Yahoo Sports Playoff coach’s resignation kicks off South MS high school football coaching carousel
The high school football season on the Mississippi Coast is winding down, which means the coaching carousel has begun turning.
We’ll track all the head coaching changes from around the region here as they happen during the off season.
Bay High coach steps down
NOV. 12: Jeremy Turcotte is stepping down as the head coach of the Bay High Tigers, Turcotte confirmed Tuesday to the Sun Herald.
Turcotte helmed his alma mater for five seasons, amassing a 20-31 record with four playoff appearances. The Coast coaching veteran informed Bay St. Louis-Waveland school district superintendent of his decision following the Tigers win over Moss Point on Oct. 11.
He then informed his team after Friday’s first round playoff loss to Forest.
“It meant the world, it means the world to be here every day,” Turcotte told the Sun Herald of his time leading the program he graduated from in 1996. “I got to be the head coach on the field that I played on, that my dad played on and my little brother played on. All my family has been through here. My youngest daughter just graduated from here last year.
“It’s home. It was an absolute dream come true to be here.”
Bay High had not been to the postseason for seven years before Turcotte ended the drought in 2020. The Tigers won a playoff game in 2021 for the first time since 2012.
Turcotte will leave as the only coach in the school’s history with four postseason trips.
“I’m leaving things way better off than I found them and I just hope somebody can move the program forward,” Turcotte said. “I think we’ve raised the floor significantly. Maybe somebody else can come in and raise the ceiling.”
Turcotte served a total of nine years as an assistant on Bay High’s staff and spent time coaching at Long Beach, Hancock and West Harrison.
The Tigers were 2-9 this season.
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