Just curious as to which schools are in need of coaches next year. I know playoffs are still in full flight but I'm still curious as to who's leaving and whos not.

Center job is opened

Chapel Hill Girls Varsity & JV should be open!!

Well, i guess there's not a lot of job openings. I would think there would be more shuffling of coaches around...

Soccer openings typically hit full swing in late April to May. There are several jobs open now on THSCA

I believe the boys job at Hallsville is opening.

It won't be long and you will see some other changes.

I think the boys job in Athens is open

i think the boys job at palestine is open.

Where's Absolon going?

I also saw that their was a job opening at Sulphur Springs.

Girls? not the boys!!!!

Neither Job at Palestine is open.

i thought it was the boys is what i was told

Has anyone heard if the Jville coach is leaving or not?

I wouldnt be suprised. It seems like they have a coaching change every year....

yeah i dont think J'ville has found the right coach ever since Rogers left them a while back! there's still potential there but not a coach that can guide them!

I agree, its been downhill since Rogers.

Where is Rogers at these days and what is he doing?

I have to agree that jacksonville hasnt been as good since rogers left. i think he is teaching but not sure.

Coach Rodgers is the High School Principle at Harlenton.

Quite a few have opened up here lately on the THSCA and TASCO websites

Chapel Hill and Athens Boys are open. Sulphur Springs Girls.
But what I love the most is the Girl's North Mesquite coach. I suppose they arent looking for a female coach cuz you have to be experienced in Football as a requirement.

Job Description: Applicants must have a vast knowledge of Soccer schemes and techniques plus general knowledge of football schemes and techniques. Soccer coaching experience preferred.

[font="Arial Black"][/font][size="4"][/size]Texas High's Girls Coach/Soccer coordinatior is open.

Texas High? Wow. Where's Roger going?

Brenham Varsity Asst/JVA coach. Goalkeeping background a plus. Teaching Field TBA. NO 2nd sport! Also, there may be some club $ on the side for training.

Lost my 1st asst to his first head coaching gig.

where did he end up going?

Magnolia West

Technically not East Texas, but in Texarkana, the Arkansas High Girls coach may be leaving, also. That leaves two girls teams in town needing a Coach.

Maybe he is immigrating across the border?

Chapel Hill Girls position is open, and we need a good coach to take over the reigns for the 2010 season!!

This is the only place I've seen the girls job posted. Even the district website doesn't specify what sport. The boys job is posted on THSCA but not the girls.

It is supposedly on the THSCA website and some others per the HS Girls Coordinator, so I don't know?? All I know is that the parents of the players are very frustrated over all of it!!! The position for the 09-10 coach has been open since last August and we should have already had a good experienced coach in place by now!!!!

Maybe they just submitted it and it hasn't cleared to the actual site yet. It's not on THSCA or TASCO, which I believe are the first 2 places coaches go to find job openings, the fields related to those openings and contacts for the app process. I just checked again and now the boys opening is no longer on the THSCA site. There is a Baseball position though.

To have a good experienced coach already in place for next year is a bit of a stretch. An experienced coach probably already had a position this year and most likely had not been applying for anything other than very big openings or new schools during the season. This is the time that resumes start flying around. Plus in order to fill a spot people have to know about it.

What is the job tied to? If it's soccer only or soccer/XC then you stand a good chance of getting a good soccer person in that area.

From what I was told it has to be a coach that teaches English, Science, or Math If I remember correctly, which pretty much limits us!! I know experienced coaches that have good teams will generally stay where they are, but sometimes good coaches are ready for a change or have to relocate for whatever reason. We just do not want to get stuck with just anyone who teaches one of those subjects that coaches another sport that will take the job or just a school employee that graciously steps up to take the job just so the girls can play like this year!! Please do not get me wrong, I am very appreciative of our coaches this year, they did a great job to have had to take over at the last minute and do as well as we did, but this is a young varsity team and the team has to grow and improve skills, attitude, and everything else that comes along with having a good winning team and all that comes along with having a GOOD coach in place!!
I have to trust in Coach Sitton and Coach Godwin that they will do whats best for the girls/team and not just think about filling a teaching position.

Girls job is up today. HD Soccer/asst XC isn't bad but the teaching field is Spanish. Not sure how tough that will be to find

They must've filled the other teaching positions I guess!?

good luck. maybe lawdog can go there. wait a minute it isn't a great program or one on the rise so he wont try.

Wow, when did I post on this forum? Yeah, thats the only places I go. Just look at Athens, started the program. Made the playoffs third year. Look at Lindale, never made the playoffs. Go figure. Your posts dont make any sense. Every coach always looks for better job. Dont know any that go out and look for the sucky job!!!!

Well done coach. You had a good year and a good team. Look forward to next years team and accomplishments.

so u r saying the chapel hill job is sucky?

i don't see a soccer ball up top so y are u posting. thought u were never going to post again unless a soccer ball was up top.

at athens your teams always got beat by a lesser opponent and then u leave and they go to regional finals. how come u don't mention jacksonville? i guess because u didn't coach us well and we underacheived every year.

lindale was getting alot better and everyone knew it long b4 u showed up and with those guys omg u should win(u just got lucky little man). look how much talent they had playing club and all u have to do is throw them out there and they will win. see how good u do after the twins are gone

no one likes immature braggers

or immature haters

Maybe tohot should except the fact that maybe Jacksonvilles players were not as good as he thinks they were! I saw the game against Greenville at Pine Tree and the players choked big time! They also had Buff there one year who is highly regarded (deservedly so) and still didnt set the world on fire. Look what has happened to the ville since dog left! And dont start that they dont have any talent stuff cause I saw them play this year and they were talented. Lindale did have talent this year but going undefeated all the way to the regional final is a awesome accomplishment that dog should be remembered for! He had talented players but pulling off that kind of season says a whole heck of alot about the job the dog did as a coach as well. Anybody who argues that is just not very SMART! I will tell you this, those who use to say things about dog or anybody else who continue to say things about him at lindale are just full of bull and are really looking SILLY!

maybe we did choke but so did lawless. jacksonville has been in the playoffs every year since he left and this year made it to the third round without coaching. what is the furthest lawdog has made it before this season with a team loaded full of players that were good before he got there?

i guess guys like DC and Josh to name a few werent that good. burrito (chebeto) has zero clue of the talent that was wasted when the dog was there. people that say jacksonville had no talent are STUPID

I sat on this for a while and stupid me for getting lured in.

Jville did have loads of talent that year. Unfortunately Jville also had a team of individuals that were too worried about themselves and on top of that there were loads of discipline issues day in and day out. Talk about frustrating. Coming to soccer almost every day and having to deal with stupid stuff that had happened during the day or the previous day instead of going out and enjoying soccer. The discipline issues didn't come from the coach. He had the best discipline system I've ever seen. He also had the most floaters that I've ever seen in 1 group. Don't get me wrong, there were/are good kids at Jville but you can't have a hand full of good ones and expect compete at the level of good, disciplined, unified teams in the playoffs. That team should have gone further but to be honest they didn't deserve it. I'd be willing to bet that the let down of the final 20 seconds wouldn't have happened to a more disciplined group. Who knows maybe Greenville had a group of players that played for the team instead of themselves and that's why they were able to work together and do what was needed to send it to the shootout.

Lawless has been a part of all categories of teams from the bottom to the top. Because he's a good coach he has spent most of the time on top. He quickly BUILT a competitive team in Athens, a place that didn't have a youth system in place until around 2000. There were a handful of kids that were coached by a parent but no system in the town. He didn't step in to a gold mine there as you say. He was quite successful in Athens before the Jville and Lindale move.

Come on man. Your trip to the 3rd round this year is less than impressive. A 1st round bye, a win over a middle of the road 3A school and then out in the 3rd round with a butt kicking. Sure be proud of the accomplishment but don't go using it as a tool to stab someone with. That's like stabbing someone with a spoon, plastic baby spoon at that.

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maybe we did choke but so did lawless. jacksonville has been in the playoffs every year since he left and this year made it to the third round without coaching. what is the furthest lawdog has made it before this season with a team loaded full of players that were good before he got there?


Iv'e read your comments several times this season about J'ville not having coaching. The coach's first year to be there,made the playoffs, had a fairly good season. So what do you mean?

Iv'e read your comments several times this season about J'ville not having coaching. The coach's first year to be there,made the playoffs, had a fairly good season. So what do you mean?
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I assure you. It wasn't the coaching that got the Tribe into the playoffs this year.
Our coach is not even a real soccer coach. He will probably be back next year since
we made the playoffs but come on, Jacksonville has alot of talent and the players aren't
developing every year because of good coaching. Alot of these kids play outside of
school and are being taught how to play by someone who actually knows the game
of soccer. I hope that we have a better season next year but just getting in the
playoffs isn't good enough for me. We need to be competitive at the next level and
I really just don't think that the Tribe is there yet. It's a long way til January.

Okay toohot, you need to shut up. I don't know who you are or where you come from but Coach Lawless is a very good coach. Heaven forbid a coach should have a good season without a past player bickering at him the entire season. Grant it, Lindale does have a bunch of good players and were very good. But do really expect a team of that caliber to just go out and play by themselves? No, Coach Lawless coached them up very well.

The coaching fraternity isn't stupid. But, MOST coaches don't realize that when push comes to shove, the common belief is that "players win games and coaches lose games".

If coaches can accept that, they will be a lot happier being coaches. The kids know what the coach does or does not bring to the team. Everyone else just thinks they know. It is not a big deal. I have been fortunate in that the VAST majority of parents have been very supportive. I am also realistic in that our record and long term success may have a small part to play in that and I am cool with that.

Here is an example. At my previous school, when I arrived they had made one play-off appearance and had one winning record in the schools history. We do the following: 15-5-2, 14-7-4, 16-7-2, 18-4-3, 18-5-1, then we go 9-7-5. After that season, the most supportive parents at my school, whose son was my best player, want me fired and the mom actually says "I want his job, I want his blood." I stayed on anyway, plenty of blood to spare.

So yeah, all you coaches and aspiring coaches, accept the fact that sometimes you will get more praise than you deserve and other times you will get more criticism than you deserve. Just go home at the end of the day, and appreciate your family and those that you know really matter at your school, the kids.

Otherwise, just quit and go to work for the IRS so that you know going in everyone hates you!

Thank you.
kramer are you reading this post?

I believe junhun comments also go for lindales program. IMO only. so you need to shut up eagle3. those kids at lindale are good becuse of the outside coaching for sure. get over it and move on

Meanwhile, Brenham is still needing a first assistant on the men's side. GK background is a plus but not mandatory. If you are interested, send a resume my way. I have not been told the teaching field yet.

elane@brenhamisd.net