**COACHING CAROUSEL**

[1KatKiller]

Lufkin HS was supposed to announce its new HFC this morning, anyone hear who got it??

[OlDawg]

Abseck was just announced as AD/HC @ Lufkin. Some of y’all (BG) should listen to your elders. HA!

[Mr. Buddy Garrity]

9 minutes ago, OlDawg said:

Abseck was just announced as AD/HC @ Lufkin. Some of y’all (BG) should listen to your elders. HA!

Yup. Wow 

 

Lufkin vs BH just got amped up. 

[Matthew328]

 

[TC2020]

17 minutes ago, Matthew328 said:

Wow!  One of the best turnarounds in the state.  I wonder if he took another job???

 

[purpleeagle]

On 1/11/2025 at 7:55 AM, Mr. Thornton Melon said:

Trying to sell subscriptions again 🙄

They use this site to advertise free. 

[TxFootball2006]

On 1/30/2025 at 12:02 PM, Mr. Buddy Garrity said:

Yup. Wow 

 

Lufkin vs BH just got amped up. 

Definitely gonna be a good game. I know Abseck is taking his OC but haven’t heard about the other side of the ball. The DC that was at Barbers Hill with Abseck regularly gave up 40+ points to any team worth a darn. I’d bet on whatever team he isn’t calling the defense for. 

[bullets13]

22 hours ago, purpleeagle said:

They use this site to advertise free. 

I'd be bothered if he didn't contribute so much good info to the site on his own. 

[Kegger]

New Caney Open

[navydawg31]

47 minutes ago, Kegger said:

New Caney Open

Wow… he was only there for like 2 seasons I feel like… 

[89Falcon]

14 hours ago, navydawg31 said:

Wow… he was only there for like 2 seasons I feel like… 

Yep, ran it into the ground.

[navydawg31]

3 hours ago, 89Falcon said:

Yep, ran it into the ground.

Ouch… didn’t realize that. Haven’t kept up with them in a long time. 

[Goslin]

GCCISD just announced their new hire for GCM HFC/AD.  
 

“The Goose Creek CISD school board has voted to approve the contract of Jay’Mond Cleveland to be the next Head Football Coach/Athletic Coordinator at Goose Creek Memorial High School.

The coach is no stranger to the district. He is a 2003 Lee High School graduate and a former Ganders offensive coordinator under head coach Tim Finn.

Cleveland left the school district after the 2021-2022 school year and took a position at Summer Creek High School. He has spent the last two seasons at Nimitz High School.

 

More than 60 candidates applied for the Goose Creek Memorial opening. The applicant pool was whittled down to a top 10 list, then to four, second round candidates and finally to two, in the third and final round.

Cleveland will be the fifth head coach since the school opened in the 2008, taking over for Daniel Ragsdale. Ragsdale was 2-28 in his three years at the helm of Patriots football, winless this last season.

Cleveland will be tasked with guiding the school district’s only Class 6A athletics program as well as its football team.”

[Mr. Buddy Garrity]

24 minutes ago, Goslin said:

GCCISD just announced their new hire for GCM HFC/AD.  
 

“The Goose Creek CISD school board has voted to approve the contract of Jay’Mond Cleveland to be the next Head Football Coach/Athletic Coordinator at Goose Creek Memorial High School.

The coach is no stranger to the district. He is a 2003 Lee High School graduate and a former Ganders offensive coordinator under head coach Tim Finn.

Cleveland left the school district after the 2021-2022 school year and took a position at Summer Creek High School. He has spent the last two seasons at Nimitz High School.

 

More than 60 candidates applied for the Goose Creek Memorial opening. The applicant pool was whittled down to a top 10 list, then to four, second round candidates and finally to two, in the third and final round.

Cleveland will be the fifth head coach since the school opened in the 2008, taking over for Daniel Ragsdale. Ragsdale was 2-28 in his three years at the helm of Patriots football, winless this last season.

Cleveland will be tasked with guiding the school district’s only Class 6A athletics program as well as its football team.”

I really wish him luck 🤞🏾 

[Goslin]

1 hour ago, Mr. Buddy Garrity said:

I really wish him luck 🤞🏾 

Yeah, he’s really gonna need it.

He’s a lot like the guy they just fired, no HFC experience, but has worked as an assistant for some successful programs.  He was at Summer Creek for a little bit, was OC at REL for a few years, he’s spent the last couple years as an assistant at Aldine Nimitz.  His advantage over Ragsdale is that he’s from here, and comes from a family of athletes who all did great things here, so he knows a lot of folks here in town.  I heard he was involved in youth coaching around here for a while so he knows a lot of the kids and parents which is something Ragsdale never had.  

I don’t think it’ll be enough, Ragsdale had assistants that had been studs at REL back in the glory days who knew folks in town and knew the kids and all that and none of that helped at all but it didn’t hurt and now at least it’s the HFC with the local connections.

I’ve said this before and will say it again, what the new GCM HFC needs to do is go to the GCCISD Board and demand that they let GCM out of having to play REL/RSS each year.  There’s no real rivalry there between the schools, GCM isn’t in the same classification as REL/RSS, and as bad off as GCM is those are 2 guaranteed losses every season.  Just say “We’re 6A and play 6A teams, not little 5A teams” schedule 3 horrible HISD teams, beat all 3, and then go into District play at 3-7.  Find a way to beat Channelview and end the season 4-6.  That’s better than RSS’s 3-7 last season and only 2 wins back from REL’s 6-4.  Most folks wont know or care how it was done, it’ll look like a big turnaround.
 

Who am I kidding?  They’re not gonna change anything.  1-9 or 0-10 season incoming.  I do wish them luck though!

 

[navydawg31]

21 minutes ago, Goslin said:

Yeah, he’s really gonna need it.

He’s a lot like the guy they just fired, no HFC experience, but has worked as an assistant for some successful programs.  He was at Summer Creek for a little bit, was OC at REL for a few years, he’s spent the last couple years as an assistant at Aldine Nimitz.  His advantage over Ragsdale is that he’s from here, and comes from a family of athletes who all did great things here, so he knows a lot of folks here in town.  I heard he was involved in youth coaching around here for a while so he knows a lot of the kids and parents which is something Ragsdale never had.  

I don’t think it’ll be enough, Ragsdale had assistants that had been studs at REL back in the glory days who knew folks in town and knew the kids and all that and none of that helped at all but it didn’t hurt and now at least it’s the HFC with the local connections.

I’ve said this before and will say it again, what the new GCM HFC needs to do is go to the GCCISD Board and demand that they let GCM out of having to play REL/RSS each year.  There’s no real rivalry there between the schools, GCM isn’t in the same classification as REL/RSS, and as bad off as GCM is those are 2 guaranteed losses every season.  Just say “We’re 6A and play 6A teams, not little 5A teams” schedule 3 horrible HISD teams, beat all 3, and then go into District play at 3-7.  Find a way to beat Channelview and end the season 4-6.  That’s better than RSS’s 3-7 last season and only 2 wins back from REL’s 6-4.  Most folks wont know or care how it was done, it’ll look like a big turnaround.
 

Who am I kidding?  They’re not gonna change anything.  1-9 or 0-10 season incoming.  I do wish them luck though!

 

Has there been talks to redraw the lines to make them all 3 5A or anything? Or is that not possible now? 

[Goslin]

1 hour ago, navydawg31 said:

Has there been talks to redraw the lines to make them all 3 5A or anything? Or is that not possible now? 

GCCISD has approved at their last Board Meeting the rezoning maps to take effect this Summer.  
 

With that said, GCCISD refused to answer when asked at that Board meeting whether this rezoning would be enough to get GCM down to 5A in ‘26.  They deferred the question to the AD who spoke later at the meeting, and no one asked him.  They DID say, however, that there are some things they can do beyond rezoning like moving programs around that can get those numbers down as well.  They also said that even if GCM drops down in ‘26, it’ll be right back up in ‘28 or ‘30 at the latest and unable to drop again because the rezoning is going to fill REL/RSS up so there won’t be any more room to take the excess students out of GCM and they’re going to keep growing with all the new construction out there.

Long story short, it looks like they’re probably going to get GCM back down into 9-5A-1 in ‘26 but it’ll only be a 2 year break before they go back up to 6A to stay in ‘28.  RSS in 9-5A-1 and REL in 9-5A-2 SHOULD be staying where they are.  Barber’s Hill is set to exceed 6A enrollment numbers by next year so most folks figure BH and GCM will switch places, BH moving up to 23-6A and GCM taking their place back down in 9-5A-1 with RSS.

None of this spares GCM Football the whooping they’re going to get again this season in 23-6A plus it wouldn’t matter if Nick Saban is their HFC they can’t beat REL in the shape they’re in and probably not RSS either.  
 

 

 

 

[navydawg31]

1 hour ago, Goslin said:

GCCISD has approved at their last Board Meeting the rezoning maps to take effect this Summer.  
 

With that said, GCCISD refused to answer when asked at that Board meeting whether this rezoning would be enough to get GCM down to 5A in ‘26.  They deferred the question to the AD who spoke later at the meeting, and no one asked him.  They DID say, however, that there are some things they can do beyond rezoning like moving programs around that can get those numbers down as well.  They also said that even if GCM drops down in ‘26, it’ll be right back up in ‘28 or ‘30 at the latest and unable to drop again because the rezoning is going to fill REL/RSS up so there won’t be any more room to take the excess students out of GCM and they’re going to keep growing with all the new construction out there.

Long story short, it looks like they’re probably going to get GCM back down into 9-5A-1 in ‘26 but it’ll only be a 2 year break before they go back up to 6A to stay in ‘28.  RSS in 9-5A-1 and REL in 9-5A-2 SHOULD be staying where they are.  Barber’s Hill is set to exceed 6A enrollment numbers by next year so most folks figure BH and GCM will switch places, BH moving up to 23-6A and GCM taking their place back down in 9-5A-1 with RSS.

None of this spares GCM Football the whooping they’re going to get again this season in 23-6A plus it wouldn’t matter if Nick Saban is their HFC they can’t beat REL in the shape they’re in and probably not RSS either.  
 

 

 

 

Thanks for reply. I guess I didn’t realize how much growth was going on to send kids to GCM but then again I wanna say someone on here was hoping for a 4th GCCISD school to open up? Which that would make sense on the growth… If so I wonder if that would put 4 schools at 5-D1 or 2 for the district…. 

[Goslin]

57 minutes ago, navydawg31 said:

Thanks for reply. I guess I didn’t realize how much growth was going on to send kids to GCM but then again I wanna say someone on here was hoping for a 4th GCCISD school to open up? Which that would make sense on the growth… If so I wonder if that would put 4 schools at 5-D1 or 2 for the district…. 

GCCISD can’t afford to rebuild RSS and it’ll be declared unsafe in 4 years if it isn’t rebuilt, it’s got a LOT of structural problems that were discovered a couple years ago.  Voters have rejected the last 2 Bonds put up to a vote, and are in no mood for a 3rd Bond election.  GCCISD had to draw millions out of their “rainy day fund” and make a lot of cuts and close/consolidate a couple elementary schools to stay solvent this year and they said at the last Board meeting they’ll have to do all that again next year and the year after will be even worse because they’ll have to start repaying their “rainy day fund” as well.  What I’m saying is that there isn’t going to be any 4th High School although they may finally force a consolidation as a way to save money.  We’ll have to wait the next couple of years to see if things improve financially for GCCISD or if they have to continue to cut/consolidate in order to stay afloat.

[navydawg31]

1 hour ago, Goslin said:

GCCISD can’t afford to rebuild RSS and it’ll be declared unsafe in 4 years if it isn’t rebuilt, it’s got a LOT of structural problems that were discovered a couple years ago.  Voters have rejected the last 2 Bonds put up to a vote, and are in no mood for a 3rd Bond election.  GCCISD had to draw millions out of their “rainy day fund” and make a lot of cuts and close/consolidate a couple elementary schools to stay solvent this year and they said at the last Board meeting they’ll have to do all that again next year and the year after will be even worse because they’ll have to start repaying their “rainy day fund” as well.  What I’m saying is that there isn’t going to be any 4th High School although they may finally force a consolidation as a way to save money.  We’ll have to wait the next couple of years to see if things improve financially for GCCISD or if they have to continue to cut/consolidate in order to stay afloat.

Hopefully GCCISD can get their funds right! Man didn’t realize all those problems. 

[Goslin]

1 hour ago, navydawg31 said:

Hopefully GCCISD can get their funds right! 

They can’t.  They’re broke and can’t pass a Bond.

 

[Separation Scientist]

I wish GCM (and RSS and Lee) all the best. Like I said earlier, I support my neighbors. I wish we all could do that. Since GCISD has a lot of Thursday games, I am even there in support when I get the chance.