By: Jason Bishop

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The MCA Buccaneers finished the 2017 season with a 4-6 record and a 1-4 record in region 3-A.

The Bucs have since fired or accepted the resignation of (whichever story you choose to believe), Terel Toomer. Toomer was an assistant under former coach Robbie Robinson and was the Defensive Coordinator 2 years ago for the Bucs, during the state finals appearance.

Enter Tony Glazer. Glazer was hired from Liberty County, where he served as the Defensive Coordinator and coached Raekwon McMillan and Richard LeCounte. Both, of course, have moved on to bigger and better things.

Glazer is the 5^th coach the Bucs have had in 7 years and he will mostly be charged with adding stability to a job that coach’s keep getting fired from.

The Bucs also had former starting QB, Denver Anthony, leave the program for Frederica.

With only a few weeks left before the start of the season, MCA currently only has 23 players on the roster.

With so few bodies it will likely make for another long season in Darien.

The Bucs will open at home at The Ship against Pierce County. The speed and depth of Pierce will be too much for MCA.

MCA will then host the Brunswick High Pirates, a 6A squad that has around 100 players on the roster. Too much depth for the Bucs and they will fall to 0-2.

In the third game of the season they again host, but the result should not be any different against Jenkins County.

McIntosh County Academy will then take to the road for their next two contests against Calvary Day and Brantley. The Brantley County game may be close but I still think the Herons will be too much for the Bucs.

MCA will get back to The Ship in Darien on October 5, but another loss awaits against region foe Savannah Country Day.

On October 12 MCA travels back to Savannah for a date with Savannah Christian, this should result in the 7^th straight loss of the season.

Back home on October 19 against Claxton. Normally, I would take MCA in this game. However, with only 23 players on the roster and nagging injuries having set in by this point the depth will be an issue.

On October 26 the Bucs will play their most winnable game on the schedule in Portal. They will have to travel to just outside of Statesboro to play that game.

Then of course, MCA will wrap things up with the cross-over game as they play in a sub region. I don’t see that going well either.

Prediction: 1-9 for the Bucs. It is hard to win with only 20-ish kids on a roster in GHSA.

There will be some bright spots. You will see the Buccaneers become much better defensively under Glazer and, if healthy, you will come to know the name Josh Amerson at linebacker.