Merlin Posted December 1, 2023 Share Posted December 1, 2023 This games over. Laurel kids were great in pewee going undefeated s few years. Got adults telling them Angie great they are and how many titles they win in high school. And they believe it. They come into games expecting to win by just being there. As soon as they are hit in the moth and get down by a couple scores, or if a team keeps up scoring with them and it gets mid/late 3rd they start to come unglued. They will give up. Can see it in the body language. And the coaches aren’t able to coach them through it. With West Point having 2 score lead at half of laurel doesn’t score first possession, or if they do West Point comes right back and scores, Laurel will go full on meltdown. Unforced errors. Kids not hustling every play. Some playing disinterested. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
David44 Posted December 1, 2023 Share Posted December 1, 2023 Coach Chambliss living right. Heavy rain an wind right on time for his ground and pound offense. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Merlin Posted December 1, 2023 Share Posted December 1, 2023 6 minutes ago, David44 said: Coach Chambliss living right. Heavy rain an wind right on time for his ground and pound offense. Great. Give laurel fans more to complain about. They already been swearing since 2016 they lost cause of the rain. This team will lose because they aren’t that good and they only got this far cause Picayune, West Jones, and Hattiesburg went to 6A and what is left of 5A south is horrible. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cards1968 Posted December 1, 2023 Share Posted December 1, 2023 Strange call there. Hit was inside the field of play. They hadn't blown it dead quite yet. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
maroontide06 Posted December 1, 2023 Share Posted December 1, 2023 4 minutes ago, Cards1968 said: Strange call there. Hit was inside the field of play. They hadn't blown it dead quite yet. Are y’all about to wrap it up? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
David44 Posted December 1, 2023 Share Posted December 1, 2023 7 minutes ago, Merlin said: Great. Give laurel fans more to complain about. They already been swearing since 2016 they lost cause of the rain. This team will lose because they aren’t that good and they only got this far cause Picayune, West Jones, and Hattiesburg went to 6A and what is left of 5A south is horrible. Laurel wasn’t winning anyway but the rain certainly favors WP style of play. And yes 5A south was pitiful this year. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
s1nglewing Posted December 1, 2023 Author Share Posted December 1, 2023 28-7 WP. Love that modified Short Punt formation and the Maryland I Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cards1968 Posted December 1, 2023 Share Posted December 1, 2023 1 minute ago, maroontide06 said: Are y’all about to wrap it up? That should do it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
maroontide06 Posted December 1, 2023 Share Posted December 1, 2023 Just now, Cards1968 said: That should do it. Well congrats. Coach Chambless gets to go out on top. Can’t beat that. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cards1968 Posted December 1, 2023 Share Posted December 1, 2023 Just now, maroontide06 said: Well congrats. Coach Chambless gets to go out on top. Can’t beat that. For however brief it is, always being able to say he led West Point to the overall title lead isn't too shabby a brag. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tidesmanforlife Posted December 1, 2023 Share Posted December 1, 2023 My TV has froze up still 8:47 to go in the 3rd Quarter. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
maroontide06 Posted December 1, 2023 Share Posted December 1, 2023 Just now, Cards1968 said: For however brief it is, always being able to say he led West Point to the overall title lead isn't too shabby a brag. No it’s not. You think he’ll have the itch to get back in the ring at some point? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cards1968 Posted December 1, 2023 Share Posted December 1, 2023 2 minutes ago, maroontide06 said: No it’s not. You think he’ll have the itch to get back in the ring at some point? If so, probably in Alabama if I had to guess. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cards1968 Posted December 1, 2023 Share Posted December 1, 2023 Twice in the same game post possession fouls. Not on my bingo card. That one was correct. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ltroo002 Posted December 1, 2023 Share Posted December 1, 2023 17 minutes ago, Cards1968 said: Twice in the same game post possession fouls. Not on my bingo card. That one was correct. 35 -7 WP 4th qtr Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dubaction Posted December 1, 2023 Share Posted December 1, 2023 What a waste of time. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MSSportsGuy Posted December 1, 2023 Share Posted December 1, 2023 Good thing that extra class created more excitement by having the survivor of a 12 team 5A south half go up against a dominant opponent. I'm just being my usual sarcastic self about the stupidity of the extra class of course but I will never forget the director saying this was to increase excitement when in reality it was just a money grab. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tiburon Posted December 1, 2023 Share Posted December 1, 2023 there was certainly nothing exciting about that game. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
maroontide06 Posted December 1, 2023 Share Posted December 1, 2023 15 minutes ago, Tiburon said: there was certainly nothing exciting about that game. Nope it sure wasn’t. I’m sure West Point is happy to get another gold ball, but it almost has that MAIS feel to it where there just isn’t enough competition. This scenario will be exactly identical next year, so go ahead and mail the 2024 gold ball to West Point as well because there’s nothing out there that’s going to change the status quo. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dubaction Posted December 1, 2023 Share Posted December 1, 2023 Was that a senior heavy team for Laurel ? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vott Posted December 1, 2023 Share Posted December 1, 2023 2 hours ago, maroontide06 said: Nope it sure wasn’t. I’m sure West Point is happy to get another gold ball, but it almost has that MAIS feel to it where there just isn’t enough competition. This scenario will be exactly identical next year, so go ahead and mail the 2024 gold ball to West Point as well because there’s nothing out there that’s going to change the status quo. 2 hours ago, maroontide06 said: Nope it sure wasn’t. I’m sure West Point is happy to get another gold ball, but it almost has that MAIS feel to it where there just isn’t enough competition. This scenario will be exactly identical next year, so go ahead and mail the 2024 gold ball to West Point as well because there’s nothing out there that’s going to change the status quo. Not only is that possible, but I am going to say that in class 5a-7a south that the teams that made the playoffs in 2023 will be the exact same teams to make it in 2024. In 5a I dont see East Central Vancleave, South Jones or North Pike making it. 6a Pearl River Central, West Harrison and Long Beach are definitely not making it. And 7a Petal, NW Rankin, Diberville and St. Martin probably wont make it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Merlin Posted December 1, 2023 Share Posted December 1, 2023 2 hours ago, Dubaction said: Was that a senior heavy team for Laurel ? I think about half the starters. But to hear them tell it they 9th grade went undefeated for the 15th year in a row so they will just reload. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vott Posted December 1, 2023 Share Posted December 1, 2023 1 minute ago, Merlin said: I think about half the starters. But to hear them tell it they 9th grade went undefeated for the 15th year in a row so they will just reload. If the 9th grade teams go unbeaten that many seasons in a row, they take steps back once they start playing for the varsity. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EnterpriseBulldogsFan Posted December 1, 2023 Share Posted December 1, 2023 4 hours ago, maroontide06 said: Nope it sure wasn’t. I’m sure West Point is happy to get another gold ball, but it almost has that MAIS feel to it where there just isn’t enough competition. This scenario will be exactly identical next year, so go ahead and mail the 2024 gold ball to West Point as well because there’s nothing out there that’s going to change the status quo. West Point losses everybody and the coach is leaving and Holmes Co Central will be loaded for bear in 2024. I believe WP's long run of state title appearances will end in 2024. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Merlin Posted December 1, 2023 Share Posted December 1, 2023 2 hours ago, Vott said: If the 9th grade teams go unbeaten that many seasons in a row, they take steps back once they start playing for the varsity. The peewee teams have been good for a while. Did have a few undefeated in a row winning some league they joined. But not all those kids are in the laurel school district. But they have been good then they get parents and such filling their heads with it and they start to think they win just by showing up. Then some of those parents and so called “coaches” of various pewee teams and such try to tell the high school coaches how to do things. Also Laurel superintendent a few years ago cut bay for sports assistants and flat told the head coaches to cut staff down (big part of why Todd breland left) and this is what’s left. I know some younger kids that should be in the Laurel school district moved out to northeast jones during the summer. The guys from Laurel that stream their games said multiple times this year that half of wests jones team should be at Laurel. Which is false, only 1 player on that team went to a Laurel Elementary and moved to west in 8th grade. The players they claim should be at Laurel ironically went to Sharon elementary, which is a jones county school that up until a few years ago whites went to west blacks to northeast (to keep minority percentages at the schools at a certain point. Something done since segregation and only ended 5-6 years ago). But never have they lived in laurel school district zone. At any rate. High school level coaching staff being partially undermined and also flight of people trying to get out of the city limits is taking a few athletes away from laurel bit by bit. But their fans don’t see any of this. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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