By CURTIS ROCKWELL/Sports Director

For the second time in the past 20 years, Pearl River Central has its third head football coach in as many seasons.
The Blue Devils can only hope the latest one can produce better results than the previous two.
Pearl River County native John Feaster, a former PRC assistant, takes over as the new PRC head coach this season. It also marks his third head coaching job in as many seasons after previous stops at Moss Point and Stone High. Feaster assumes the Athletics Director role as well, giving PRC its third AD in the past three years also.
He replaces Jacob Webb as the PRC head coach, after Webb also lasted only one season in Carriere before returning to the state of Alabama.
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.

The Blue Devils have lost 13 straight games coming in to this season, and 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.
Fester left Moss Point abruptly after one season. Moss Point went just 2-7 under Feaster and missed the state playoffs, marking the worst overall outing on the gridiron since the Tigers went 1-9 in 1987. The 2-7 record last season marked the worst record for the Tigers in a season in 10 years. However, despite going just 2-9 in 2013 the Tigers did manage to earn a spot in the state playoffs that season.
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.

Once again this season, PRC needs only to win one game in Region 3-6A play to possibly qualify for the South State playoffs. That’s because the league is the only one in the two highest classifications in the state comprised of just five football playing squads and not six.
Feaster is a former standout player at Picayune High School who went on to play his college ball at the University of Cincinnati. In addition to spending time as an assistant at PRC previously, he also served as an assistant coach at his alma mater under legendary head coach Dodd Lee as well before beginning his head coaching career at Stone.