Roy Rigsby will bring lengthy coaching experience in Mississippi when he becomes head football coach at McAdams in the fall. The Attala County School Board approved the hiring at its April board meet.
“While searching for our next football coach, the interviewing committee had several goals that were necessary for McAdams High School,” said assistant principal and athletic director Kenyon Ross. “We had about 15 applicants who applied for the position. After a thorough and lengthy process, coach Roy Rigsby was chosen to be the new head coach at McAdams High School. Coach Rigsby has been coaching for over 17 years and has head coaching experience at the 1A and 5A level. During his coaching career, he has sent several players to the next level to continue their athletic/academic career. He has shown himself to be very well-rounded, a mentor, great rapport with students, well respected in the coaching community and an outstanding classroom teacher.”
Rigsby is a 1991 graduate of Magee High School, who attended Copiah-Lincoln Community College and received an educational psychology degree from Alcorn State in 1997. He played football at Magee High School and Co-Lin.
Rigsby began his coaching career at Bassfield where he was defensive coordinator for Lance Mancuso, one of the most successful coaches ever in Mississippi with multiple state championships. “He’s a tremendous coach and he might be a better person,” Rigsby said.
His next stop was an assistant at Magee. “I had an opportunity to go back home.”
He was an assistant at Natchez, then head coach there from 2016 to 2019. The last two years, he was head coach at Noxapater.
Rigsby sees McAdams as an opportunity to build the program. “My first philosophy is that you are more than just a coach. A lot of times, you have to be a father, a brother or an uncle, whatever is necessary. To make young men great men.”
He doesn’t subscribe to any set formations on offense and defense, but to adjust to the talent.
Rigsby expects to have some type of spring session at McAdams. “We have to get them out on the field to evaluate them, even if it just skill sets.”
McAdams went 1-9 in the fall, including two forfeits while the team was quarantined.
“When trying to build any program, one must look to build a solid foundation,” Ross said. “In the past 16 years, McAdams football has had only two winning seasons and three playoff appearances.”
