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Teams that moved up from 5A to 6A:Center HillGrenadaPascagoula— Brandon Shields (@bshields0244) October 29, 2020
Teams that dropped up from 6A to 5A:George CountyGreenville West Harrison— Brandon Shields (@bshields0244) October 29, 2020
Desoto County (which is all one school district) now has six 6A high schools and one 5A that’s near the top of 5A.
Wait-- Desoto will have 7 schools in 6A. So maybe South Panola in 1 and both Oxford and Tupelo in 2.
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I expect they'll keep Tupelo in 1, keep South Panola & Oxford in 2. In 2 years, it'll probably be easy. Distrist 1 will just be the Desoto County district. Edit: MOVE Oxford to division 2.
Big changes in 5A. 33 schools, so one division will have to have 9 schools. Looks like Division 3 will lose the Jackson schools and add Hattiesburg, Wayne County & Florence, which is very good news.
Big changes in 5A. 33 schools, so one division will have to have 9 schools. Looks like Division 3 will lose the Jackson schools and add Hattiesburg, Wayne County & Florence, which is very good news.
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District 2 is going to go from a monster to Godzilla.
Could be:
Oxford, Tupelo, Grenada, Starkville
Madison Central, Germantown, Warren Central, Clinton
My proposal is to move Brandon, Pearl, Northwest Rankin and Meridian into District 2 and put MC, Germantown, WC and Clinton with Terry, Murrah, Oak Grove and Petal. It pretty much evens out football but helps with other sports where the North has a ridiculous amount of better teams.
Could be:
Oxford, Tupelo, Grenada, Starkville
Madison Central, Germantown, Warren Central, Clinton
My proposal is to move Brandon, Pearl, Northwest Rankin and Meridian into District 2 and put MC, Germantown, WC and Clinton with Terry, Murrah, Oak Grove and Petal. It pretty much evens out football but helps with other sports where the North has a ridiculous amount of better teams.
A part of me hopes that the MHSAA makes 5A really strange and create three 11-team districts just for insanity's sake.
That sure doesn't seem like real fair. Some of those 3a schools are 150 kids bigger.
Pine Grove Girls have won the last 4 1A basketball championships, it may be a year or 2 before they are back in the “state” conversation but being in with New Site/Belmont/Baldwyn won’t help that any, meanwhile with Ingomar moving down to 1A last year, the 1A “Big House” bracket will more or less be known as the Ingomar Invitational.
I had an feeling that move for PG was coming in the future as tons of kids have left Ripley/Falkner/Jumpertown for PG.
I had an feeling that move for PG was coming in the future as tons of kids have left Ripley/Falkner/Jumpertown for PG.
Kinda sucks for Warren Central. Gotta drive right by their biggest 6a rival in Clinton to get to the closest school in their new region (Terry). Murrah would have been the more logical choice to send south since they are the only 6A Jackson school with no real rivalries to maintain.
Those schools were dominating small school basketball North when I was in high school and there was AA, A, BB, and B.
Loved doing play-by-play for the girls B and BB tourneys.
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A lot of people left Jasper County for better opportunities.
You can’t just get by on timber and oil and gas anymore.
You can’t just get by on timber and oil and gas anymore.
They lose everything after this year and next. Won't be very good at all.
There are many instances where school districts need to consolidate. Even...
if they cross county lines.
In Mississippi, few counties need more than a single school district. If a school district office can't take care of 20 schools, the district office is inefficient.
if they cross county lines.
In Mississippi, few counties need more than a single school district. If a school district office can't take care of 20 schools, the district office is inefficient.
I suspect Warren Central was moved because they were furthest away from Tupelo and Oxford. They’re still got the furthest distance to travel in Region 3 but they won’t have a seven-hour roundtrip for a region game each year.
Good luck on getting enough Jasper Countians to agree on something. Heck, there are two courthouses because folks from the west side of the county didn’t want to travel to Paulding.
To be fair though, travel back then was a pain in the neck.
To be fair though, travel back then was a pain in the neck.
Smith and Jasper Co. are just too big to have one school. They'd have to have two due to the size of the counties. Both are top 30 counties in MS area wise. Bay Springs and Stringer combining makes sense but that will NEVER happen. Taylorsville and Mize make sense as well.
If Holmes County can have one school, then it's possible; however, I'll agree that it'd be really difficult to happen because of the two school districts as well as Bay Springs - Stringer.
Actually, both South Panola and Warren Central make more sense for District 2 than Tupelo and Murrah do. I suspect it was done for some semblance of competitive balance. The real culprit here is MHSAA's insistence that all districts have to be exactly the same size.
I agree. Oxford/Panola is a nature geographical rivalry, and you’d keep them together. Tupelo in my mind is the real outlier, and their easiest trips would be to the Desoto schools. Murrah is closest to NWR, Pearl, Terry and Brandon, so I see no reason to split them. Unless they just needed to keep a cupcake in Region 2. If you swapped WC for Murrah, that makes it murderers row, with Germantown being the lowest on the totem pole, so to speak.
They lose every starter over the next two years and have nothing behind them for a couple years. They'll still be ok in 1A but it'll be a couple years. Bay Springs will win 1A next year. They return almost their whole team.
That's been said before when good 2A teams drop down. It rarely happens. Then again 1A football isn't what it was 20 years ago.
Bay Springs will be strong next year. They're a solid 2A team this year but should be better next year because they're young. Got a 6'3, 230 lb RB that's a 10 grader. He was offered by State last year. Taylorsville will be down a little next year but solid. Lumberton and Simmons should be solid. Those are generally going to be your 1A powers. Resurrection is up and down. And Collins barely missed 1A, so in a couple years, they'll probably be in that mix.