KFDM COOP

WOS has put it in their budget for one but doubt it will happen!

Not sure, just heard it yesterday. I'll try and find out more this week.

Remember to visit the Realignment Forum as well! Murky UIL waters to clear with realignment By Brian Todd / Reporter-News Staff Writer January 29, 2006 It all comes down to this: 1.302 schools, 2 trillion combinations and two years since the last time we've all been through this. On Thursday, the University Interscholastic League, the governing body for public high school sports in Texas, will announce its biennial realignment and reclassification. Charles Breithaupt, director of athletics and assistant UIL director, said the fans of UIL athletic and academic competition should be prepared for a few surprises when the 2006-07 realignment comes out. But despite the conspiracy theories to the contrary, there will be no cheating by the schools. Breithaupt laughed at what he called the ''old joke'' that goes, What is the cutoff for Class 5A? Highland Park plus two. ''We verify those (enrollment numbers) through TEA and PEEMS,'' Breithaupt said, referring to the Texas Education Agency and the standardized accounting program Texas schools use to report everything from enrollments to budgets. Breithaupt said once enrollment numbers are gathered, UIL assigns each figure to a code - so no one can watch any individual school's name as the list preparation begins - and the 1,302 schools' enrollment numbers are fed into a computer that generates the trillions of realignment possibilities. ''We started again in the spring of 2004,'' Breithaupt said. ''The real work began again in the fall 2005.'' That, Breithaupt said, is when the new enrollment numbers are verified and decisions are made by the UIL staff. While UIL guards its realignment and reclassification information until Thursday, Breithaupt said there are certain things he can say: Class 5A will remain the largest UIL classification. Breithaupt said that despite the growing size of some large schools, there will not be a Class 6A in Texas with the upcoming realignment. Each classification - except for six-man - will be represented by 32 districts across four regions. Within each district, Breithaupt added, there should be at least six teams for football - although there may be some exceptions such as there was with District 4-3A in the last realignment. ''Six is our magic number,'' he said. There will be 245 schools in Class 5A in the next realignment. The UIL charter calls for no more than 245 Class 5A schools, Breithaupt said, and UIL plans to put as many teams in 5A as possible. ''The more teams we put in 5A, the lower those cutoffs will be,'' he said. After 5A, UIL will aim for approximately 200 schools in each classification. Helping to raise the bottom number in 5A is the fact that there are 20 new 5A schools that did not play football at the last realignment. The dividing lines between classes will be set at approximately half of the next higher class. For example, if the cutoff between 5A and 4A was set at 1,950, then the cutoff between 4A and 3A would be somewhere near 975. Again, schools below 99.9 enrollment can opt to play six-man football instead of 11-man in Class A. When finalizing district alignments, geography - specifically the distance schools need to travel to games - is UIL's main concern. Not even on the list of concerns, Breithaupt said, is keeping traditional rivalries or districts intact. Breithaupt said that if it made sense to UIL, the organization would not hesitate to split apart District 3-5A. ''We have a very definite policy that says we are not allowed to perpetuate an old rivalry,'' Breithaupt said. ''We essentially start over every time. There is no preference for traditional rivalries or traditional districts.'' Breithaupt said that the area encompassed by Region I presents particular problems for UIL. ''As you look at the map, it is shocking,'' Breithaupt said. ''The diminishing student population in West Texas is alarming. Region I is two-thirds of the state geographically, but is just a small part of the student population.'' And that diminishing student population means there will be schools dropping down a class in West Texas and the Big Country. ''Those that have been on the bubble continue to be on the bubble,'' Breithaupt said. ''Cooper has been on the bubble. Merkel has been on the bubble.'' Contact sports editor Brian Todd at [email protected] or 676-6775.

I expect some surprises to. Thanks for posting! The biggest question is where will that 3A/4A cutoff number be??

There has been a rumor that i'll be working on this week about Larry Newman of Nederland and Matt Burnett of PNG possibly working on a way to get a turf stadium put in SE Texas..A reminder to all Guests you need to register and get joined in on the conversations. More on this later!! KC

Yep it's true!

That Gym is nice!

[Hidden Content] Neumann tops Mid-County coach pay Nederland football coach Larry Neumann is the highest paid coach in Mid-County while Port Neches-Groves football coach Matt Burnett isn't even the highest paid coach at his school. In his 13th year as Nederland's athletic director and head coach, Neumann earns an annual salary of $73,136, according to figures provided The News in response to a Texas Public Information Act request. Burnett, in his 12th year as PN-G head football coach, earns $68,862. He is not his school district's athletic director. He is the boys' athletic coordinator for the PN-GISD. Barbara Comeaux is the district's athletic coordinator for girls and the veteran volleyball coach, in her 34th year at PN-G, collects an annual paycheck of $70,306. For the record, PN-G's second-year superintendent, Lani Randall, is the highest-paid Mid-County school employee, knocking down $118,150 a year in pay, compared to $109,999 by Nederland superintendent Gail Krohn. PN-G principal Roy Esquivel makes $84,852, according to figures provided by his school district, while Nederland's Randy Lupton is at $77,836. Like the superintendents and principals, Neumann receives a straight salary as Nederland's AD. All other Mid-County coaches are paid separately for their work in athletics, on top of their teaching pay. Comeaux, who was teaching and coaching at PN-G when Burnett was still a student there, receives teaching pay of $54,305 -- compared to $46,834 for Burnett -- and that puts Comeaux over the top. A third PN-G coach, veteran football assistant George Pachuca, tops $60,000 in total pay, collecting $63,180. A total of 17 of the 40 coaches in the PN-G district earn $50,000 or more. Five Nederland athletic department employees earn at least $60,000 from the district and 14 of the 48 district coaches top $50,000 in pay. Assistant head coach Delbert Spell ($66,286) and Southard ($61,881) join Neumann at the top of the coaching pay list at the high school. Central Middle School head coach Gary Babin ($64,937) and C.O. Wilson Middle School basketball coach Jack Lynch ($60,857) are other coaching vets earning in excess of $60,000. Next on the list at Nederland, in terms of combined teaching and coaching pay, are football assistant Phil Pate ($58,000), football assistant Terry Pool ($56,997), volleyball coach Toni Leach ($55,310), track coach Steven Beagle ($54,964), football assistant David Crommett ($53,884) and girls' soccer coach Julie Johnson ($53,081). Topping the list of 50-thousand-aires at PN-G are assistant football coach Boyd Edwards ($59,986), softball coach Dale Fontenot ($59,516), assistant football coach Richard Bethea ($57,989) and baseball coach Jay Stone ($57,148). Fontenot is not a teacher, but earns a salary of $54,915 as the district's director of information services on a 228-day contract with the district. As a coach, he receives a $3,100 coaching increment for being softball coach and another $1,500 for being assistant girls' basketball coach. PN-G's athletic department is full of veteran teacher-coaches, most of whom are on 187-day contracts. Five of them earn in excess of $50,000 teaching, a group headed by Comeaux and Pachuca ($54,305) and including assistant football coach Boyd Edwards ($51,348) and Port Neches middle school coaches Sandra Rogers ($50,499) and Catherine Mendoza ($50,128). Six Nederland coaches make more than $50,000 based solely on their teaching seniority: Spell ($54,191), Southard ($51,386) and Pate ($50,916) at the high school, and middle school coaches Babin ($54,191), Lynch ($53,191) and Pamela Lawson ($50,386). As a rule, the two schools' extra coaching pay, referred to by both districts as increments, isn't large. Most PN-G coaches make between $3,600 and $4,600 per year from their increments. Nederland's coaches do a little bit better, with most coaches making between $4,000 and $6,000 in coaching increments. At PN-G, the biggest increments go to Burnett as head football coach ($10,600) and trainer Joe Martin ($5,600). Burnett and Comeaux also each get $2,850 for being athletic coordinators. Football assistant Dan Welch gets $4,100 for being the football team's offensive coordinator. PN-G's supplementary salary schedule for athletics, from which the increments come, is a bit confusing, but appears designed to keep the coaches' pay as equal as possible. Like PN-G, Nederland pays high school head coaches in sports other than football $3,100. But the two differ in that Nederland pays the same hard and fast numbers for coaches' second sports as they do their first while PN-G's schedule seems all about keeping it equal. That explains Spikes Sturdivant and Eldridge Ravey receiving $3,600 as PN-G head coaches for soccer and golf, respectively. They get more than most other PN-G head coaches because they don't coach a second sport So-called "extra days" pay is an important part of coaching compensation for a majority of coaches at both schools. Nearly 75 percent (29 of 40) of PN-G's coaches receive extra days pay. Football assistants get 15 extra days, volleyball assistants 10 extra days. Martin and Welch get 20 extra days. At Nederland, 29 of 48 (60 percent) coaches receive extra days pay. Football coordinators get 20 days, football assistants get 15 days and volleyball coaches get 10 days. In many cases, that pay is nearly as much as their coaching increment. In Comeaux's case, it is more. She receives 30 days extra pay, which PN-G's report shows comes to $8,551. That's compared to a total increment of $7,450. Burnett receives 35 days extra pay, $8,578 in his case, which comes close to his total increment of $13,450. Nederland's Spell racks up $5,795 in extra days pay, while PN-G's Welch earns $4,498. Trainers Southard ($5,495) and Martin ($4,567) earn a chunk of change with extra days. In PN-GISD, extra-days pay is figured based on the coaches' teacher pay from 2004-2005. The school district froze the extra-days pay at that level this school year when it agreed to give all PN-GISD teachers a $1,000 across-the-board raise. Extra-duty days pay boosted coaches' pay $92,944 in Nederland this year, pushing total coaching pay to $363,680 once you figure in Neumann's salary. Total coaching pay in PN-GISD is $267,897, including $88,797 in extra day pay. Listed below are the supplements being paid to coaches in the Nederland Independent School District and the Port Neches-Groves Independent School District. Nederland's Larry Neumann is paid $73,133 as head football coach/atheltic director. PN-G's Matt Burnett is paid $68,862 as head football coach/boys athletic coordinator. NEDERLAND HIGH SCHOOL COACH SUPPLEMENT SPORT Cindy Baker $2,000 Softball assistant Monte Barrow $3,500 Football coordinator $2,000 Assistant track $,4089 Extra days pay Steven Beagle $3,000 Varsity football $3,100 Head coach track $3,628 Extra days pay Jeff Bennett $2,000 Assistant baseball $,2000 Freshman football $2,991 Extra days pay Rob Bledsoe $3,100 Head coach soccer $2,000 Freshman football $2,915 Extra days pay Brian Cates $2,000 Assistant soccer Lynn Crawford $2,000 Assistant track David Crommett $3,100 Head coach powerlifting $,3000 Varsity football $3,548 Extra days pay Dale Dial $3,100 Head coach track $3,100 Head coach cross country Torrey Gomez $2,000 Assistant soccer Bill Jardell $3,000 Varsity football $2,000 Assistant track $3,484 Extra days pay Julie Johnson $3,100 Head coach soccer Bruce Kilchrist $2,000 Assistant basketball Toni Leach $3,100 Head coach volleyball $1,500 Freshman basketball $2,574 Extra days pay Sissy Lemons $3,100 Head coach softball $2,000 Assistant swimming Rob Long $2,000 Assistant golf Jorge Lopez $3,100 Head coach tennis Melissa Martin $2,000 Assistant volleyball $2,000 Assistant basketball $1,903 Extra days pay Karen Martinez $2,000 Assistant cross country Phil Pate $3,000 Varsity football $4,084 Extra days pay Terry Pool $3,000 Varsity football $2,000 Assistant baseball $3,861 Extra days pay Cody Robbins $3,100 Head coach baseball $3,000 Varsity football $2,769 Extra days pay Kimberly Robbins $4,500 Assistant trainer $2,594 Extra days pay Tommye Robbins $2,000 Assistant softball Judith Sandoval $3,100 Head coach swimming $1,200 Pool operator Larry Southard $5,000 Head trainer $5,495 Extra days pay Brian Spell $3,000 Varsity football $2,000 Assistant baseball $2,730 Extra days pay Delbert Spell $4,000 First assistant football $2,300 Off-season coordinator $5,795 Extra days pay Kelli Spell $2,000 Assstant soccer James St. Pierre $2,000 Freshman football $1,500 Freshman basketball $2,769 Extra days pay Brent Stark $2,500 Freshman football $3,484 Extra days pay John Tillie $3,100 Head coach golf Laurence Williams $3,100 Head coach basketball $2,000 Video coordinator PORT NECHES-GROVES COACH SUPPLEMENT SPORT Pat Abel $3,100 Head coach basketball $1,800 Freshman football $2,902 Extra days pay Stephanie Ansel $3,100 Head coach basketball $1,500 Fall tennis Aimee Bates $3,100 Head coach soccer $1,500 Volleyball Assistant $1,721 Extra days pay Richard Bethea $3,100 Varsity football $1,500 Powerlifting $3,890 Extra days pay Brock Buchanan $1,800 Softball assistant $1,500 Volleyball assistant $1,721 Extra days pay Riley Burnett $3,100 Varsity football $1,500 Track assistant $1,611 Extra days pay Jay Cegielski $1,500 Varsity baseball $2,100 Freshman football $2,834 Extra days pay Terry Cobb $6,000 Varsity football** Track assistant Barbara Comeaux $3,100 Head coach volleyball $1,500 Golf coach $2,850 Girls' athletic coordinator $,8,551 Extra days pay Boyd Edwards $3,100 Head freshman football $1,500 Varsity baseball $4,038 Extra days pay Justin Esquivel $1,800 Cross country $1,500 Softball assistant Dale Fontenot $3,100 Softball head coach $1,500 Basketball assistant Brant Graham $3,600 Head tennis coach Eric Laing $1,800 Soccer assistant Jake lefort $3,100 Varsity football $1,500 Basketball assistant $2,582 Extra days pay Joe Martin $5,600 Head trainer $4,587 Extra days pay Wiley McKeller $3,100 Varsity football $1,500 Basketball assistant $2,558 Extra days pay Vivian Myers $1,500 Track assistant $1,800 Spring tennis George Pachuca $3,100 Varsity football $1,500 Track assistant $4,275 Extra days pay Eldridge Ravey $1,800 Head coach golf Don Sandell $2,100 Freshman football $1,500 Soccer assistant $2,703 Extra days pay Kyle Segura $3,100 Head coach track $1,500 Varsity football $3,304 Extra days pay Jana Sheffield $3,100 Head coach track $1,500 Cross country Jeff Smith $3,100 Varsity football $1,500 Baseball assistant $3,069 Extra days pay Jay Stone $3,100 Extra days pay $1,800 Freshman football $3,805 Extra days pay Spikes Sturdivant $3,600 Head coach soccer Dan Welch $4,100 Football coordinator $1,500 Varsity track $4,498 Extra days pay ** Terry Cobb is a retired teacher-coach. Under state guidelines, PN-GISD pays him $6,000 a year to be a part-time assistant coach.

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Kirbyville wins in a thriller!

Which Team or Teams will have the best overall Infield??

Sounds like alot of fun!

:ROFL

I have got to catch a game before the end of the season.

Should be an exciting finish.

PNG and LCM both have nice weightrooms with the Glass window facing the field.

WOW!!!!!!!!!

Eagles Soar!!

Ozen had 7 players in double figures!

If they can go injury free they have a shot at Austin..

HF Boys win only their 2nd District game in 3 years.

Congrats Hearne!

Good game both teams..

West Brook 67 Spring 64 2 OT's.

Thought it would be closer..