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The cookie is set by GDPR cookie consent to record the user consent for the cookies in the category 'Functional'. The cookie is used to store the user consent for the cookies in the category 'Analytics'. These cookies ensure basic functionalities and security features of the website, anonymously. Necessary cookies are absolutely essential for the website to function properly. Still working as the head coach for EMCC, Coach Buddy led his team to win the 20 JUCO National Championships. The team travels to Goodman next week to face Holmes Community College. After watching himself go by kicking and screaming and cussing in season 1 of the series, Coach Buddy Stephens vowed to be a little more reserved-ish in Season 2. That is ridiculous.”ĮMCC travels to Ellisville tonight to face Jones County Junior College. I don’t think it detracts from our guys but for adults it does. “I don’t want it to detract from our guys winning a game, but it will. “This situation is over,” Stephens said after the game. It was a heated atmosphere - eight personal fouls were called and two players were ejected. “I have been impressed by Coach Stephens’ reaction to this incident and am confident this situation will have a positive outcome for many.”ĮMCC won Saturday’s game, 48-24. Log in or sign up for Facebook to connect with friends, family and people you know. “The EMCC football program has excelled under the leadership of Coach Stephens and our hope is that this will be a great teaching opportunity for our coaches and student-athletes,” Huebner said. Huebner said he hopes the situation is a learning experience. Jim Southward, the MACJC commissioner, in a message to The Dispatch, said his office has “thoroughly investigated the incident.” The MACJC, he said, has allowed EMCC and “the officials’ association to administer any sanctions or penalties to the two individuals involved.” Huebner, in his statement Wednesday, said the Mississippi Association of Community and Junior Colleges and National Junior College Athletic Association both “accepted our self-imposed penalties.” Things like that can’t happen because they are a reflection of the program. “I take responsibility for everything on the sideline,” Stephens said after the game. The alternate official - who The Dispatch has been unable to identify - left the field, as well. He told The Dispatch after the game he volunteered to leave the playing field.

Afterward, Stephens coached the rest of the game from the press box. The incident stopped the game for approximately 10 minutes. The two are then separated by coaches and players. Stephens responds by either throwing a punch or lunging at the game administrator - the video is not clear. Current coach of the Statesmen Todd Cooley has gone 8-12 in his last two seasons and his contract expires in 2021.In video footage circulating online, an alternate official, while standing along EMCC’s sideline, appears to throw a clipboard and possibly a punch at Stephens. If he does move to the NCAA ranks, it will probably to alma mater, DII Delta State. However, he may move to another JUCO program as EMCC continues to cut its budget. Could Buddy recruit that well in DI where everyone has just as many resources (if not more) than you? I doubt it.īuddy is probably more than happy as a king in NJCAA. And even this is partially due to EMCC’s gigantic recruiting budget compared to many of its rivals. And Campbell was a former FBS assistant, so he has administrative connections that Buddy doesn’t have (Stephens has coached just one year in the NCAA- as a GA at Delta State).īuddy’s biggest strength is his ability to recruit not just big recruits, but big college transfers.

He had to win the DII national championship to get a look at a DI program (and he still flunked out at South Alabama). Steve Campbell won a NJCAA title at Gulf Coast and was only offered a DII job. There’s a ton more management, and a whole lot more factors to deal with (more staff to handle, more politics, more players, NCAA scrutiny). Understand that there is a gigantic difference between JUCO coaching and NCAA coaching.

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