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www.panews.com Diboll's Vanover Among Finalist at PA Memorial PA names AD-football coach finalists By Dave Rogers - The News staff writer Posted: 02/06/06 - 11:11:55 pm CST One former Port Arthur head coach and one former Beaumont head coach are among five finalists for the job of Port Arthur athletic director and Memorial High head football coach. Former Thomas Jefferson coach Ronnie Thompson and former Beaumont Central coach Marvin Sedberry top the list of five who will be called in for interviews Tuesday, Jimmy Wyble, PAISD personnel director, announced Sunday evening. Other finalists for the job left vacant by the January resignation of Dean Colbert include the district's interim AD, Shane Sinegal; Diboll head coach and athletic director Finis Vanover; and Douglas Wood, the defensive coordinator at Pflugerville Connally. Wyble said he and Raymond Polk, the interim principal at Memorial High, met Friday and reviewed resumes and letters of interest from a total of 19 applicants. The meeting, ordered by temporary superintendent Larry Redmond on his first day on the job, resulted in the two men narrowing the list to five finalists. Wyble says he will be joined by Polk and Redmond in conducting the interviews Tuesday. He said he had not been given a timetable for naming a new AD-head coach. "I don't have that information," Wyble said. The school board will have the ultimate vote on the man who will inherit the task of heading Port Arthur's athletic department. The next regular board meeting isn't scheduled until Feb. 23, but an emergency meeting could be called sooner if desired. Thompson has been head coach at Vidor, Thomas Jefferson and South Garland high schools and an assistant with the San Antonio Toros of the World Football League and at the University of Texas and Texas A&M. But he's best known as TJ's head coach from 1978 to 81, leading the Yellow Jackets to the 1980 state championship game. Sedberry has been head coach at Wilmer-Hutchins, Beaumont Central, Greenville and Bryan. His Bryan teams have posted records of 6-5 and 4-6 the past two seasons. At Central from 1988 to 1991, he led the Jaguars to a 30-13 record and three playoff appearances. Vanover is well-known in Southeast Texas. He was defensive coordinator and assistant head coach in two stints at Beaumont French in the 1970s and 1980s and was head coach at Hardin-Jefferson from 1983 to 1985. He has been head coach and athletic director at Class 3A Diboll since 1993. Since 1977, Wood has coached as an assistant at Arlington Sam Houston, Euless Trinity, Austin McCallum and Pflugerville Connally, serving as both offensive and defensive coordinator. In the early 1980s he spent six years as a head middle school coach in Arlington. Sinegal, who has been Port Arthur's head ninth-grade coach the past four football seasons, has never been a varsity head coach. He didn't begin coaching until 1990, after stints as a carpenter and a department store security guard. Other applicants for the job included Edison Middle School head coach Arnold Revuelta, a former offensive coordinator at Lincoln; Triny Rivera, the former Memorial High baseball coach; and Ron Stump, offensive coordinator at Houston Westbury and the oldest brother of West Brook High head coach Craig Stump. Also Marshall Lawson, head coach at Fort Worth Dunbar; Danny Ramsey, line coach at Cypress Creek; Larry Wise, assistant principal at DeSoto; Nathaniel Session, offensive coordinator at Fort Bend Kempner; and Bradley Beau Thompson, offensive coordinator at Deweyville. Additionally, Daryl Hobbs, a former pro player from Humble; Terence Williams, assistant head coach at Channelview; Tonny Wallis, assistant coach at Ennis; Lonnie Cook of Temple Holy Trinity Catholic; Rippy Morales of Minneapolis; and Kevin Bradley of Methuen, Mass. Wyble said it's still possible that someone who hasn't yet declared interest in the job could wind up being considered. "It depends on when they have the board meeting to announce the new head coach-athletic director," he said. "The bottom line is until it's filled, it's open. That's how it's listed on the job posting."

Thanks Tilley!

Why Boutte??

How does Vidor look this year?

Big games again tonight!!

Game results, Stats need here from Little Leagues!

I hear there're going to be pretty good!

Just wondering what the Hawks will have back next year?

I don't know but he is a good one!

Those will be some interesting Districts to watch as well! Thoughts??

Thanks!

He's done a good job!!

I've noticed that in Basketball and Baseball where teams tend to drop even after a win?? :scratch

Why does he want to leave? Money?

How long has he been there?

Not yet, Thought you would have them..LOL

Wonder what all Schools will have Coaching openings in Basketball after this season??

Texarkana QB stands tallest Uncle Rico boasted he could once throw a football a quarter-mile and wanted to bet that he could throw the pigskin over a mountain in the movie Napoleon Dynamite. No one's come anywhere close to that. But give Ryan Mallett a few years, and who knows what could happen? Word of the 6-foot-6, 230-pound junior quarterback from Texarkana Texas High and his incredible arm strength is already wowing college coaches. Throw in that he has all the other tools to be an elite quarterback, and it makes Mallett the top recruit in Texas for the class of 2007. "That's probably my trademark," Mallett said about his arm strength. "That's what people always ask me about and what they see the first time they see me play. It takes them two or three times of seeing me to notice that I'm not just throwing the ball hard." Texas High coach Barry Norton joked that Mallett can "throw it from here to Dallas." He hasn't quite reached Dallas, but as a freshman, he was throwing the ball 70 yards in the air at camps and threw one 81 yards last summer. "It doesn't take much of a brain to figure out that that's pretty special," said Jeremy Crabtree, director of the recruiting Web site Rivals100.com. The velocity has been dangerous to receivers at times. In the season opener last year, he connected with a teammate on a 16-yard crossing pattern, hitting him right in the palm of the hand. The ball was thrown so hard that it dislocated two of the player's fingers. "He's probably got as strong an arm as anybody I've ever seen as a junior in high school," said Randy Rodgers, a former recruiting coordinator at Texas and Illinois who now advises more than 50 Division I-A schools. It's not just his arm strength that has made Mallett the top recruit in the state and the No. 9 recruit in the country, according to Rivals100.com. He is also very accurate. "He can throw the ball on line 40-50 yards down the field," Rodgers said. "It makes him an unbelievable prospect if he's in an offense where the receivers run a lot of spot routes." And he's shown he can handle the most pressure-filled situations. As a freshman, he played twice in the regular season. He made his next start in the Class 4A Division I state semifinal against North Crowley. Texas High lost 17-13, but Mallett almost rallied his team to victory in the final minute. "I was looking for some freshman kid to look like a normal freshman," North Crowley coach Mike Papas said. "He walked into the starting lineup and looked like anything but a freshman. He looked like he was in command of the whole thing." Mallett has improved since then. As a junior, he completed 133 of 221 passes for 2,219 yards with 21 TDs and only six interceptions, leading Texas High to a 9-1 record. The team lost 38-31 to eventual state champion Highland Park, which had Matt Stafford, the top quarterback in the country for 2006. As the top recruit in the state, he'll probably have his choice of colleges. Mallett said he wants to play for a team with great tradition, and schools such as Texas, Michigan, Arkansas and Nebraska are likely to be in the mix. Rivals100.com ranks him as the nation's second-best junior quarterback behind Jimmy Clausen from California. With a strong senior season, he could surpass Clausen. In order to do that, Rodgers feels he'll need to work on reining in Mallett's arm. "You can't throw the heater on every pass, and he's getting better at that," Rodgers said. "He has a year to work on that."

Because of damage??

Yea right!! Remember Kirbyville LOL :BB

I knew that was coming!! :mrgreen:

Now that WH is 1A they should make some noise! I'm curious to see how SP does this year?? Thoughts?

UIL mistakes/corrections 3 mistakes at least: 1.placed Magnolia West in district 18 4A...West will not play varsity for 2 more years as they are a new school. Also in 18 4A...Livingston is requesting re-assignment due to travel...they want to go Houston area or Beaumont area. 2.District 21AA is requesting to move from Region3 to Region 2..this is a replay from 2004 when their request was granted. 3. District 7 4A in Fort Worth has 11 schools which is a violation of UIL rules...a real mess.