🚨🚨Coming this summer🚨🚨
The
@PrepRedzoneSC
Football Media Days will be held at four locations across South Carolina.
Teams will have an opportunity to meet with media members from around the state and from outlets big and small alike.
Guys, this video of Myrtle Beach QB and USC commit Luke Doty is pretty unreal. Was alerted to this play by
@elswick_ryan
and got the clip from MB assistant Kevin Colyer. Doty is No. 9, just in case it doesn’t become apparent.
Final numbers for South Florence QB LaNorris Sellers this season
Passing: 150-of-258, 2,948 yards, 45 TDs. Two interceptions.
Rushing: 144 carries, 1,338 yards, 17 TDs. 0 lost fumbles.
IMO, he was the most influential player in the state this year.
Last year, friends of mine had
@CoachWMuschamp
hold up the sonogram of their would-be miracle baby to announce the pregnancy. This week, Will got to meet Luke face to face.
This meant the world to a couple of Gamecock faithful and some really great people.
We're talking about practice, man.
Not a game. Practice. Prince showed up - we ain't talking about a game, not a game, a practice - rocking this outfit.
This is why he was the franchise player.
“Prince & The New Power Generation - Olympics rehearsal 1991:
“Dearly beloved — we have gathered here today
To get through this thing called rehearsal”
Say what you will about Will Muschamp. Like him, dislike him - whatever.
Dude just sat thru part of a JV game and a girls game to then get to watch Tonka Hemingway play and spend time with his folks.
It is my pleasure to announce the finalists for 2023 South Carolina Mr. Football.
*Zion Dobson, Hampton County
*Avery McFadden, Hillcrest
*Turbo Richard, Northwestern
*Josiah Thompson, Dillon
*Watson Young, Daniel
It is my pleasure to announce the rosters for the 2023 Touchstone Energy Cooperatives Bowl, to be played on Saturday, December 9 at Myrtle Beach's Doug Shaw Memorial Stadium.
Congratulations to all these young men, their teammates, coaches and families.
Your 2021 South Carolina Mr. Football is Hilton Head linebacker Jaylen Sneed.
Sneed is the first linebacker in 27 years of the award’s existence to win.
Huge news, as Manning DE Monteque Rhames - a USC commitment who transferred from Sumter - is ruled immediately eligible to play for the Monarchs via a 3-2 vote by the SCHSL Executive Committee.
Manning shares a region with Aynor and Loris.
Thrilled to be able to release the rosters for the 2021 Touchstone Energy Cooperatives Bowl (
@NorthSouthFB
).
It's not hard to look at these 88 players and see this could be the best roster in the game's history.
Incredibly saddened to hear about Melanie Bennett. She was compassionate and funny, strong-willed and forgiving.
Thinking about Dave and the kids, and hopefully their memories of her help them during this impossible time.
FINAL: Aynor 38, Dillon 30.
Blue Jackets improve to 7-0 and 3-0 in Region VI-3A. They also end Dillon's 52-game region winning streak, one that dated back to 2009.
Pleased to announce the three finalists for
@TheSunNews
Toast of the Coast Baseball Player of the Year:
*Nick Bray, P, St. James
*Luke Edwards, SS, Myrtle Beach
*Walt Richardson, 3B, Aynor
They will be included on the full TOC team, along with 9 other selections.
Today marks 10 years since my last cigarette after 17 years as smoker - many of those multiple packs a day.
Celebrated at the gym, doing a shit ton more cardio than I ever could before. Crazy longs, healthier heart, can’t lose.
@exavierpope
@RexChapman
And I bet you felt like a damn boss, too.
I know my wife's SSN by heart because on the day when the bar results came out back in 2009, she made me check the results for her. I entered those digits at least 20 times.
McMaster just laid a handkerchief on the tracks of a runaway train.
Just stop with the bullshit news conferences and announcements that are only wasting out time.
At least for the time being, the South Carolina High School League WILL NOT suspend the spring sports calendar.
Another executive committee meeting is scheduled for 4 p.m. Monday, in which members will take into account info from various superintendents and state leaders.
Wife points to two guys sitting next to us at lunch earlier. "I'm gonna buy their meal."
Me, without hesitation: "Why?"
Two utility employees, likely about to have a rough few days. I'm so focused on us I didn't even notice they were sitting there.
Perspective is key.
St. James has announced Billy Hurston will be the school's new athletics director. Hurston, who has served as the assistant athletics director in recent years, was also the Sharks' first football coach. He replaces Paula Lee, who is retiring at the end of the academic year.
Everyone go buy your nearest high school athletics director a cup of coffee.
How these men and women navigate the spring sports calendar and keep their respective trains from derailing has always impressed me.
Raise teacher pay.
Raise counselor pay.
Raise custodial pay.
Raise cafeteria pay.
Raise IT pay.
Raise transportation pay.
When the people charged with taking care of our kids know they’re appreciated, they do a better job.
It’s really not a mystery.
This time, it was necessary.
Good on Dawn Staley for standing up for herself. And, meanwhile, hopefully showing several living generations, old and young, that attacking someone has consequences.
Signed, A Mizzou Grad.
FINAL: Myrtle Beach 68, AC Flora 59.
Seahawks with several huge plays in the final minute to punch their ticket to next Saturday’s Class 4A state championship game. It’s Myrtle Beach’s sixth ever trip to the finals and first since 2008.
FINAL: Myrtle Beach 52, Hartsville 31. Seahawks improve to 11-1 and will advance to the state championship game next Saturday at Williams-Brice Stadium. Seahawks will be going after their 8th state title.
Will Smith and his family are likely going to have a big decision to make this summer after the MLB draft.
It’s a story 10-plus years in the making for the Conway star with dreams of playing at Coastal Carolina.
Little Friday afternoon news dump…
Effective July 1, I’ll be assuming a new role as the Director of
@prepredzonesc
.
We’re no longer the start-up we were in 2020. This is the strongest high school football coverage squad in South Carolina.
I’m ready to see what else we can do.
Another school district in South Carolina just found out the hard way that paying its coaches a fraction of what others here are making has consequences.
Love it or hate it, the market has changed dramatically. Districts that don’t respond are going to keep feeling this pinch.
Y'all ready for the official and insane Hartsville rushing numbers from last night's 82-42 win over Myrtle Beach?
As a team, the Red Foxes ran 62 times for 781 yards and 11 touchdowns. Both the yards and TD count were school records.
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Parents, DO NOT run your kids social media. And, if you can’t heed that advice, at least swallow this:
Do not - under any circumstances - lie about your kid’s athletic progress or abilities.
The final part of the
@MyHorryNews
football preview includes digital playing cards of nine selected athletes. All nine will be released on our web site in the next two days alongside the individual player features.
Here is
@ConwayTigersFB
senior Cameron Alston's card.
Not long after Caden came to live with us, we recognized he had a gift that could be honed with hard work.
Still, after some ups and downs, he spent much of this year preparing mentally for life after competitive running.
Turns out, he can do that later.
Proud of you, son.
Latest on Luke Doty: No break, no dislocation. Will be evaluated in next few days.
He was surprisingly upbeat. When I mentioned working with Burger and cheering on his teammates, he said “Next man up.”
The preseason S.C. Prep Football Media Poll has been released.
Class 5A
1. Dutch Fork (15)
2. Gaffney
3. Summerville
4. Fort Dorchester
5. Byrnes
6. Sumter
7. TL Hanna
8. Spartanburg
9. Lexington
10. Dorman
Others receiving votes: Blythewood, Hillcrest, JL Mann
The three finalists for
@MyHorryNews
All-Area Team Offensive Player of the Year:
*Jaquan Dixon, RB, GSF
*Luke Doty, QB, Myrtle Beach
*Mason Garcia, QB, Carolina Forest
BREAKING: The player
@MBSeahawks_FB
coach Mickey Wilson said may be the best receiver to ever suit up for the Seahawks has made his college decision.
J.J. Jones is committing to
@TarHeelFootball
.
Find yourself someone who’ll celebrate an anniversary by eating Italian food and ice cream on a truck bed. The rest takes care of itself.
The last 13 years have been pretty awesome.
Myrtle Beach boys basketball player Robert Swanson will be honored on Friday for topping the 1,000 career scoring mark (he did it over the holidays). Lot of local kids have done it, but he's actually the first Seahawks boy to do it since Ramon Sessions (2004).
FINAL: Myrtle Beach 37, Greer 21. Seahawks (12-1) earn their eighth state championship in program history exactly five years to the day since their last.
Gonna put this as bluntly as I can:
You want to know why the vast majority of South Carolina’s baseball AND football coaches want their seasons to be played in the spring?
It’s because neither believes fall sports are going to happen here.
This isn’t some deep-rooted enigma.
No reason to bury the lead: I tested positive for COVID-19.
Most importantly, so far everyone else in my family is feeling fine and I hope to keep it that way. I’ve been mostly away from them locked in a room since my symptoms started.
South Carolina 2026s, the next rankings update will be released May 6.
DM or reply here with your game film from last fall. Evaluations for that class have already begun.
Since joining the SEC in 2012, Mizzou is 54-39. In that same span, South Carolina is 55-38. The Gamecocks have one more win and one less loss overall in that timeframe. The superiority complex against the other Columbia team is maybe a bit misplaced.
Everything for the
@NorthSouthFB
is set for 11 a.m. Wednesday.
We'll announce what 88 players we're bringing to the beach for the 2023 Touchstone Energy Cooperatives Bowl, and every player is gonna feel the love tomorrow.
Stay tuned...
Aside from the confusion the last two days, aside from the back-and-forth and now the Class 4A playoffs getting turned on their heads...
You'd have to argue pretty hard to convince me this week's actions weren't timed exactly like this to hurt Ridge View.
Myrtle Beach WR Adam Randall being handed his Under Armour All America Game jersey at halftime.
Randall is the first Seahawk ever selected for the game. Game will be played in January in Orlando, just before he enrolls at Clemson.
Ian’s Twitter has been hijacked because he doesn’t want anyone to know that it’s his birthday! So here’s to the one with arms long enough to take family selfies! Happy Birthday Ian! Love you!
TOAST OF THE COAST | Myrtle Beach’s Edwards named Player of the Year, St. James’ Centracchio Coach of the Year to lead all-area baseball selections. (With full team)
Before Mark Haggard, aka
@allzoner
, signs off with his final broadcast for
@wpdeabc15
on Sunday, I wanted to take a moment to thank him for what he's done for this area.
And with that, one more big thank you to
@MyHorryNews
for an awesome ride.
My chapters have overlapped more than I could have ever predicted. But filing on deadline in the shadows of stadiums for this publication - one that yanked me back in - will always be memorable.
Onward.
High school football coaches in Horry County are making more money than ever.
We wanted to know why and how. So over the course of seven weeks, we sent out FOIAs to multiple S.C. districts and conducted a whole bunch of interviews.
It led to this.
Class of 2024, you’re on deck for the
@PrepRedzoneSC
rankings, to be released Tuesday. If you aren’t yet ranked, don’t wait around to get that new film in. DM or reply with a link directly to your HUDL.
We’re in crunch time. Do your part.
Hey,
@CoastalFootball
, what would you think of hosting the Myrtle Beach-North Myrtle Beach football game on November 6?
Asking for a whole bunch of folks who otherwise won't be able to see it live.
That’s a wrap from the 2021
@NorthSouthFB
. As many of these as I’ve covered, this was different. More exhausting, yes, but also more rewarding.
Hope it was as enjoyable for y’all as it was for me.
Sign your organ donation cards. Make sure it’s on your driver’s license. Give something that only you can give.
Mike Leach left his mark on college football, yes.
But his decision to donate will likely save lives and give families he never knew precious time with loved ones.