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Going 0-10 for a couple of years as a HC does not help the resume. Just means you tried and couldn't get it done.

Pays well for a couple of years until you have to leave. He could bide his time at Liberty, continue to build an impressive resume, then go after a larger job where he might actually be able to have some success. RSS would be career suicide. Do we really think it's that attractive of a job when their last HC just left to take a coordinator position in a lower division?

They were competitive during the Tyler Copeland years, but not sure they ever made any real noise. But relatively speaking, the Westfall years were definitely the best years that program has probably ever had. They also kicked behind in powerlifting back then. I believe they had multiple state champions.

back on track? Help me understand when they were ever on track.

This is the second Baytown job in as many years where Chad Taylor's name has popped up. I have no idea why he is so bent on leaving a Liberty program he has had success at to go on a two year assignment in TXHSFB hell. This is a sure fire way to ensure he's looking for another job in the short term. Can someone enlighten me as to why this is happening?

Even Hull Daisetta pays significantly more than that.

Because it's much easier for a school board to hire a guy who has "head coaching experience" than to sit down and decipher whether or not the coordinator has HC aptitude. Doing the latter would require people on the board know football and are good judges of character, and most school boards do not have those guys/gals.

20 year tenure doesn't even get you 50k? That's truly unacceptable. Do better Batson!

He couldn't find one laying around in the job room at coaching school?

This is gold.

That Coldspring should call Chip Keel.

He is waiting for the right spot. I think he looks good in Purple, myself.

Supt wanted him gone.....period. It was a travesty and they haven't even sniffed the same level of success since. And for MEM, Chip Keel is a good coach. Coldspring would be lucky to have him.

Bro, this is unbelievably optimistic. You've got a trap game, a win predicated on Channelview being "never good early in district", and a win over king based on last years results. Sterling will be lucky to go 3-7 with a coaching change this late in the year.

Cause he fashioned Coldspring into a perennial power and was dismissed as though he hadn't won more than three games!!

No way he leaves Jasper and the familial proximity he has to enter into that dumpster fire at BC.

Care to elaborate?

Yeah, those are sketchy also. Try amillennialism.

Any chance Chip Keel surfaces for this job, or for the Shepherd job if Miles leaves for CS? He's a good one, who did some unfortunate things, but was welcomed back into the community of Shepherd after those things happened. Seems teed up to get back into the game at some point.

Anyone know what is going on here? Such a strange story.

This makes no sense, but now that I realize that you are coming at this from a Seventh Day Adventist perspective, I can begin to understand.

I'll address you both, this statement is asinine. Do you think Nick Saban, and his ilk, are fooled by the level of competition around a kid? Those kids are getting D1 looks because they have the tools to be a D1 player. The competition rarely matters....the high level coaches know talent when they see it. What I said earlier about day in and day out competition is why those kids don't succeed. And don't pass judgement too quickly on Kyler Murray. He still has a lot of football left to play.

This is correct. That's a quick way to get run out of town. It's seen as a lack of "buy in", and rightfully so. If I am the head football coach and I am asking kids to "be all in" on the Baytown Sterling football program, but my kids are "all in" at Barbers Hill, they pretty quickly realize I am full of caca.

But you are clearly not from the LeBron generation. Kids these days will bolt in a second on their teammates for a chance to win.

Is your insinuation that these athletes were met by poor coaching at the next level? Whether McNeese, SFA, or Alabama, you can bet those coaches are as good if not better than most coaches on the TXHSFB spectrum. The problem is, athletes at Newton can rely on their pure athleticism along with Johnston/Barbay's coaching aptitude to put them in positions to win. If there is any root to their lack of success at the next level, it's probably because they never had to compete in practice in high school. Some of those kids probably could have been good college athletes, but when they got to practice, and everyone was on their level athletically, they weren't willing to put in the work to earn their spot everyday. That's something Johnston/Barbay ever had to deal with at Newton. They could go half speed in practice and outshine every other player on that field.