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So, back on-topic, how’s the hunt going for Coach Abseck’s replacement? Can’t find anyone to take the highest paid HS HFC position in Texas? I hear Coach Ragsdale is available!

BH was only 100 from the 6A cutoff last time. They’ll be moving up in ‘26 and they know it. That’s why they scheduled 6A out of District last season. Wanted to show they were “6A ready”

There might be something to that. Retirement is based on last 3 years salary, right? Abseck was planning on staying there long term. He bought a huge place in Plantation after his first season there so he was setting down roots. You may be right about the guys before, though.

Methinks he doth protest too much! Arent we supposed to be getting back on the subject of the thread? Why you bringing up old comments from before that? You gotta get that out of your head, sorry you got triggered! Guess that truth really hurt you.

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I don’t blame them. Who wants to take the job, move down, take out a $700k mortgage, just to get bounced out of the job 3 years later?

I’m going to message you with a reply on this. They’re getting tired of off-topic stuff in here.

Well, 4 coaches in 12 years haven’t got you past 2nd round of playoffs. Guess none of those guys were the right guy? Man yall LOVED Coach Abseck until last weekend when the news broke. So much for loyalty on The Hill.

Dude, BH enrollment is only a hundred or so under the 6A threshold right now and there’s more folks moving into Riceland every day. They’ll be well over the 6A threshold by the time UIL redraws the Districts for ‘26. Not hot air, just facts.

I think we both did.

Oh, and speaking of clowns, GCCISD hasn’t had a Superintendent arrested since the late 1980s. When’s the last time the BHISD Superintendent was arrested? 2008? Y’all truly are New Baytown.

There’s quite a few folks on here and elsewhere saying that’s exactly what happened. Where there’s smoke, there’s fire. No thanks on the GCM job offer, BTW. If I enjoyed no-win situations I coulda just stayed with my 1st wife and had that with a lot less work.

It isn't Deer Park doing something nice for LaPorte. It's LaPorte and Deer Park keeping Barber's Hill out of 24-6A. GCM is dropping down to 5A from 23-6A in 2026 while Barber's Hill will be moving up. 23-6A is right down I-10, closest to them and they'll have an empty spot BUT Barber's Hill is scared to go there. They want to go to 24-6A and would like to be able to point to relationships they have with other 24-6A schools when begging UIL to keep them out of 23-6A. LaPorte and Deer Park know that, hence Deer Park "doing something nice for their neighbor". Now, they'll definitely play Barber's Hill out-of-district when asked. I mean, why not when everyone knows Barber's Hill can't beat Deer Park or LaPorte?

Get real, Baytown doesn't want to be Barbers Hill, where your HFC just got fired because he refused to give your Supt's son playing time the kid didn't earn, and the whole town is OK with it. Baytown has more class than that.

Absolutely true. Everything else comes from that. If you don't have/can't build a program that kids WANT to play for, then it doesn't matter if you're in the bigger building with the better facilities and the newer equipment. If you build a program kids WANT to play for, the wins will come. Here's a couple of examples. My son said that some of his friends at school were talking about the upcoming rezoning, scared to death that they might not get to play for REL. The mom of one of his friends from youth league who is zoned to GCM told me her son started crying when talking to her about how he wanted to play football, so please don't send him to GCM. It doesn't matter how the zones are drawn or what the facilities are like or what the enrollment numbers are if you can't fix that.

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Damn, I sure struck a nerve! Now who was it that fought all the way to the State Supreme Court over haircuts? Have fun in 23-6A in '26! I know your opponents will!

Real interesting response. There's been quite a few folks on this forum swearing up and down that Barber's Hill is 100% homegrown, and that Baytown kids don't go there to play. I've shown them the numbers straight from GCCISD but they just refuse to admit it. REL went 6-4 this year, BTW. Guess their talent didn't want to cut their locs. Coach Finn is 37-33 since he got there, they've won at least a few more than they've lost these last few years, so don't lump them in with perennial losers like RSS/GCM. I wouldn't say for sure that players wouldn't follow Abseck, though. I never said anything about anyone following Abseck to Baytown, he's not taking a 50% pay cut to coach GCM, that job wouldn't pay his mortgage. If he were to take an assistant job in one of the programs in 23-6A or 24-6A though? You might see a few folks make a move is all I'm saying You're 100% correct that the real question is why BH hasn't already found anyone for the HFC position since they're so great and have so much money to throw around? Why have they burned through 4 coaches in 12 years?

$179,917 was the exact sum. Highest-paid Coach in Houston and $25k over the #2. Again, that’s just straight pay, not counting perks plus this was reported back in Dec ‘23 so don’t know if BH staff have had a COLA or raise or anything like that in the past year. [Hidden Content]

It’s true, was reported in the Houston Chronicle last year. That’s just the official number as well. I know someone who lived by the Coach that Abseck replaced and that guy got a car as well as the salary plus other “perks”.

Honestly? Part of its bragging rights about being the program that pays the most. Also, they have to sweeten the pot because Coaches are wary of taking a job at BH and why wouldn’t they be? Just look at Coach Abseck. He’s stuck with a mortgage on a $700k home in BH now, he was planning on being there until retirement, then had to find out he was being fired from the coaches BH was calling for interviews, and all because he did what a Coach should do which is refuse a parent’s request for playing time for a player who hasn’t earned it.

Well, they’ll need all the help they can get. It really hurts them losing Abseck because what they need is someone who players/parents are loyal to who can keep those Jr School athletes in place, keep their parents from transferring them out to the Open Enrollment Districts in 23-6A GCM’s feeder Jr Schools had all their talent transfer out to Open Enrollment districts, many in 23-6A, once it became clear what District GCM would be in for the next couple years.

Dude, BH couldn’t even beat Deer Park last season, they’re never going to be able to beat both King and Kingwood.

No chance. GCM is dropping back down to 5A in ‘26. That leaves the closest District to BH with an empty spot. UIL had no problem throwing #800 GCM into the lion’s den so they’re not about to give BH a break.

No way BH ever competes for 4th place in 23-6A football. King and Kingwood compete for 4th in that District. Kingwood was 4th in District last year and ranked 84th statewide. King was 5th in District and ranked 127th. BH is ranked 188th. You’re right about the other sports and right again about GCM, but you know same as I do that football matters most to folks on The Hill.