LOUISVILLE — “Stay Low Coburn. You Gotta Stay Low!” I can still hear Coach MC Taylor’s voice in my head. Anybody who played for him or was around him at practice on a daily basis will probably say the same.
Coach MC Taylor took his last breath on March 22, 2022.
You could immediately see the reaction of the Louisville and Noxubee Co community. Two of the places he had his longest coaching tenure at.
He is a big reason I have the knowledge of MS high school sports today. He would give me tapes of my dad (Michael Frazier) and his team of the late 80s. I saw tapes of Jeremiah Sangster and his son Michael Taylor cause of him. Coach Taylor had been around the game so long and had seen so many greats come thru from the 60s til the 2010s.
Coach Taylor was well respected in every community he ever worked at. He left a mark on every kid he coached whether it was on the football field or PE. His football coaching style was VERY simple and straightforward. Stay low, use your forearm and make good tackles. He never accepted anything but your best effort.
He was the secret sauce behind a lot of state championships Louisville won (85, 86, 91, 93, 95, 07, 08, 13). He didn’t carry the defensive coordinator title, but he was definitely a top general on any defense he was a part of. He didn’t wear headphones or carry notes. All he needed was his stick with the football glued at the end. He won gold balls under Mike Justice, Bobby Hall, Lynn Moore and MC Miller.
Coach Taylor on the sidelines of the 93 State title game. Louisville vs Magee
Him and MC Miller were a great tandem together. They helped start the foundation of what the Noxubee Co football program is today.
Coach Taylor was one of the very few coaches who can say he taught a kid’s dad and granddad while being the coach of that kid. Before he retired he coached for 50 plus years.
He was my PE coach in my elementary days and I can still hear his voice saying, “TOE KNEES BELLY BACK.” One of his favorite exercises.
Coach Taylor was a punishing running back that graduated high school from Lanier High in 1959 in Jackson and furthered his education at Jackson State where he graduated in 1963. He was a great running back at JSU as well.
MC Taylor has been getting a lot of kind words throughout the state from coaches, writers, players, etc who he left a mark on.
“We’ve lost a good man!” -Bobby Hall
