The MACJC has restored some of the out-of-state scholarships it had eliminated earlier this year.</p>
<span class="pp"></span>The 14 Mississippi junior college football programs can once again sign up to eight out-of-state players using five scholarships. The MACJC presidents had cut that to a maximum of four out-of-state signees in an unpopular ruling earlier this fall. Mississippi State coach Dan Mullen, Ole Miss coach Houston Nutt and several junior college head coaches were against the change.</p>
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The change “would have placed too much pressure on coaches,” MACJC commissioner Jim Southward said Wednesday.</p>
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Out-of-state scholarships in other sports also were returned to their previous amount, but the MACJC did not reinstate additional out-of-state scholarships given to border schools. In football, border schools could sign an extra 10 out-of-state players.</p>
