Transfer speculation

[Rebel Bert]

Common sence should tell you if you the parent and or child wants to play South Panola, Oak Grove, or whereever just plan on moving, get there and get a job. Enroll your child and cary on with life. Just remember places like Flowood and Brandon cost more to live.Yes there are some good paying jobs. Good schools around, etc. 

[pancho]

10 hours ago, Chunky6617 said:

Football but I’m sure it goes on in all sports 

It does but other than Tupelo in football? Booneville and Biggersville have recruited boys and girls basketball players for over a decade.

[Old Golfer]

Heard the Oxford kid lived in Water Valley anyway!!

[doyouevencoachbro]

23 hours ago, coachfball87 said:

Also saw Oxford QB going to Tupelo. So it begins. 

They will probably hire a coach, who's son is a good QB.

[coachfball87]

Running Back from Lloyd Star. 

[Chunky6617]

These kids nowadays are so dramatic. The kid is basically admitting he’s transferring just to play sports. If the MHSAA allows him to transfer they should be ashamed. But i wouldn’t be surprised if Loyd star is freely releasing him. I heard either he or his family had become an issue. Regardless, I have a feeling he’s going to find out the grass is not always greener on the other side of the fence. He was blessed to be in the offensive system that Loyd Star ran, which gave him the ball 25+ times a game, and allowed him to rush for a ton of yards against weak opponents almost every week. In any other offensive system, he doesn’t come close to putting up the same rushing stats. I think he’s about to learn a harsh lesson, and it appears it will be his and his family’s own doing. 

[Rebel Bert]

3 hours ago, Chunky6617 said:

These kids nowadays are so dramatic. The kid is basically admitting he’s transferring just to play sports. If the MHSAA allows him to transfer they should be ashamed. But i wouldn’t be surprised if Loyd star is freely releasing him. I heard either he or his family had become an issue. Regardless, I have a feeling he’s going to find out the grass is not always greener on the other side of the fence. He was blessed to be in the offensive system that Loyd Star ran, which gave him the ball 25+ times a game, and allowed him to rush for a ton of yards against weak opponents almost every week. In any other offensive system, he doesn’t come close to putting up the same rushing stats. I think he’s about to learn a harsh lesson, and it appears it will be his and his family’s own doing. 

Big difference between 2A and 5A. He may can tote the pill but it may end with less stats.

[pancho]

It'll be a good experience for him.

[Old Golfer]

Bigger schools robbing the smaller ones, but MHSAA won’t step in and stop it. 

[Rebel Bert]

1 hour ago, Old Golfer said:

Bigger schools robbing the smaller ones, but MHSAA won’t step in and stop it. 

Only the school board or superintendent can stop it by law if I am correct. Your probably going to here from a lawyer if you vote down the release I will assume u will.

[Chunky6617]

That’s not accurate. The MHSAA is the one who determines the eligibility of recruited players. They just ruled the kid from Stringer ineligible that was being recruited by West Jones this past season. In this case, Loyd Star may not be protesting the move. I get the feeling both parties want to move on from the other. 

[Football In MS]

On 12/27/2025 at 5:42 PM, Chunky6617 said:

I know oak grove, Hattiesburg, petal, and west jones recruit like crazy. I don’t know about the schools up north but I heard plenty of stories about those bigger schools up there. Petal at least tries to do it “legally”. They got the kid from taylorsville by offering the mother a job at the school as an assistant basketball coach. So nothing you can do about that. West Jones finally got busted last year, and got the kid from stringer ruled ineligible but that was only because the coach from stringer fought back and didn’t just allow them to poach his best players. Other schools have players living with coaches while claiming addresses that they don’t actually live at. Heidelberg has been rumored to be doing that right now currently.  Look, if the players actually move to those school districts with their families then so be it. But these bigger schools cherry picking the best players from smaller schools and those players never actually moving to those districts has got to stop. 

I can only think of 1 kid in the last 2-3 years who was a starter and left a school about 30 mins away (Columbia 5A) to attend OG. Family moved, so it’s legit.

 

But to say that OG “recruits like crazy” is unproven… unless there are tons of kids transferring to OG just to sit the bench and so we never hear of them because they’re not playing … which seems unlikely. Local kids don’t transfer just to ride the pine. So unless you got names to attach to the speculation, you’re just blowing hot air.

[Chunky6617]

2 hours ago, Football In MS said:

I can only think of 1 kid in the last 2-3 years who was a starter and left a school about 30 mins away (Columbia 5A) to attend OG. Family moved, so it’s legit.

 

But to say that OG “recruits like crazy” is unproven… unless there are tons of kids transferring to OG just to sit the bench and so we never hear of them because they’re not playing … which seems unlikely. Local kids don’t transfer just to ride the pine. So unless you got names to attach to the speculation, you’re just blowing hot air.

They just took the kid from PCS literally this last season, but to me that’s a wash anyway because PCS is allowed to legally recruit. The recruiting at oak grove and Hattiesburg starts before they get to high school. 

[Dubaction]

2 hours ago, Chunky6617 said:

They just took the kid from PCS literally this last season, but to me that’s a wash anyway because PCS is allowed to legally recruit. The recruiting at oak grove and Hattiesburg starts before they get to high school. 

OG has lost several kids to PCS, Sumrall, Purvis, etc for baseball and things of that nature in the past . But it’s only cool to complain when they leave to go to bigger schools apparently 

[Chunky6617]

4 hours ago, Dubaction said:

OG has lost several kids to PCS, Sumrall, Purvis, etc for baseball and things of that nature in the past . But it’s only cool to complain when they leave to go to bigger schools apparently 

I never said it was cool anywhere, I have said the opposite actually. But thank you for confirming what I’m talking about. And if OG granted those players a release, that’s on them. 
 

I will even go a step further and say I’m not totally opposed to a player leaving to go play a sport for his senior season, but it would have to be a situation where the MHSAA looked at it and determined the player had underclassmen that was ahead of him and he was not going to get to play his final season, and therefore they would allow him to transfer somewhere else his senior year. I wouldn’t be totally opposed to that, but it would have to be a process that had to be looked into. 

[pancho]

These situations will get more interesting now that there is a potential for more cash to flow.

[Guntriple]

The MHSAA usually only investigates if a complaint is made or if something on the transfer form looks off, not living with parents, moving from House to an apartment, whole family didn’t move, etc…. A lot of times they send someone from the school to check on it.

 

They should have someone outside the schools investigating anything like this posted on Twitter and check it more than once. I’ve seen both sides where a kid I thought should be eligible made ineligible and a kid (at my school) I thought should be ineligible made eligible.

[watchyalips]

On 12/30/2025 at 7:09 PM, Chunky6617 said:

These kids nowadays are so dramatic. 

It's a direct result of social media falsely amplifying people's perceived importance. 

[s1nglewing]

43 minutes ago, watchyalips said:

It's a direct result of social media falsely amplifying people's perceived importance. 

Big dog @ 2A; Lhasa Apso in 5A

[Merlin]

I was reading a few months back about how there are at least 3, at that time, with a handful of other potential, lawsuits being filed by families against theirs states high school sports governing bodies for ruling kids ineligible when the kids/families did the proper stuff to facilitate transfer to another school, and also against coaches/school officials from the prior school that issued the complaint to stop the transfer.  I believe it was Texas, Ohio, Oklahoma, Louisiana and Florida were the states either the cases.  In each the complaints were the kids had collegiate NIL offers that the amount the kids would get from their nil could increase if the kids moved to larger classification or more competitive schools.  The arguments were made that by not allowing the kids with nil offers as such to transfer them the old school officials and the sport governing bodies were in effect interfering with potential employment income of the kid.  Which violates several labor and wage laws.

 

These filings caused several states to pass laws allowing high school NIL and new transfer rules.  Alabama passed a law to allow kids to transfer out of the district they live in as long as the kids can have consistent transport to the new school.  Then the Alabama high school sports ruled 2 brothers ineligible and promote the state governor to file suit against on behalf of the brothers, accusing the ahsaa of violating state law.  
 

This is also the very reason why the Mississippi legislature is looking into passing a school choice law this spring. In hopes of preventing a bunch of schools (public money funded) from getting sued by kids who transfer and the former school contesting it. This will stop entities funded by public funds from getting sued, but not the high school sports governing bodies, who can pick and choose its rules to enforce Willy-nilly based on friends of friends of council members or what not and none of their own bylaws have any basis in actual law.  They would face the brunt of the lawsuits alone.  
 

The Tupelo qb that was ruled ineligible got a court injunction allowing him to play at Tupelo starting end of regular season or playoffs year before last.  Hattiesburg had a girls basketball player that was from poplarville get an injunction a few years back allowing her to play.  Actually every case that got to civil courtroom where kids were ruled ineligible, the mhsaa lost.  Because their rules have no basis in law and they can’t prove their claims as such.   

 

in the case of the kid from stringer to west jones.  His mom was incarcerated.  He lived with grandmother in stringer.  His siblings lived in jones county with relatives and attend west jones.  When his mom was released and regained custody she lives in a community that feeds WJ.  The kid transferred.  Was ruled eligible.  Then stringer coach got panties in a wad, contested, kid ruled ineligible.  WJ countered kid ruled eligible.  Stringer countered again ruled ineligible. Lawyers were hired but the case never got to court as it wouldn’t be heard before end of season so was sent to adjudicator and mhsaa decision stood. Kid went to Wayne academy.  Then after stringer and Wayne academy played the kid posted his highlites from game on hudl and it apparently started contrast talk between him and kids from stringer.  Stringer coach went to the dean at WA with screenshots and the dean kicked the kid out of school.  why does this matter?  The kid has NIL offer from MSU, amongst others.  And if they remove or lower it due to his missed season who do you think gets hit with that lawsuit?  Especially when the family has 2 recorded calls with someone from prior school telling him that he was warned before transfer he wouldn’t play a down?  
 

 

 

[Football In MS]

13 hours ago, Chunky6617 said:

They just took the kid from PCS literally this last season, but to me that’s a wash anyway because PCS is allowed to legally recruit. The recruiting at oak grove and Hattiesburg starts before they get to high school. 

I’m really listening to you here - but totally lost. Need a name of the starter OG “took” from PCS. I can’t find one in any sport.

But I do know of one starter in basketball (male - Class of 2025) PCS took from OG when he was a junior. They recruited him well & he was successful at PCS.

[Dubaction]

1 hour ago, Football In MS said:

I’m really listening to you here - but totally lost. Need a name of the starter OG “took” from PCS. I can’t find one in any sport.

But I do know of one starter in basketball (male - Class of 2025) PCS took from OG when he was a junior. They recruited him well & he was successful at PCS.

He’s referring to the DE Ruffin that transferred in for his senior season. Every time a kid moves to another school people assume someone was “recruited”. I’d love to know what package OG offered his family for him to come to that school. Lemme guess they got a full year lease for an apartment paid for and some office job for his mama. Give me a break. 

[Football In MS]

10 hours ago, Dubaction said:

He’s referring to the DE Ruffin that transferred in for his senior season. Every time a kid moves to another school people assume someone was “recruited”. I’d love to know what package OG offered his family for him to come to that school. Lemme guess they got a full year lease for an apartment paid for and some office job for his mama. Give me a break. 

Kids move all the time to be seen at a larger school with more visibility so they can get college offers. That doesn’t equal recruiting 

[Chunky6617]

16 hours ago, Football In MS said:

I’m really listening to you here - but totally lost. Need a name of the starter OG “took” from PCS. I can’t find one in any sport.

But I do know of one starter in basketball (male - Class of 2025) PCS took from OG when he was a junior. They recruited him well & he was successful at PCS.

He was a defensive lineman. Believe his name was Ruffin. And yes, PCS is a private school who can legally recruit. That’s why I said that was a wash. I don’t care who gets recruited away from private schools. 

[Chunky6617]

14 hours ago, Dubaction said:

He’s referring to the DE Ruffin that transferred in for his senior season. Every time a kid moves to another school people assume someone was “recruited”. I’d love to know what package OG offered his family for him to come to that school. Lemme guess they got a full year lease for an apartment paid for and some office job for his mama. Give me a break. 

It’s not a matter of offering a player anything. It’s simply getting in their ear and convincing them to come play for them instead.