Thursday, July 31, 2025

Jackson Academy Arrows Garner Top 20 Ranking

 Check out Sports Illustrated's Preseason Mississippi High School football rankings.

 

1. Tupelo

2. Brandon
3. Madison Central
4. Hattiesburg
5. Grenada
6. Hartfield Academy
7. Louisville
8. Oak Grove
9. West Point
10. Starkville
11. Jackson Prep
12. Ocean Springs
13. Jackson Academy
14. Picayune
15. Noxubee County
16. Poplarville
17. Warren Central
18. Petal
19. Gulfport
20. Northwest Rankin
21. Pascagoula
22. South Panola
23. Heidelberg
24. Germantown
25. MRA

23 comments:

Anonymous said...

That headline is going to sting some folks on Sherwood.

Anonymous said...

@ 10:01
Not sure what your reference is?

Anonymous said...

Big brother still two spots ahead of them. Got to try harder.

Anonymous said...

10:10, Clinton is the "Arrows"

Anonymous said...

We need more kids working hard to be the best in academics. Slamming kids heads into the ground and each other isn't helping our mean IQ scores around these parts.

More books, less foozball.

Anonymous said...

Satire my man, satire. He knows that. Keep up.

Anonymous said...

10:23, it seems like a lot more normal men in the US played football than US men that didn’t play football growing up. Also, football teaches teamwork and perseverance, and involves a lot of exercising.

Anonymous said...

NIL, baby, NIL!!!

Anonymous said...

And “big brother” still behind HF. LMAO.

Anonymous said...

NIL is here.....just hidden like the old days.

Anonymous said...

Oh yeah - my dad can out spend your dad!!

Anonymous said...

JA is still behind Hartfield and Jackson Prep in the preseason rankings. I would have thought that all of the new players at JA would have pushed them ahead of those two teams. Hartfield and Jackson Prep must have done some good recruiting in the offseason as well. It will be an interesting season.

Anonymous said...

Sure was nice to see how Robert Wilson acknowledged Hartfield’s returning starters and barely touched on the recruits in his expert analysis of their squad this year. Let’s hope he’ll maintain the same objectivity for Prep and MRA.

Anonymous said...

Well, these schools know sports pays. Academics doesn't. Reminds me of the 1990s with the wild Wild West of recruiting in the MAIS. In the 90s, though the MAIS was able to corral one of the issues, and weren't afraid of lawyers like they are now. There are kids who live in cities who have been faking the bona fide move, to go to school somewhere, and this faculty loophole. NIL and recruiting are becoming an issue. Time fr the associations to do something about it.

As it pertains to this new culture of school spots. It's going to defeat the whole mentality. Players are going to have the "Whats in it for me" mentality, and it will be chaos. Coach is going to struggle with how to get a group to come in to be a team, when kids are going to be worried about their individual goals and accomplishments. Wild Wild West.

Anonymous said...

Well Brandon is in the right spot. Always coming in second lol. Maybe this is their year

Anonymous said...

Mehhh...It is pre-season rankings. High school football at that. No one really pays attention to them anyway. It's more for pre-season click bait for the people who put them together.

Anonymous said...

10:10, I think he means Sheffield.

Anonymous said...

An * should go beside any championship that Jackson Academy wins….

Anonymous said...

Is there a * on Hartfield’s last 2 championships? Would there be one on MRA’s or Prep’s, both of whom have transfers?

Anonymous said...

Where do I file this? Under News? Commentary? Culture? Jackassery?

Anonymous said...

Hitting the "NO SHIT" button.

Anonymous said...

I laugh at all the caterwauling over the MAIS. The MHSAA have been masters of recruiting for years. I could give tons of examples, but I give one that even the media acknowledged.
After Germantown came from nowhere to dominate high school hoops last year, and vanquished Madison Central (another recruiting machine) in the title game. The announcer of the TV broadcast opined, "This Germantown team wasn't built, it was assembled."

True words. Very true words.

Anonymous said...

When Prep is listed as #10 I knew this poll was bunk. They lost 40+ seniors last year and 21 out of 22 starters. What they have coming up now isn't impressive. It will be MRA and JA battling it out this year.


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