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Clayborn looks slow and out of shape. Potential is clearly there though.
Clayborn looks slow and out of shape. Potential is clearly there though.
JA v. Prep live stream. Two D-1 commits playing.
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Maybe true for most private schools, but ignorant when involving JA or Prep. Both teams would compete for state titles in the appropriate division of MHSAA. Prep would be 4A, JA would be 3A, and every other private school in the state would be 2A or 1A. Look back at the public schools they have beaten the past few years and get back to me.
Well, except for the fact Pearl has won 3 of the last 4.... O
ther than the first year of the series, Pearl has owned Prep. Prep skunked Pearl on field goals this year and eeked by the second year of the series with Pearl having 5 turnovers in the redzone. All Pearl's victories had to do with superior talent. Ricky Black may be the best coach in the state considering the fact he coached up guys with half the size and speed of Pearl to 3 victories.
Nonetheless, Prep would be very competitive in 4A until they played a Lafayette Co, Noxubee Co, or West Point. Pearl has always been an overrated program.
West Point is 5A. Substitute Itawamba AHS and Aston Shumpert for them. Prep and Nox would be hilarious.
No they wouldn't. They probably would be playoff teams, but no way they win state in the MHSAA. I watched Prep this year. They play hard and are well coached, but physics would take over eventually.
Also consider that to Prep, this is the second most important game on Prep's schedule. Prep's divison games are a joke and they always dominate. Prep looks to the Pearl game all year long. Not so for Pearl; the Brandon game is number one, then NW Rankin, then their division games. The Prep game is number 10 in importance of the 11 on the schedule.
As for Pearl being a good 5A team, Pearl hasn't made a deep run, or much of any run in the state playoffs in over 20 years. This year, Pearl hadn't scored a single TD at home until last week.
As for Pearl being a good 5A team, Pearl hasn't made a deep run, or much of any run in the state playoffs in over 20 years. This year, Pearl hadn't scored a single TD at home until last week.
They beat St. Stanislaus
with Dylan Favre the year they won 4A. You probably didn't realize that since they play the championship games at the Vet and you were too scared to go.
with Dylan Favre the year they won 4A. You probably didn't realize that since they play the championship games at the Vet and you were too scared to go.
I'm honestly not sure
how Pearl looks at them as far as importance goes. Certainly beating Brandon is more important to Pearl- no doubt about that. But having gone to the Prep/Pearl game this year, it seemed pretty important to Pearl to win.
Regardless, as far as Prep goes, I think it's time for them to stop playing Pearl and take on someone like Northwest Rankin. They've played Pearl six times in a row and now it's time to advance beyond that. NWR would be a fair fight since Pearl beat NWR this year and I would think it would be a more natural rivalry game. I'll even go so far as to say that I'd like to see them play Madison Central or Clinton.
how Pearl looks at them as far as importance goes. Certainly beating Brandon is more important to Pearl- no doubt about that. But having gone to the Prep/Pearl game this year, it seemed pretty important to Pearl to win.
Regardless, as far as Prep goes, I think it's time for them to stop playing Pearl and take on someone like Northwest Rankin. They've played Pearl six times in a row and now it's time to advance beyond that. NWR would be a fair fight since Pearl beat NWR this year and I would think it would be a more natural rivalry game. I'll even go so far as to say that I'd like to see them play Madison Central or Clinton.
So being a playoff team does not equal competing for a state title? How exactly do you compete for the championship then?
This.
Prep and JA have too much invested to ever be middle-of-the-pack teams. They would compete on the highest level in any division given an adjustment period. If they went MHSAA, they would consistently cherry pick a few players from around the area to put on scholarship to compete at the highest level.
The "public school athletics advantage" is a ridiculous farce.
Prep and JA have too much invested to ever be middle-of-the-pack teams. They would compete on the highest level in any division given an adjustment period. If they went MHSAA, they would consistently cherry pick a few players from around the area to put on scholarship to compete at the highest level.
The "public school athletics advantage" is a ridiculous farce.
In the MHSAA playoffs it most certainly does not. The team I shoot the most is nearly always in the playoffs. They have missed them maybe 4-5 times since playoffs started. They have only really been in the hunt 6-7 times. Making the playoffs is NOT the same thing being a serious contender to win them.
Well Todd, actually I was on the field shooting St. Stanislaus' championship game and the other 5 at the Vet that year, and the year after. I also knew who beat the Rocks that year. One of the teams I shoot lost a game to a team in their own class one year, one that didn't make the playoffs. That was their only loss and they went on to win state.
If they were allowed to recruit athletes out of the public schools and put them on scholarship then they would compete, and unfairly so. If the current rule on transfers in the MHSAA was applied and actually ENFORCED on them they wouldn't.
