2016 EMCC Football News
Featuring five home contests and back-to-back Saturday games to conclude the regular season, the reigning MACJC state champion Lions of East Mississippi Community College have announced their 2017 football schedule.
East Mississippi Community College is scheduled to conduct three separate summer football camps during the month of June on the Scooba campus.
East Mississippi Community College’s pipeline to the National Football League continues to grow as a result of the recent NFL Draft. Along with former Ole Miss and EMCC teammates D.J. Jones and Chad Kelly being selected this past week, EMCC alums Avery Gennesy and Corey Smith have signed undrafted free agent deals this week.
The East Mississippi Community College football program will be hosting the Second Annual EMCC Football Golf Classic on Friday, April 28, at Lion Hills in Columbus.
With nearly two decades of coaching experience working with some of Mississippi’s most successful high school football programs, David Boykin has been hired as East Mississippi Community College’s offensive coordinator. The hiring was announced this week by 10th-year EMCC head football coach Buddy Stephens.
Reigning MACJC state champion East Mississippi Community College will conduct open football tryouts on Friday, Feb. 24 on the Scooba campus.
Former East Mississippi Community College All-American LeGarrette Blount is set to become the third former EMCC Lion to make a return trip to the Super Bowl, as the New England Patriots prepare to take on the Atlanta Falcons in Sunday’s Super Bowl LI at NRG Stadium in Houston, Texas.
East Mississippi Community College’s annual transfer of graduated football talent to the next level continued during National Signing Day. Including the former EMCC players who inked during December’s mid-year signing period and those who signed Wednesday, the EMCC Lions will have a total of 25 players moving on to compete at four-year universities.
A total of 31 incoming football players were announced during Wednesday’s National Signing Day by head coach Buddy Stephens of the reigning MACJC state champion Lions of East Mississippi Community College.
Bo Wallace, a former NJCAA All-America quarterback and three-year starter at Ole Miss, has returned to East Mississippi Community College to become an assistant football coach on Buddy Stephens’ Lions coaching staff.
East Mississippi Community College’s De’Andre Johnson added to his impressive list of individual accomplishments for 2016 by being selected to this year’s NJCAA Football All-America Second Team, as chosen by the NJCAA Football Committee.
The Lions of East Mississippi Community College remained undefeated in postseason bowl play under head coach Buddy Stephens with a 27-17 win over No. 13 Kilgore (TX) College in Sunday afternoon’s Mississippi Bowl played at A.L. May Memorial Stadium on the campus of Mississippi Gulf Coast Community College.
Set to make their fifth postseason bowl appearance under the guidance of ninth-year head football coach Buddy Stephens, the third-ranked Lions of East Mississippi Community College will meet the 13th-ranked Kilgore College Rangers during Sunday afternoon’s Mississippi Bowl in Perkinston. The ninth bowl contest hosted by Mississippi Gulf Coast Community College is slated to kick off at 2 p.m. at A.L. May Memorial Stadium on the MGCCC campus.
Former East Mississippi Community College star Randall Mackey will be inducted into the Mississippi Bowl Hall of Fame at ceremonies during Sunday’s bowl game.
The MACJC state champion and third-ranked East Mississippi Community College Lions (10-1) will take on the 13th-ranked Rangers of Kilgore College (6-4) in next month’s Mississippi Bowl to be played on Sunday, Dec. 4 in Perkinston. Kickoff is set for 2 p.m. at newly renovated A.L. May Memorial Stadium on the campus of Mississippi Gulf Coast Community College.
Fresh from earning their fifth MACJC State/NJCAA Region 23 football championship in eight years, the third-ranked Lions of East Mississippi Community College have placed a state-most seven players on this year’s NJCAA All-Region 23 football team, as announced Monday by the Mississippi Association of Community and Junior Colleges office headquartered in Jackson.
