By CURTIS ROCKWELL/Sports Director

CARRIERE — Pearl River Central has its third head football coach in less than two years and also has its third Athletics Director in that same time span.

The Blue Devil Athletic Department announced Thursday morning that John Feaster, a former PRC assistant coach, is coming back to take over as both the new head football coach and assume the AD job as well.

It will be Feaster’s third head coaching job in the past three seasons as well, as he leaves Moss Point High after one sub-par season to take over the helm of the Blue Devils.

He replaces Jacob Webb as the PRC head coach, after Webb also lasted only one season in Carriere to return to the state of Alabama.

Webb came to PRC after a lengthy career in the Alabama prep football ranks. Webb went winless at 0-9 in his lone season in Carriere. 

He has been hired at Morgan Academy in Selma, Ala., as its new head football coach and athletic director Morgan headmaster Dr. Bryan Oliver announced on Friday.

“It was evident from the interview process that Coach Webb shared a vision for the program that was consistent with our mission statement at Morgan,” Oliver said. He said Webb has a clear plan to develop Morgan Academy players and move the program to new heights.

Webb started his new job last week, providing the opening that Feaster filled Thursday morning.

Feaster becomes the seventh PRC head football coach in the past 16 seasons, and only one of those previous mentors left the school with a winning record. Webb replaced Jacob Owen, who went 13-38 during five seasons leading the Blue Devils.

Pearl River Central has gone 0-9, 1-9 and 2-7 on the football field in the past three seasons. PRC hasn’t qualified for the state football playoffs in nine years, since it completed a postseason run of four out of five years including playing for the Class 5A South State championship in back to back years in 2011 and 2012 under head coach Eric Collins. That 2015 season also marked the last time the Blue Devils had a winning record.

Feaster went 2-7 in his lone season on Dantzler Street, and did nothing to help restore the once proud Tiger football tradition.

In fact, Moss Point didn’t even make the playoffs under Feaster last season. snapping an 11-year postseason streak for the Tigers.

Feaster came to Moss Point after spending seven seasons as the head coach at Stone High, where the Tomcats went 39-34 during that span.

The Tigers now begin their search for a third head coach in three seasons with Feaster’s departure. An immediate search is under way.

Meanwhile, PRC is still looking for a new head baseball coach as well.