Jackson Jambalaya

Desperate for clicks are we, Kingfish?

"All schools recruit" argument against an obvious tongue-in-cheek joke coming in 3...2...1...

A little sensitive are we, 9:57?

How awesome - congrats to JA!!! After years of sweat, practice, and hard work, they have been rewarded with a well earned championship. JA should be proud of themselves!

Great job! Go Raiders!

They bought it BOZO.

JA beat Hartfield at their own game (Recruiting)

@9:57 not as badly as you need attention.

JA couldn't beat 1/4th of the teams below its own ranking in that statewide list.

Was there ever any doubt?

Congrats to JA!!!! These folks are really going to be suicidal and hurt once School Choice passes. Just get better, train harder, & adjust.
I just hope the standards of education and rigor at Prep, JA, & H-Field (joking because there’s no standard at HA) have not suffered or dropped. If not….PLAY BALL!

@10:32 don’t forget MRA too. They started the entire recruiting circus a decade ago.

Congrats on buying a good football team.

I didn’t mention MRA because we would never do this and are def the best private school in the state academically!!!!

When did JA change its name to “Arrows” and why?

JA is a well-financed private school in a football crazy state. What they, Hartfield and MRA have done has been going on to a greater extent throughout the rest of the country for years. They have the money and they are using it. They can pick great athletes and not lower any "standards'. It's no big deal and the criticism just shows how Mississippi is always late to the game.

Champeenship?

Prep does the same, just with mostly white kids so no one really cares.

3 teams in state playoffs this weekend are from Smith County. 3A, 2A & 1A, how about we give these little guys some coverage Kingfish.

You don't want the kind of coverage that KF provides.

Small minds everywhere..........

I only wish JA would bring in more good players and play some of the out of state big name schools. It would be good for the image of Mississippi. It sure can't hurt.

What has been lost in this hullabaloo is that the Clinton football team was terrible in 2024. Actually the team was much better in 2025 without these players.

Am I saying these players were troublemakers? No way. What I am saying is that JA brought in three very good football coaches who developed these players.

The MHSAA has long recruited players. What JA did is nothing new. The JA coaches got these players to a higher level.

I have no connection to JA. I went to Jackson Public School. But I have followed high school football my adult life. I know that good coaching takes very good players and makes them great players.

As an aside, I wonder how solid O’Mari Johnson’s commitment to Chapel Bill is. Best to avoid that shit show.

Every single one of those guys from Clinton are the most down to earth people you will meet. It’s just plain racism at this point.

Yes - no doubts that high school football can turn around the image of the dumbest, fattest, poorest state.

It's racism to make cracks about a private school pilfering the best players from a public school then winning a state championship? Please elaborate. Oh, wait, that race card was burning a hole in your pocket and you decided to throw it out here. Got it.

YOU LEAVING OUT THE defensive lineman stolen away from Germantown ONE WEEK BEFORE THE SEASON.

And just how did Germantown win the 7A hoops title last year? They recruited. I laughed as the clock wound down to 0:00 in the title game, the announcer said, "Make no mistake, this Germantown team was not built, it was assembled."

Whoever said MRA was the best school in the state academically has got to stop living in their bubble. That may be the funniest thing I’ve read today.

1:25 PM, the racism BS dog doesn’t hunt anymore. Crying racism has been overused so much so that we just laugh when we hear it now. If you don’t understand, read the story about “The Boy Who Cried Wolf.”

Only retards believe that parents forking out 10’s of thousands of their hard earned dollars for their child to go to a private school like JA, should have that child’s opportunity to play sports stolen from them by some “meathead coach” that found a “heaf jank trailer man” type willing to hand pick and pay kids tuitions, just so they can “so-called” “WIN” a state championship.

But hey, sports makes ____ing idiots out of otherwise good and moral men, and the fools running these private schools have made them their “little kingdoms.”

JA didn’t win jack ____, they bought it.

4:08. With the recruited Williams kid (as in Mo) who was recruited to JA the year before.

I remember 35 years ago when high school teams 'recruiting was virtually unheard of. Then we learned that South Panola was bringing boys down from Memphis and putting their parent (not plural) up in trailers in the district.

Nothing new here. Just a different angle. School Choice will be interesting as its goal is to gift the private schools of the recruits with the cash their county usurped for school taxes.

And the proponents pretend that's not the goal?

I don’t think it’s racism to comment about the kids from Clinton. None of them are paying full price like other students. We all make sacrifices to send our kids to Jackson Academy. Have the parents pay full tuition. That’s not racism.

I guess now on basketball for Jackson Academy with a completely recruited team. Are there any kids on the basketball team that were there in the eighth or ninth grade?

What about Baseball? Any kids on that team from eighth or ninth grade?

It's a PRIVATE school. If they wish to pay a coach a quarter mil to coach high school football, that's their business. No problem if they can afford it, right? They can also afford scholarship help for kids with exceptional academic OR athletic ability. No problem, right? They want to be special and they have the ability, financial or otherwise, to do so. Why is that a problem?

Hartfield: Low budget rednecks

JA: Redneck nerds

11:23- Hartfield is not a well-financed private school.

It’s a school whose parents are paying more than they can afford to have Little Johnny got to a “private school”.

Their curriculum is sub-par and quite frankly, less of an education than what NWR can provide for free.

It’s a joke.