2023.

Huge game!!! Winner gets to stay away from WJ or H'burg!! Loser gets to make a road trip that will likely end their season in the 1st round!! Leaning towards GC, but War Memorial in Goula can be a tough place to play.

Benton Academy, located in Benton, MS, is taking applications for the following positions for the upcoming school year: Head Football Coach/Classroom Teacher for 2024- 2025 school year. Head Football Coach Contact Mike Beagle at 662-673-9722 Email Address: bentonac@bentonacademy.org Web Site: www.bentonacademy.org

I coached for a long time at small schools and a big schools. I strongly believe that JH football should be about teaching fundamentals and not so much about scheme. You should try to be in lockstep with the HS program with scheme, but fundamentals take precedence in JH. In a small school the JH Football period is usually during the school day and is about 45 min to an hour long. Most of the time it was just me and one other guy. Now during that time you have to get them dressed, practice, undressed, and back to class. This cuts your actual practice time down to around 30 minutes. Some may say practice before or after school. Problems with that are: 1. Most kids, at the schools I worked at, rode the bus to school. Therefore, making before school practice not possible. 2. I was a varsity assistant as well & had varsity practice after school. Because of these factors, I was on the field during most JH games & we did not incorporate special teams. When I was at larger schools, we had a separate JH staff of 5 to 6 guys that all they did was coach JH football. They practiced after school for at least 90 minutes. Coaches were on the sidelines during games & special teams were incorporated. As to your point on the clock, I agree totally. Nothing worse than driving somewhere to play and have four 8 min running quarters. I was always in favor of four 8 minute regulation quarters for 8th Grade & and four 7 minute regulation quarters for 7th grade. I will finish my diatribe with this. I would caution painting coaches "lazy" with such a broad brush without knowing the inner workings of the day-to-day and personnel at the school in question.

I think pregame should be Chunky v. Enterprise Fan in a best 2 out of 3 falls, no disqualification match. With Rebel Bert as the guest referee.

You are correct about the rule. Also, Coast is correct as well. They must go through the 14 day acclimatization period.

The rule in the MHSAA Handbook states that a player may not play the same sport for two different "Member Schools" in the same year. Lipscomb Academy is not a "Member School". Both will likely have to sit 14 days to meet the "Acclimatization Rule" requirement. But, I'm real glad that I'm not in James Ray's shoes. There's a lot of variables and factors that play into this moving forward.

DB from GC is going to TN to join Knight also

He grew up in GC. He is Ty Fryfogle's younger brother.

A Dark Horse is anyone besides Picayune in 6A South that may compete. That's a big MAY!!!! Heck ain't nobody got a shot in 6A South but that Maroon Tide!!

These guys are not "abusing" the system. They've put in their time (25 years or more) and have chosen to begin drawing their PERS, which is by the letter of the law. Your issue should be with the MAIS schools that hire them, not the coaches themselves. It would be no different if they chose to retire and go to another state and coach, or go into the private sector and get a "normal" job. PERS retirees working in the MAIS is not a new phenomenon. It's been going on for years!!

Chunky is wise beyond his years!!

Have heard the same.

Presbyterian Christian is Hattiesburg is open again. Article on wdam.com

Heard he's going to Simpson to be an Assistant for Mangum

Heard Fair as well

I will say that the Raider Network broadcast is far superior to anything that the MHSAA has ever put out.

I can promise you that the MHSAA doesn't give 2 cents about "pressure" by fans on a message board.

All this info used to come out the Friday morning of the football state championships. Be happy that its being released in early November

Since Al Jones retired after the 2010 season: 2011 - Steve Jones (1 season) = 4 - 7 = No playoff appearances 2012 - 2015 - John Douglass (4 seasons) = 15 - 29 = No playoff appearances 2016 - 2019 - Matt Caldwell (4 seasons) = 20 - 28 = 2 playoff appearances (2016 & 2019) 2020 - Present - James Ray (2.5 seasons) = 8 - 18 = 1 Playoff appearance (2021) That's 11.5 seasons with a total combined record of 47 - 82 with only 3 playoff appearances. All four of these coaches are not Hall of Fame guys, but they all have won at other places. I have heard that GC is starting 10 or 11 sophomores on Friday night. That may have something to do with the troubles this year. Also, they have been in almost every game. Four of their losses are by a TD or less. Young teams tend to find a way to lose those close games & veteran teams tend to find a way to win close games. Looks like they will at best finish 2 - 8 this season. EC and Picayune are 99.99999% losses. PRC & Long Beach are the only two games left that GC has a realistic chance of winning.

They will if they want to compete for playoffs in all other sports

Correct