KFDM COOP Posted December 11, 2007 Report Posted December 11, 2007 GC board names Boyd Memorial coachBy Dave Rogers Published December 11, 2007The Goose Creek school board named Bret Boyd to be the first head football coach-campus athletic coordinator for Goose Creek Memorial High late Monday night at its monthly meeting.Boyd has been head coach at Killeen Ellison the past seven years, leading the Class 5A Eagles to the playoffs each of the past three seasons.Memorial, the district’s third high school campus, will open its doors in August and is expected to compete in Class 4A its first two years.“Having been in the playoffs for the past three years, he has the knowledge about what it takes to build a program that is playoff-caliber,†said Al Richard, principal of Goose Creek Memorial.Richard and GCCISD athletic director Tom Ed Gooden were two of the five district administrators on the selection committee for the new coach.“We are extremely excited to welcome Bret Boyd to the Goose Creek CISD athletic family,†Gooden said. “Coach Boyd’s athletic experience, including his background as a head football coach and athletic coordinator, make him a perfect fit as the person to build the athletic department at Goose Creek Memorial High School.“We believe that the athletes and coaches at Goose Creek Memorial will benefit greatly from his knowledge, leadership, commitment and work ethic.â€Prior to coaching at Ellison, Boyd was head coach at Harlingen (1996-2001) and Brookshire Royal (1991-1993). His teams have won three district championships and qualified for three regional championship games.The graduate of Kerrville Tivy High School and Texas A&I University in Kingsville has a career record of 69-84 as a head coach.A total of 81 men applied for the job won by Boyd, more than two dozen of them current high school head coaches.
82 5A State Champs Posted December 11, 2007 Report Posted December 11, 2007 .....any idea what that 4A district might look like?
KFDM COOP Posted December 12, 2007 Author Report Posted December 12, 2007 New GC coach sets January startBy Michael PinedaBaytown Sun Published December 12, 2007The new head football coach in Baytown lined up opposite Billy Ray Smith and blocked for Eric Dickerson and Craig James.And he didn’t play at SMU.Memories of the 1979 Texas High School All-Star game at TCU came back to Bret Boyd recently when he came to Baytown to interview for a job and discovered his all-star coach, Toby York, was heading up the search.“I was the center,†said the Kerrville Tivy grad who went on to play at Navarro Junior College and Texas A&I. “I got to block Billy Ray Smith all night long.â€The Goose Creek school board agreed late Monday to hire Boyd, 46, as the first head football coach-campus athletic coordinator for Goose Creek Memorial for a base salary of $83,355 per year.The coach said he plans to start work here Jan. 7.“I’m planning to be there that Monday morning after New Year’s, meet with the players and have a reception with the parents,†he said Tuesday from Killeen, where he’s in the process of wrapping up a seven-year tenure as head coach at Killeen Ellison.“I think when they start the second term of school, they’re going to try to work a way to have the Memorial players in a separate athletic period, so we can all work together.“There are a lot of details still to be worked out. It’s not like you can move into a new building. I think I’m going to be working out of my truck until summer.â€Still under construction, Goose Creek Memorial is set to open next August and compete in varsity athletics in a Class 4A district.The Patriots will play their first season without a senior class and face other disadvantages that go along with being a first-year program.All of which begs the question why an established coach coming off three straight playoff appearances would covet the job of leading them through the process.“My son graduated from Killeen Ellison and now my wife and I are home alone,†Boyd said. “I always told my wife if a new school opened up, it would be a big challenge that would interest me.“My dad opened a new school at Sugar Land (Clements) and told me it was one of the most fun experiences he had. This situation (Goose Creek Memorial) arose, so I threw my hat in.â€Now retired, Bob Boyd was head coach at Garland, Kerrville, Alice, Fort Bend Clements, Corpus Christi Ray and Harlingen, putting together a record of 116 wins, 60 losses and seven ties. He also was an assistant coach at Texas A&M and the University of Texas. Bret Boyd’s wife Brenda is a teacher and former coach. They have two children, Brandi, an English teacher and cheer coach in San Antonio, and Beau, a junior at Texas A&M-Corpus Christi.Baytown’s new coach got his start in coaching at McKinney, where he was offensive coordinator for Ron Poe. Todd Dodge joined that staff as quarterback coach, many years before Dodge made it to Southlake Carroll.Boyd has a record of 69-84 as a head coach, with his best record — 39-19, two district championships and two trips to the regional finals — coming in five seasons at Harlingen, where he took over for his father as head coach.In 1991-92, Bret Boyd was 1-19 in his first head coaching job at Brookshire Royal.“It was a down program,†he said, “but it was my first head coaching job.â€Boyd joined his dad’s staff in Harlingen in 1993 before taking over in 1996.In 2001, he took over at Ellison and his first four teams there went 8-32 before the Eagles put it together for a 20-15 record the past three seasons.That included a 16-4A district championship and trip to the regional finals in 2005. The past two years, the Eagles qualified for the playoffs as runnersup in a District 13-5A that includes Bryan, A&M Consolidated and Temple.“Killeen Ellison, when I got here seven years ago, was a lot like being at a new school,†Boyd said. “Killeen had just split from two schools to four (adding Shoemaker and Harker Heights to Killeen High and Ellison) and a lot of students here were going to the new schools.â€Memorial principal Al Richard and district athletic coordinator Tom Ed Gooden joined York, Goose Creek’s assistant superintendent for personnel, and two other administrators on the selection committee for the new coach.“Having been in the playoffs for the past three years, he has the knowledge about what it takes to build a program that is playoff-caliber,†Richard said.Gooden said “We’re extremely excited to welcome Bret Boyd to the Goose Creek CISD athletic family. Coach Boyd’s athletic experience, including his background as a head football coach and athletic coordinator, make him a perfect fit as the person to build the athletic department at Goose Creek Memorial High School.“We believe that the athletes and coaches at Goose Creek Memorial will benefit greatly from his knowledge, leadership, commitment and work ethic.â€A total of 81 men applied for the job won by Boyd, more than two dozen of them current high school head coaches.Boyd’s starting salary falls halfway between that paid this school year to Dick Olin, the 16-year head coach at Lee ($88,356) and Herb Minyard, the fourth-year head coach at Sterling ($78,355).
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