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4. 10 years of high school coaching experience. Took a perennial 0-10,1-9,2-10 program and rebuilt it from the ground up. I bring stability to the program. I don’t move around. Coming from coaching in a community that has almost no youth football. Being able to teach the game and how to play it safely to the first year player as well as the seasoned player. 5. I know a lot of coaches from being in the high school game for many years. I have built relationships with a lot of coaches at every level. I understand what it takes to coach a football team effectively. How to mix personalities and coaching assets for the betterment of the program. I would interview the past coaching staff to see what they could bring to the table. What they thought about the previous administration. Good and bad and what they thought could be done to improve it. I would also research the program from the outside. See what others thought of it. Its strengths and weaknesses. On and off the field. All of those would be a factor in the staff I would hire. 6. we work 4 days a week in the offseason. I encourage players to participate in other sports. The advantages of being a multi sport athlete help with recruiting as well as work the body in different ways. Not all schools can have 4 day a week workouts because of player culture and outside influences. Would have to study that and see if it could be changed. But no matter what we would still work out physically and mentally with the kids who could participate. And hope that a little peer pressure and raising expectations can increase attendance. 7. fundraising. That totally depends on the schools culture and whether there is a booster club or not. In some schools raising 50k a season is easy. In others raising 5k is an issue. There are so many avenues to fundraising it would be a studied decision based on the aforementioned factors. But we would set lofty goals and strive to achieve them. While trying to always give something back to the players from their efforts in fundraising (cloth etc) 8. 10 years of coaching contacts at the next level. I have built relationships with numerous programs. Not trying to oversell an athlete to a higher program that they can be successful at. In my 9 years at my last school EVERY player who was looking to play at the next lever received an offer. Not necessarily the d1 offer they thought they deserved. But a good fit academically, athletically and financially. there is more that that even. But that’s a quick synopsis of my answers.

I have moved on. That being said. When you put 9 years of your life into something you kinda become attached to it. I’ll still be working there. Have to see it and live it daily. If you truly can’t understand that. It was more than just a job.

I will say this for myself. I am a coach who had to find a way to teach. In my opinion you must be on campus to be an effective head coach. You need to be able to mingle, see the students, recruit the halls. Be there for the students in their time of need. If you are not a teacher or a district employee. How can you be in the halls all day. I teach Auto shop. Im not a college educated educator, who has never been outside the walls. I have seen what reality looks like. I have coached kids from 4years old up. I have dedicated my life to coaching. I really enjoy teaching automotive technology to my students. But the main reason I am there is to be a coach! Unfortunately it also hampers my ability to coach at every school. Only a very few have automotive. But to answer the question originally asked. If I was an AD. What would I look for in a head coach. 1. Why did you leave your previous job? (If this is your first time as a head coach, why do you think you are ready to make that leap. This will involve a whole different set of added questions) (is this an upward career move? Were you fired? why? ) 2. How long were you at your previous job? (do you move around a lot. Can I count on you staying to build/rebuild a program. Or will you be jumping ship for the next latest greatest. Towards your career advancement) 3. What is your vision for this program? (Have you done your research, Do you know the community, do you know the accolades and the pitfalls of the program. Demographics, are these kids you can work with and make successful? ) 4. What do you bring to the table? (What sets you apart from all other applicants, What skills or accolades do you have that would make you the best candidate for the job?) 5. Can you assemble a staff? ( who do you know, what is your plan to put coaches in place. Cannot be just rehire the previous staff. But retaining some or all of them could be a benefit if they are good at what they do! 6. How do you handle off season work outs? (what was the prior participation, can you maintain or improve the participation? How will you achieve that? ) 7. fundraising!, program budget. (if the coach doesn't ask these questions there may be a big problem, As we all know football programs are not funded by districts, What is your plan, past experience and researched goals for the new program. ) 8. Recruiting? ( what have you done, college contacts? how many kids from your previous place obtained scholarships? ) I will continue to edit this post as more thoughts come to mind

So the Poinciana head coach job goes to Tayron Mallard. 25 years old. He was a high school OC for 6 games. This was his first full season as a high school football coach. He volunteered the year before part time. No disrespect to him. But I fail to see how he is ready to take on a high school football program as a head coach. In my humble opinion, the inner workings of a football program go so much deeper than the on field part. He is an alumni and I was told that he knew the kids and that was the reason for his hire. Again, absolutely no disrespect to him. I truly hope he is successful in continuing what I had started.

Can anyone actually tell me what was decided? From what I got was. 7 classes + 1 rural. And all teams are required to play district games. There was no mention of how many weeks. Will it be a 8 game over 9 weeks. And 2 week district playoffs and everyone else is left to scramble to fill in their last 2 games. Or is it 10 games over 11 weeks and districts like now. So if this was supposed to let coaches schedule games. I feel something is still missing. Or I just missed it within all of the cross discussions they were having

Much appreciated. It was a good run cut too short, unfortunately! Like I said people make decisions. I can only comply. I do not hang my head in shame as I still truly feel I did nothing that should have cost me the job. I did fight for my players with administration. I will never back down when it is for the good of the kid. After all thats what its all about.

Im going to be at that game.! looks to be a good one

Done, Thanks

I just hope what I did there doesn't go to waste. I have moved on to the next chapter. Gave everything I could to that program. Now time to spend that same effort at a place where I will hopefully be appreciated.

Add Poinciana to that list!

A couple of years ago I had a kid get jumped by a player, 5-6 of the opposing teams players ran on the field without helmets, from their sideline to help beat up our player. Guess who was the only player to receive a penalty. Ours, he got 6 weeks for fighting. The official who threw the flag has been banned from officiating at our school! Well their school now! I even warned the white cap before this happened that the game was about to get out of control and he needed to do something about it.

https://www.aroundosceola.com/sports/beeken-removed-poinciana-football-coach The Lord did find me a place to go! with Brad Lord at Southlake! Go EAGLES!

Already landed on my feet. In less than 4 hours I found a new home! Wont be the head coach, but titles do not mean much to me anyway. I know I can make a difference where ill be coaching.

Today I was called in the office and was basically told " we want the program to head in a different direction" AKA your Fired! I am not sure what direction that is? When I came to Poinciana this was a 0-10, 1-9, 2-8 program with kids always getting in trouble, grades were poor on average. Since I took over the program we went 4-6 my 1st season, best record since 2000. Covid happened still went 3-6 all the while managing to keep a JV program, where other schools couldnt. my 3rd year was the trying one. We had player issues, had to remove all of our seniors and went 1-9. Last season on the back of that we rebooted and set every record in school history. From points scored, to wins in a season, points against, Being the first head coach to ever stay there after the 3rd season. This year while being a little rocky we had our DC quit after week 2, other coaches stepped up and filled in the voids. We only went 4-6 this year also beating Liberty for the second year in a row, Something no other coach had done there. (we were also the first to beat Liberty). We also have raised the teams GPA to above a 3.0 and are keeping kids out of trouble. While Im not going to air out dirty laundry, because I could do a lot of that. I will say that I feel the true reason i was let go was I refuse to be a puppet and just follow along with everything. I fight for the kids and what I feel is right. I gave that school 9 years, planned on staying for a long time in the future. We see what loyalty has to do with things. Added: By no means am I saying that everything I did was right. But everything I did was in my opinion for the betterment of the program. Did I make mistakes, sure, but who doesnt. Truly did not feel any mistakes I made were so egregious that it should have cost me the job.

This is my uneducated understanding of what I think I read. Please help me with clarification. 1. Fhsaa will assign districts in 7 classes and 1 rural 2. teams in each district are not required to play each other 3. Fhsaa will use power rankings between the teams in each district to determine which 2 teams will play for the district championship. 4. teams would only schedule 9 games and have to wait to see who their week 11 opponent will be, then scramble to get a game if they arent chosen for playoffs. How is that going to look? If what I understand above is correct, These are my assumptions or questions about this; 1. scheduling one or 2 top tier teams and loosing to them will keep your rankings high as opposed to playing middle of the road teams and beating them. 2. Teams with a weak schedule, could go 10-0 and not be considered for playoffs 3. teams with an average schedule could go 10-0 and not make the playoffs, where a team could schedule all top 10 type teams and loose to them and have a better shot? 4. how does this create parity? 5. Are the districts going to be announced early enough, so when scheduling is to be done this can be taken into account. As I was already working on my next season schedule. That way teams have a choice on who they play in and out of district, if they so choose? 6. this basically does away with independents. I would only think SSAC teams would opt out. 7. What happens if a team plays other teams in their district and beats them, but ends up with a lower power ranking. who then is the contender, head to head or power ranking? I may have more questions, but this is my understanding as I read it. I could have read it wrong as well. Thanks for helping me understand.