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Just my opinion, but there is a reason Texas has the highest quality of sports as compared to any other state. That reason isn't because we hire "part time" coaches. The quality of the sports we enjoy comes from the caliber of coaches we have here. High school sports stand on the shoulders of men and women who dedicated countless hours beyond asked of them to ensure kids are taken care of. It is very apparent that this is lost on many, who cannot appreciate what it takes to really build kids up to be the best versions of themselves, beyond just athletics.

Dang, the enemy is watching! Everyone look busy!

He back peddling because he was wrong.

I am at a small 2A. Coach four sports (2 at one time in the fall) Teach 3 grade levels. Senior sponsor. Haven’t coached football in awhile but I literally have coached XC at the same time as football or volleyball for almost my entire career at more than one school. It can be rough but I need to hang in 3 more years till my youngest graduates. I don’t have a whole lot of sympathy for the big school guys doing 1 or 2 sports and maybe teaching 1 subject. In the fall my day starts before 6 and I leave school whenever my kid gets out of football so probably 8:00 pm. I encourage people to take it easy and understand that different jobs require different hours/commitments. With that said, you can never convince me that hiring part time contract guys will work here in Texas. It’s one of the things that sets us apart from every other state.

OMG--Somone found Twitter and Youtube in the same month--we are all doomed.

6:00 am-8pm monday-wednesday - 42 hrs 6:am-10 Pm (quick home game) Thursday-16 hrs 6:am-12am Away game- 18 hrs That Alone is 76 hours Then weekends lets say quick and do 12 hrs total for the weekend that's 88 hours. Its real, Outsiders wont get it.

Some places are better than others when it comes to the hours. I have worked 90 hour weeks. I have worked 60 hour weeks. I have been a part of bad teams. I have been a part of good teams. The fact is this...80-100 hours in a week is not something that is just made up. You can think we are lying if you want...that is your choice. However, if your kid is ever a part of a program that has good coaches who are doing everything they can to help your kid have success then I hope you appreciate them. I hope you don't take for granted all that they do, despite the fact that some of you guys think we are just making stuff up.

I don't see it, DFW bias. Tyler looks good. But I do think Forney could be better than we think. Meaning, I don't see them finishing at the bottom of this district. They may not necessarily make playoffs (everybody can't get in) but I bet they take out at least one MISD team and give Lufkin a game.

Stanford being offered makes that the 6th player on Tyler High's roster with a D1 offer. This district is crazy talented....

Maybe they figured out the American people are keeping an eye on them, and we're not as stupid as they might think we are. Link to AP article, for those interested: https://apnews.com/article/government-and-politics-national-security-83c67505703c02b0de154b21abd5c569

Tyler High 6’4 DE Jace Sanford Picks up his first D1 offer from Arkansas State. Congrats! He will be opposite of 6’6 DE Ashtin Watkins who also has multiple D1 Offers including TCU, etc. This is probably one of best D Lines for tyler in a long time.

Ya know, it's actually amazing to me how much education I got after I was out of school. How much insight and education people can get just from certain books, and by reading/researching things online. It's amazing.

when I moved from coaching to principal I was amazed at how much free time I had--- I didn't know that the sun actually could be shining when I went home or that there was such a thing as off days on the weekends. I have actually got to go to birthday parties for my grandkids, class parties, ball games, take them fishing, and see them take their first steps etc...

you can also add 2-3 hours on thursday for coaches at small schools 3 games on thursday night--lucky to get out of fieldhouse by midnight

I forget how many smaller schools are in ETX... I am at a school where we have 22 coaches on staff. Do we need that many? Probably not. But it helps spread some of that out. I remember when I worked for the hospital in Linden, I used to go out to LK and their coaching staff was essentially the maintenance staff for the entire school. It was wild.

Race based mass shooter. Fyi, that's Micah Johnson the Dallas shooter

Lancaster lost key players but, they'll still be a playoff team with their usual talent and speed. How good they are will ultimately depend on how well they replace Rice at QB....but I see them and Tyler fighting for that 2nd spot. McNorth is lurking though. Like Longview and Tyler, Lancaster has a talented secondary. 3 in the secondary with D1 offers. This is an I-20 South Dallas County program, so you know they've had transfers: SR RB Kyson Brown (5'11 190) - 12 DI offers, transferred from Tupelo, MS Gerald (SR) and Kewan (JR) Lacy - brothers who transferred from Ft. Worth Nolan. Gerald (S) has 7 D1 offers, Kewan (RB) has 10 D1 offers.

Dude, that's what we work, 80-100 aa week during season.

I will break it down for you like this. Monday and Tuesday - 14 hours In the locker room at 3:45, on the field at 4, practice starts at 4:15, off the field at 7:15. Locker room empty and all kids left the premises b by 7:45. Put in laundry and watch practice film, flip laundry, discuss personnel and scheme and plan tomorrows practice, out of the field house by 8:45. Me personally, I go home and take care of what is left to do at home after my wife has taken care of the majority of the household chores. After everyone is in bed, I watch at least another hour of two of film. Wednesday - 7 hours In the locker room at 3:45, on the field at 4, practice starts at 4:15, off the field at 6:15. Locker room empty and all kids left the premises b by 6:45. Put in laundry and paint the game field. Watch practice film, flip laundry, discuss personnel and scheme. Out oft he field house at 8:45. Me personally, I go home and take care of what is left to do at home after my wife has taken care of the majority of the household chores. After everyone is in bed, I watch at least another hour of two of film. Thursday - Home 5 hours - Road - 6-7 Home game, in the locker room at 3:45 out of the field house after game, locker room supervision, laundry by 8:45. Road game add a minimum of an hour sometimes 2. Friday - 9 hours - 3:45 - 1 am - after inputting film and data. Saturday - 8-3 = 7 hours + an hour or 2 watching film at home Sunday - 12-6 = 6 hours + an hour or two watching film at home So an minimum of 50 hours spent outside the regular school day in very normal for me. Now you can remove an hour or 2 hours a day for some coaches, but you are still talking about an extra 40 hours a week on top of working a 40 hour a week job. Not many individuals going to sign up for that for a $3,000 a year stipend.

He Pretty much spitting non sense like usual

I've been on both sides of the "grind" Working for a school in the metroplex as a JH coach was 6:30 in the morning to 6:00 at night during the week. Thursdays extend that to 9. Fridays extend it to when film and laundry was done which could be anywhere from 1 to 3. Get back up there at 8 for film til 12 and again on sunday from 3 to around 8. Brutal but learned a lot from a top quality program. My next job was the same during the week except now varsity level. Thursdays the same. Fridays pretty much the same, usually done by 1 at the latest though. Saturdays 8-4 and sundays were optional which I went anyways because I'm a go getter. 10 to around 5. Cluster most of the times. Next job was the easiest I've done. First period athletics so get there 7:15 and done with the day by 6:30. Thursday is the same. Fridays the same but usually got out around 12-1. Didnt work from the office on Saturday at all but watched film all day and had to be ready for sunday. Sunday came in after church and got the gameplan going. Early in the season it would be around 6 when we left, by the end it was closer to 4 since we had a pretty good bead on what we had and wanted to do. Also had the most success during this job as well. Current job. We hit it running at 7 and dont go home til 7 during the week. Thursdays are much easier, dont have to go to JH athletics so get there around 8 and get done same as all the others. Fridays same arrival time but tend to get out around 1. Saturday get there at 9 out by 1. Sunday get there at 1 leave by 7. Lots of success here as well. There are many ways to skin a cat. All require quite a bit of time. Depends on the staff, kids you got, and who the HC is. My brother, who also coaches, has been under a coach who required 12 hour days....EVERYDAY! So when you get into those thursdays and fridays you are looking at 80+ hours. All for 3 wins a year. This is more common than you think BUT that line of thinking is starting to fade unless you have HCs that grew up in that system.

When you say "fixins" does that mean you have hushpuppies, and did you purchase them or make them yourself. I went to a fish fry Saturday, and they had purchased their hushpuppies--don't get me wrong, they were good--but nothing beat a little jalapeno in a hushpuppy batter.

Because they have the backing of the MSM. All those liberal nutjobs wanna back a group that can help them get what they want. just 2 classes of people. The Elite and the controlled. They can do it over the next generation, since they can't get all us old folks just yet, but when we are gone, who is going to carry the buckets, not any of the younger generations, they love to live off the government. So the America we learned about, loved, grew to become independent--will only be in a history book--if any can make it out of the liberal re-write.

Bro just let it go and focus on yourself my guy..

I hear ya. Don't forget about the weekend and before school. Some kids can't lift after school because of work so some coaches show up at 6:00 AM to open the weight room for those kids to have an opportunity to get extra work in. I will say...not all coaches do that. But if you care about kids you are going to make it work for them. You're trying to make it seem as if we are blowing it out of proportion...I would love to hear your opinion if you were able to shadow a football coach for one week during the season...

I saw $4.29 this morning where I live, and the Walmart had it at $4.39.

Man, this ship has ️! MOVE ON

Wrong...... https://www.practicalparadigms.com/blog-content/2019/1/4/the-relationship-between-participation-in-high-school-sports-and-career-success

Thought it was too good to be true..... Anyway, youve never coached so you have absolutely ZERO idea of what coaches do.......

Someone who has never coached will never understand.......

Probably half his voters too ....

Dude, read the last sentence of this article

I know plenty small school staffs that make perennial runs that might work 10 hours on the weekends. All about splitting up jobs and handling your own business. Also, for you educators that are posting during school hours, how are you justified in calling "teaching" a 40 hr work week when you're posting on smoaky? Quit crying about the job. Also, stop explaining the job to me. It's not something I don't know about. Furthermore, I agree on the topic. Seems like just hiring a decent human being is a hard job, much less a good coach and someone that handles themselves professionally in the classroom. I'm not sure where this profession is heading, but if admin doesn't start standing up to kids and parents, the middle man(teachers and coaches), will become non existent. If high school sports are left up to the parents to run, it'll be a disaster. Actually, it'll be exactly like little league, peewee, and little dribblers. So if you want parents helping out, be careful what you wish for. Not in any remote case would I be in favor of a parent helping, unless they played professionally. What really gets under my skin is the group of high school coaches that think because they are high school coaches, they immediately know more than everyone else. Anyone can be a high school coach guys. Every person in the world is a bachelor's degree and iTeach Texas away from doing it. Head coach? Prooooooobably not. Successful coach? Proooooooooobably not. Be humble, the world needs more of it.

The Texas Quote of the Day: "Money is like manure. If you spread it around, it does a lot of good. But if you pile it up in one place, it stinks like hell." ---- Clint Murchison, Sr., oil magnate, founder of Southern Union Gas, born in Tyler, Texas in 1895

This is a pretty standard schedule. You can cut some time out in certain areas. Rotate laundry duty, locker room duty. More people are going to turf fields so might not have to paint. (I actually know of some coaches that a turf field is a must in looking for jobs for the extra time alone.) Maybe shave some time if your coordinators are making assistants do all the grunt work of laundry by themselves. While time saving that never leads to a good staff cohesion, and most small schools don't have "lead assistants". They just do everything. Play action has explained a ton but I'll dive into the standard weekend schedule. Friday: Spot on by Play action. Get the kids home. Get them out. Get laundry soaked and started. Film has to upload, clips have to be cut together. Film part is a 1 person job but its probably ready to go by midnight to 1. Saturday: Previous games film has to be graded and marked up. If kids are coming in on Saturday to watch it, that has to be done before. So typically sometime between 1AM and 9AM the film is ready to go. Approximately a 2 hour process. Maybe more maybe less depending on position and how the night went. So stay up until 3 or get to work 6 hours later. Lift, recovery run, and go over film with players gone between 11-12. From 12-2 its time to look at the next opponent. Data has to be put in to the clips and a scouting report made. Reports are ran film is studied. Go home find some time to watch film on your own to be ready to make a game plan the next day. Sunday: Meet after church and lunch, typically 2. Discuss what is being seen in the opponent. Formulate game plan. Does anything need to be changed? Anything new installed? How will they adjust to us how do we have to adjust to them? By 3 hopefully your plan is set now practice plan for the week. Drills, adjustments, plays. Draw up cards for your scout team to get aligned right. All of the offenses run plays. All of their pass plays. All of the defenses alignments. Final scouting report ready to be sent to the kids on Sunday or Monday. Leave when the jobs done. This is about as standard as it gets. More staffs are working from home on Saturday at the expense of not bringing the kids up. Just like before, you can maybe shave a couple hours off but not much. Keep in mind this is about as efficient as it gets for an average size staff. Smaller staffs will pull more weight.

I think it would depend on the size of your staff. 5-8 football coaches on staff to run 7-12 football is all hands on deck. As for why we work 16-20 hours on Saturday/Sunday is up the the head FB coach. Going 4 rounds deep to winning a state championship every year is worth it to me. But thats just me.

We know them all too well. No beer gut comments here!

You a lefty that has guns

Hi @RHSeaglefan , just wanted to say hello and you might think about checking your own house before you start throwing stones. At least 4 fights in Rusk this week alone and a starter booted off the baseball team….. Generally my rule is that if you can’t say something nice, keep your mouth shut. I know not everyone in this day and age of the keyboard warriors can do that. I try. I don’t generally talk about family business/drama on social media…..that’s handled in house where it belongs. Yes, there have been some issues at Alto HS but better days ahead. Being in portable buildings for 3 years has been a challenge. Not many other schools can relate. Kids having to travel from that portable campus through the parking lot to cafeteria, ag building, field house, gym, library. It’s been kind of a logistical nightmare with everyone spread all over, battling the elements and having more freedoms than are normal. We did the best we could do under the circumstances. We dedicated our new high school building on Tuesday and kids are finally HOME in our brand new, state-of-the-art facility starting tomorrow (Monday). This is an incredible positive. And what a night of celebration we had Tuesday with close to 1,000 folks in attendance! Our superintendent, who has been in the district for 25+ years, is a hero. A few folks (very few…a handful actually) have bashed her, but she has absolutely handled these situations (from tornadoes to death to public forums) with grace, love, and determination along the hard road. She did not have to schedule any forums at all. There are public meetings once a month in the form of board meetings and do you know how many folks have spoken in community comments prior to the forums? The answer is zero this year. In the last 10 years, there have been 5 times when someone has spoken. And the majority of those were POSITIVE comments. She scheduled forums to LISTEN to the concerns. She had 3 forums, one for each campus for convenience sake….not because things were so bad that it took 3 forums. Really, everything that was said could’ve been said at one forum in one night. Basically the same couple people spoke at each forum. The news people picked up the story (I’m sure they got a call) after the first one and ran with it, casting the district in the worst possible light. That’s what the news does. It’s how they generate interest and get clicks on their sites. You mentioned that “about 100 kids from the entire district have transferred out to Rusk, Wells, ext., hence the drop to small 2A.” I checked on that and you are wrong. 30 kids total district wide are transfers OUT (including home schoolers) while 29 kids total are transfers IN. I hate that any kid would transfer out because we have a great school district but that is a far cry from the 100 you state. I’m excited about our future. As was stated at our dedication ceremony last week, our future is now in the form of this beautiful new facility. We thoroughly enjoyed celebrating our rich history and tradition last week, and now we look to our future….ALTOgether. The athletic department launched the #goldstandard meeting the same night and the highest expectations have been set. Great days ahead for sure! We also dedicated the new coliseum and the court was named after Vonte: the Devonte Mumphrey Memorial Court. How fitting!! AND his dad got to sink the first free throw that night. It was amazing and special to celebrate Vonte’s memory and our new facility. Here are a few links about our dedication to check out! Good to see that news stations do POSITIVE features also! https://www.ktre.com/2022/05/11/alto-isd-dedicates-new-buildings-wake-devastating-tornado/ https://www.ketk.com/news/local-news/alto-isd-unveils-new-buildings-names-basketball-court-after-student-who-passed-away/ https://www.cbs19.tv/article/news/local/alto-community-continues-to-remember-high-school-basketball-player/501-d53a139c-2136-472b-b999-3ae0020149ad https://www.jacksonvilleprogress.com/news/the-wait-is-over-alto-isd-dedicates-3-new-school-buildings/article_e78a14dc-d0c9-11ec-afa4-af35d0a223c7.html?utm_campaign=blox&utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=social&fbclid=IwAR1UDDXobLEFMIouw5CWVnEUXgstG8KH8XPt8rGhyvfGrbr6Toz9YpLxrQc

Hebrews 13:8 English Standard Version 8 Jesus Christ is the same yesterday and today and forever Malachi 3:6 English Standard Version Robbing God 6 “For I the Lord do not change; therefore you, O children of Jacob, are not consumed.

You need to overcome your denominational indoctrination and read the book of Hebrews on your own.........

This is SO much more interesting than showing kirt he is a liberal......

God prohibited the murder of innocents....God commanded the execution of the guilty......

Dimwit logic you can't be against abortion and be for the death penalty, he fails to see one is innocent and one is guilty