Welcome to the Boneyard with Steve Robertson. As always, I am your good friend and host Steve Robertson here on the Maroon Friday edition of the yard. Hope that you were celebrating Maroon Friday by wearing Maroon, of course. I have seen some people tweet in recent days. It makes me think that they agree with me. It is time for Maroon Friday to be more of a regular occurrence

again and that we begin to embrace that tradition.

And perhaps as football season rolls in, maybe that'll happen.

A lot of positivity out there.

And here's the thing, folks, next week, Greg Zanky is going to meet remotely, I guess by teleconference, with the leadership of the conference,

and they're going to discuss what is to come for fall football.

Now there is a lot of discussion out there right now, not about if we're going to play or if we're not going to play, but how much we're going to play?

It's big.

You know, it's interesting, too, the Mississippi Association of Community Colleges give Courtney Robb of WCBI, the scoop there.

She put out that they are now considering a six-game divisional schedule this fall beginning in October.

You may recall that the NJCAA elected earlier this month to say,

you know what, we're going to push junior college football to the spring.

Mississippi Association of Community College has abstained from that vote.

We discussed it on a show at length here

about a week or so ago, spoke to some people around the state that really wanted to play this fall.

So it appears there is going to be an abbreviated season, but there will be a community college season

in the state of Mississippi this fall. And as I said many times, it'll make sense to me if they can pull it off because there are so many of these, especially the Power 5, you know, and then it's a term that's kind of thrown around in connection with major college football. But, you know, for East Mississippi and Gulf Coast, Northwest, you know, some of those teams that are kind of loaded with Power 5 guys. I mean, you've had these guys, you come in, you give them an opportunity to kind of rehabilitate their career and reset their recruitment. And now they're going to be gone, and you're not going to have an opportunity to get any benefit from it. And so that's interesting. And so now those guys will have an opportunity to play this fall and then we'll go from

there.

And here's the deal, too, the season's not really for those kids.

You know, the seasons for the rest of those guys that are trying to play their way

in an opportunity somewhere.

But as you guys are aware, it's not just about, you know, players.

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