MAIS stuff

[Maroon Eagle]

Hattiesburg's Presbyterian Christian is currently ineligible for MAIS high school playoffs pending appeal after their junior high team forfeited the rest of the season due to injuries.

River Oaks of Monroe will be applying for membership in the LHSAA citing that the increased number of Louisiana schools in the MAIS playing 8-man football is leading to increased travel time and decreased game attendance. River Oaks is in a football district with Hillcrest Christian, Brookhaven, Cathedral, and Riverfield.

Links: PCS story; River Oaks story.

 

[Cooterpoot]

PCS was only going to win 1 division game. They’ve still got Prep and MRA. This is really a non-story.

 

[patdog]

It's a big story for the future of MSAIS (or whatever their acronym is now). When a school in your largest class can't even field a jr high team, that's not good.

 

[Cooterpoot]

It's a big story for the future of MSAIS (or whatever their acronym is now). When a school in your largest class can't even field a jr high team, that's not good.

They could if they wanted to. They refuse to play their 7th graders. If they were in a playoff run season, those kids would play. It happens in small schools all the time.
But, it’s a ridiculously stupid rule.

 

[patdog]

That really doesn't make the situation any better. They still can't even field a team of 8th and 9th graders. And they're one of the largest schools.

 

[Cooterpoot]

That really doesn't make the situation any better. They still can't even field a team of 8th and 9th graders. And they're one of the largest schools.

Because of a large number of injuries. But PCS has a lot of problems.

 

[G-Dawg]

Because of a large number of injuries. But PCS has a lot of problems.

What kind of problems?

 

[G-Dawg]

I was the AD at Glenbrook (Minden, LA) the past two years and we were STRUGGLING to put a VARSITY team together. Had to start a couple of 8th graders. Not just play, START. The coach there is doing a great job getting things stabilized. But the whole time there, people were pushing for us to join the LHSAA because of travel. Glenbrook does not want to play 8-man and is trying it's best to stay at 11-man. It's just hard when you have to go 3 hours to Greenville for district games.

 

[DesotoCountyDawg]

It’s the reason why SBEC left MPSA and went back to TSSAA back in the 90s. Traveling 2-3 hours for district games vs less than an hour drives around Memphis.

 

[hail1984]

Can anyone tell me why Bowling Green forfeited all high school games ?

 

[johnson86-1]

That really doesn't make the situation any better. They still can't even field a team of 8th and 9th graders. And they're one of the largest schools.

What the hell is causing that? Is there that little interest in football among affluent kids now? Or is PCS big in high school but tiny in jr. high? When I was growing up the private schools might have 20-30 boys in a class but they'd have 17-24 play football, so you'd still end up with not problem fielding a Jr. High team, and usually they'd go ahead and have two Jr. high teams, with the better 9th and better 8th graders on one, and the 7th and worse 8th graders on the other, with everybody service as backups on the "9th" grade or really A team.

 

[Cooterpoot]

What kind of problems?

Multi-million dollar lawsuit by a kid, got into it with another school in Hburg, recruited a ton of kids from area schools and pissed off a lot of people. There was even a little talk that it would close over the lawsuit but I think that was just chatter. Always a cloud over PCS it seems. Now this...all the injuries “preventing” them from fielding a junior high team.

 

[Maroon Eagle]

Ineligible players.

Link: Here.

 

[Beerbully]

MAIS football has been reduced to 8-man ball at a lot of schools now. I've heard they base this decision on the number of male students in grades 9-12 in a given year. I might consider sending my kid to an academy depending on circumstances, such as the quality of the local public school system. However, if all things were equal and my kid was athletic and loved football, I would want him to play 11-man ball.

 

[wpmusm]

They're still suffering over the fall out of getting rid of Joey Hawkins (which they shouldn't have done but I ain't getting into that). Bunch of players left the program or the school entirely when they brought in the current guy.

PCS had fewer than 30 players on their roster last season. Lowest number since the football program started up in the early to mid 2000s. Had to call up about a dozen 9th graders to play to get their roster to a respectable number. Predictably, they only won 1 game over and it was against a terrible East Rankin team. They have more quality depth this year (mainly because they went and recruited a bunch of players) but they're still just average.

 

[wpmusm]

I think the courts threw out that lawsuit.

But yeah, they've definitely had their fair share of drama over there the last couple years. When I talk to other PCS alums, there's always amazement at the level of incompetence that comes out of the place.

 

[Cooterpoot]

They're still suffering over the fall out of getting rid of Joey Hawkins (which they shouldn't have done but I ain't getting into that). Bunch of players left the program or the school entirely when they brought in the current guy.

PCS had fewer than 30 players on their roster last season. Lowest number since the football program started up in the early to mid 2000s. Had to call up about a dozen 9th graders to play to get their roster to a respectable number. Predictably, they only won 1 game over and it was against a terrible East Rankin team. They have more quality depth this year (mainly because they went and recruited a bunch of players) but they're still just average.

Hawkins couldn’t stay sober. I could’ve mention the fraud scheme that got supporters busted or kids hacking the school computers. It really is laughable.

 

[johnson86-1]

They're still suffering over the fall out of getting rid of Joey Hawkins (which they shouldn't have done but I ain't getting into that). Bunch of players left the program or the school entirely when they brought in the current guy.

PCS had fewer than 30 players on their roster last season. Lowest number since the football program started up in the early to mid 2000s. Had to call up about a dozen 9th graders to play to get their roster to a respectable number. Predictably, they only won 1 game over and it was against a terrible East Rankin team. They have more quality depth this year (mainly because they went and recruited a bunch of players) but they're still just average.

Is the school itself is still pretty large for a private school? I was under the impression it had grown to be comparable to the Jackson schools b/c of the Hattiesburg school system being **** and lots of people tiring of the commutes associated with Oak Grove, Sumrall, Petal, etc. But I'm assuming that's incorrect if they got down to 30 players on a high school roster?

 

[Strike.sixpack]

Is the school itself is still pretty large for a private school? I was under the impression it had grown to be comparable to the Jackson schools b/c of the Hattiesburg school system being **** and lots of people tiring of the commutes associated with Oak Grove, Sumrall, Petal, etc. But I'm assuming that's incorrect if they got down to 30 players on a high school roster?

It is in the largest classification of MAIS, that was just redone for this season and next.

 

[wpmusm]

I don’t know for sure but I think enrollment has mostly stayed level. I’ve always been told that if you put PCS in the MHSAA they’d be a big 2A school. Maybe small 3A if there was a particularly large class that year or something. PCS still gets a LOT of kids from Lamar County/OG even though the schools there are quite good. The commute from Lake Serene/Canebrake to USM/FGH/H-Clinic is only 15-20 minutes so it isn’t unbearable. I don’t get the appeal of living out there but lots of people love it.

 

[Maroon Eagle]

Yeah, I’m pretty shocked at the number of Lamar County folks whose children attend PCS.

I was sold on Canebrake’s appeal when electricity returned three days after Katrina. Buried power lines are awesome.