PAISD’s football job won’t require master’s degree

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PAISD’s football job won’t require master’s degree

Bob West column for Sunday, Dec 21

The Port Arthur News

For those who may be wondering, the Port Arthur Independent School District, unlike the Port Neches-Groves ISD, is not requiring its new football coach to come armed with a master’s degree. The PA approach seems to make a lot of sense, if your purpose is to interview rather than eliminate quality coaches interested in the job. It was noted in this space last week that Dallas Cowboys coach Wade Phillips would not be able to apply at PN-G because of the master’s requirement. Further research this week added the names of Jimmy Johnson, with his national championship and two Super Bowl rings, and Todd Dodge, with four Texas high school state championship rings, as highly successful coaches who wouldn’t be academically qualified to get in the door of the PNGISD administration building . . . Johnson, by the way, said in a radio interview with Dan Patrick, that he thinks Phillips’ job in Dallas is secure, even if the Cowboys don’t make the playoffs. JJ, in a burst of simple common sense that seems to evade the quick-draw Metroplex media, and some of the clueless talking heads at ESPN, pointed out that the strength of the Cowboys has become their defense. It was his opinion that Jerry Jones wouldn’t want to lose the edge of having a strong, in-sync defense, by changing coaches. Hopefully, he’s not giving Jethro too much credit for being able to make a logical evaluation when it comes to coaching.

[Mr. Buddy Garrity]

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[NDNWarrior]

I thought the article was supposed to be about PAISD not requiring a Masters degree for the Memorial coach.  I think West used this as an excuse to slam PNG.  I swear, it's beginning to be hard to tell the difference between Bob West and Tom Halliburton..."birds of a feather, flock together!"  geesh! : : :

[tvc184]

I thought the article was supposed to be about PAISD not requiring a Masters degree for the Memorial coach.  I think West used this as an excuse to slam PNG.  I swear, it's beginning to be hard to tell the difference between Bob West and Tom Halliburton..."birds of a feather, flock together!"  geesh! : : :

The article wasn't about anything in particular and is one paragraph from West's weekly Sunday diatribe. It is obvious that he was slamming the degree requirement but he wasn't writing an article about Memorial. It was just a musing at PNG's expense. I thought it was a good point.....  as probably do a majority of the people in and outside of PNG.