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Li’Marcus Jones at the 2025 Southern Elite MegaCamp. Former Ole Miss commit and four-star, 2027offensive lineman Li’Marcus Jones announced on Saturday
[See the full post at: Mississippi prospects headed for Brentwood Academy in Nashville]High school sports in the Nashville metro area are out of whack. It is likely the same across the nation. There are regularly middle school kids here who take to social media announcing which school they will attend in high school. I know it is the time we live in, but part of the fun of coaching high school football from 1983 to 2018 was the challenge of taking the deck you were dealt (your student body) and arranging the cards in place to put the best possible team on the field. Recruiting for us was convincing the kids already in your hallway to play. Outside recruiting was something for the college coaches to worry about.
In my opinion, high school athletics should not be so important that a family will pack up and move, many multiple times, across the nation for the next big opportunity. Coaches and schools bear a lot of responsibility in this.
I wouldn’t trade the 36 years I spent coaching for anything, but if it had been like this when I started, I would likely have ended up being a Farm Bureau Insurance agent. It is a great time to be an ex high school coach.
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