Jump to content

Daytona Mainland names new head coach


Dan in Daytona

Recommended Posts

Nice hometown hire. Travis is a fine young man and brings with him a large supportive family with longtime area roots. With the current "free for all" in attracting athletes to high school teams this is a win win for the Mainland Buccaneers. This train just picked up the pace...

 

Roland set to become Mainland coach

Chris Boyle

Daytona Beach News-Journal USA TODAY NETWORK

Travis Roland decided to return home — the all-time single-season tackle leader in Mainland High history is now the program's head coach.

Roland, who guided Flagler Palm Coast to the playoffs in each of his four seasons in charge, accepted the position, Roland and Mainland Principal Joseph Castelli confirmed Friday.

Roland departs FPC with a 28-12 record, including the school's first undefeated regular season in history (2017).

'This has been really hard,' said Roland, who said he fielded hundreds of calls and texts from friends and family members since the job came open. 'I love Mainland, but I love FPC, too. They gave me the ability to expand and expose. I was able to expand who I was as a person, as a coach, as a parent.

'By that expansion, by going up there, I was able to get the exposure of, 'Mainland's defenses were good, but Travis can run an entire football team.' I will forever be grateful to (former Principal) Dusty Sims, (Athletic Director Steve) DeAugustino for giving me the opportunity when they didn't have to.'

Mainland has had just three head coaches in the last three decades. Scott Wilson, who held the position for 11 years, decided to step down on March 31 . Roland worked as a defensive assistant under Wilson prior to accepting the opening at FPC in December 2016.

Castelli sought to quickly fill the void, labeling it as a 'priority' to have a permanent coach in place by the time

See MAINLAND, Page 4B

ajax-request.php?val=Image_0.jpg&action=loadImage&type=Image&pSetup=daytonanewsjournal_live20160717&issue=20210410&crc=dtbbrd_newsjournal_04-10-2021_b_b_001.pdf.0&edition=News%20Journal&mtime=528A1C8B&paperImage=daytonanewsjournalzoom_in.png

Travis Roland guided Flagler Palm Coast to the playoffs in each of his four seasons in charge. On Friday, he accepted the head coaching position at his alma mater, Mainland High. NIGEL COOK/NEWS-JOURNAL

 


Mainland

Continued from Page 1B

spring football practices begin — as early as April 26. He held interviews with 'a few' candidates early this week, but Roland emerged as the clear choice.

'Everyone around the school that I've been able to talk to, everyone that's affiliated with the school that I have been able to talk to, speaks the world of him and is excited for him to come back home and to use his leadership to make the school that much greater,' Castelli said. 'It was an exciting time as it unfolded, but, man, I'm a really happy principal today.'

Roland captained the Bucs to their lone state championship in 2003, making 217 tackles along the way.

For his high school career, he recorded 519 total tackles, 50 tackles for loss and six interceptions, earning a spot in The News-Journal's Gridiron Greats list of the Volusia-Flagler's 25 best players of all time.

'I was talking to my wife last night and said, 'What person wouldn't want to go back to their school and be the head coach?' said Thomas Roland, Travis' father and the longtime commissioner of the Daytona Beach Buccaneers Pop Warner football program.

'When you get that call and that opportunity to come home, you might not get that opportunity again. I'm overwhelmed and so proud to see where he's sitting right now.'

Roland built a playoff streak at FPC, and he inherits another one at Mainland — albeit significantly longer.

The Bucs have qualified for the postseason for 27 consecutive years, finishing the 2020 campaign with an 8-2 record and a spot in the Region 1-6A semifinals. Mainland defeated Gainesville and Matanzas in playoff contests away from home.

This year could present the biggest challenge yet for the Bucs to keep the streak alive. They were drawn into District 6-6A last month with reigning state runner-up Lake Minneola and 2019 Class 5A runner-up Orlando Jones, as well as Groveland South Lake and New Smyrna Beach.

'I've played in state championship games, coached in third- and fourthround games against the eventual champs. What is pressure? I've played in big games, and most of this staff has been in big games,' Roland said. 'It is what it is, and Mainland is going to be Mainland. We'll line it up and play football. There's no pressure there.'

Link to comment
Share on other sites


On 4/10/2021 at 7:58 AM, Dan in Daytona said:

Nice hometown hire. Travis is a fine young man and brings with him a large supportive family with longtime area roots. With the current "free for all" in attracting athletes to high school teams this is a win win for the Mainland Buccaneers. This train just picked up the pace...

 

Roland set to become Mainland coach

Chris Boyle

Daytona Beach News-Journal USA TODAY NETWORK

Travis Roland decided to return home — the all-time single-season tackle leader in Mainland High history is now the program's head coach.

Roland, who guided Flagler Palm Coast to the playoffs in each of his four seasons in charge, accepted the position, Roland and Mainland Principal Joseph Castelli confirmed Friday.

Roland departs FPC with a 28-12 record, including the school's first undefeated regular season in history (2017).

'This has been really hard,' said Roland, who said he fielded hundreds of calls and texts from friends and family members since the job came open. 'I love Mainland, but I love FPC, too. They gave me the ability to expand and expose. I was able to expand who I was as a person, as a coach, as a parent.

'By that expansion, by going up there, I was able to get the exposure of, 'Mainland's defenses were good, but Travis can run an entire football team.' I will forever be grateful to (former Principal) Dusty Sims, (Athletic Director Steve) DeAugustino for giving me the opportunity when they didn't have to.'

Mainland has had just three head coaches in the last three decades. Scott Wilson, who held the position for 11 years, decided to step down on March 31 . Roland worked as a defensive assistant under Wilson prior to accepting the opening at FPC in December 2016.

Castelli sought to quickly fill the void, labeling it as a 'priority' to have a permanent coach in place by the time

See MAINLAND, Page 4B

ajax-request.php?val=Image_0.jpg&action=loadImage&type=Image&pSetup=daytonanewsjournal_live20160717&issue=20210410&crc=dtbbrd_newsjournal_04-10-2021_b_b_001.pdf.0&edition=News%20Journal&mtime=528A1C8B&paperImage=daytonanewsjournalzoom_in.png

Travis Roland guided Flagler Palm Coast to the playoffs in each of his four seasons in charge. On Friday, he accepted the head coaching position at his alma mater, Mainland High. NIGEL COOK/NEWS-JOURNAL

 


Mainland

Continued from Page 1B

spring football practices begin — as early as April 26. He held interviews with 'a few' candidates early this week, but Roland emerged as the clear choice.

'Everyone around the school that I've been able to talk to, everyone that's affiliated with the school that I have been able to talk to, speaks the world of him and is excited for him to come back home and to use his leadership to make the school that much greater,' Castelli said. 'It was an exciting time as it unfolded, but, man, I'm a really happy principal today.'

Roland captained the Bucs to their lone state championship in 2003, making 217 tackles along the way.

For his high school career, he recorded 519 total tackles, 50 tackles for loss and six interceptions, earning a spot in The News-Journal's Gridiron Greats list of the Volusia-Flagler's 25 best players of all time.

'I was talking to my wife last night and said, 'What person wouldn't want to go back to their school and be the head coach?' said Thomas Roland, Travis' father and the longtime commissioner of the Daytona Beach Buccaneers Pop Warner football program.

'When you get that call and that opportunity to come home, you might not get that opportunity again. I'm overwhelmed and so proud to see where he's sitting right now.'

Roland built a playoff streak at FPC, and he inherits another one at Mainland — albeit significantly longer.

The Bucs have qualified for the postseason for 27 consecutive years, finishing the 2020 campaign with an 8-2 record and a spot in the Region 1-6A semifinals. Mainland defeated Gainesville and Matanzas in playoff contests away from home.

This year could present the biggest challenge yet for the Bucs to keep the streak alive. They were drawn into District 6-6A last month with reigning state runner-up Lake Minneola and 2019 Class 5A runner-up Orlando Jones, as well as Groveland South Lake and New Smyrna Beach.

'I've played in state championship games, coached in third- and fourthround games against the eventual champs. What is pressure? I've played in big games, and most of this staff has been in big games,' Roland said. 'It is what it is, and Mainland is going to be Mainland. We'll line it up and play football. There's no pressure there.'

Dan, do you plan on attending Mainland football games once again this year? 

Link to comment
Share on other sites

New curve ball......Port Orange Atlantic High School ( 4.5 miles driving distance from Mainland High ) just hired Jerrime "Squatty" Bell (Mainland '02 grad) as their new head football coach. He is Travis Roland's 1st cousin. Travis's dad and Jerrime's mom are bother and sister. Coach Bell has been at Treasure Coast High in Port St Lucie for more then 10 yrs. with his other 1st cousin Antwuan Wyatt. Antwuan is the son of Alvin "Shine" Wyatt an NFL player and longtime Bethune-Cookman star and head coach. So in essence the athletically gifted clan of Bell's, Roland's, and Wyatt's, have been severed. And we thought Mainland's feeder system was headed trowards the stratosphere unobstructed. Touche Atlantic High. Great hire, and a great person in coach Jerrime Bell. Let the "Family Feud" begin.   :)  

Link to comment
Share on other sites

On 4/11/2021 at 10:25 PM, Jambun82 said:

Dan, do you plan on attending Mainland football games once again this year? 

Well Jam, that's still to be determined. I've currently been on a self-imposed two year hiatus. From the start of the 2000 season though the 2018 season I missed two Mainland games. That's home and AWAY. One was a Monday rescheduled game (Bartram Trail) the other at Deltona. I flew to Cleveland and drove to Gwinnett,Ga and almost two hundred more by car or truck. I just got burned out. At some venues the continuous game streak was more important to me then the game itself.  And that should never be the case. 

Link to comment
Share on other sites

14 hours ago, Dan in Daytona said:

Well Jam, that's still to be determined. I've currently been on a self-imposed two year hiatus. From the start of the 2000 season though the 2018 season I missed two Mainland games. That's home and AWAY. One was a Monday rescheduled game (Bartram Trail) the other at Deltona. I flew to Cleveland and drove to Gwinnett,Ga and almost two hundred more by car or truck. I just got burned out. At some venues the continuous game streak was more important to me then the game itself.  And that should never be the case. 

All right, that reads good. 

Link to comment
Share on other sites

Join the conversation

You can post now and register later. If you have an account, sign in now to post with your account.

Guest
Reply to this topic...

×   Pasted as rich text.   Paste as plain text instead

  Only 75 emoji are allowed.

×   Your link has been automatically embedded.   Display as a link instead

×   Your previous content has been restored.   Clear editor

×   You cannot paste images directly. Upload or insert images from URL.

Loading...


  • Posts

    • Unions want their members compensated. Districts are slow to compensate teachers and coaches, period. Because ultimately coaches/sponsors are extracurriculars, and not the primary focus of the district despite what some on this board would have you believe. Make it easy, ask your local principal how many teaching openings they have this year in their faculty, ask how much turnover will exist in their ranks this summer, and when they replace them, how many will be highly qualified teachers. Ask the AD how many of their coaches are not highly qualified. The problem from the district and unions' perspective is that there isn't a coaching shortage, somebody always wants to be a coach, but few want to be a math teacher or special education and have their career tied to a test that they have no control over. So just like in the business world, you should pay more to get a person to do the job if nobody is willing to do it. Now if you want to blame the unions, blame them and the districts for not being flexible in salaries for areas of critical needs/shortages. Despite their being a shortage, it isn't a universal shortage. Florida isn't struggling for social studies teachers, PE teachers, or elementary teachers, but secondary math, science, english, special ed (all levels), and world languages. Unions/districts have been reluctant to give extra pay to those subjects to entice people to enter the field, but notice, PE teacher isn't on that list. __________________ To give an idea of what will happen, let's use Madison County (since they were mentioned in an above post). Madison County has 30 head coaches and JV/assistant coaches (including cheerleading). The total amount of salaries that they put to those positions is %66,706. Madison County had a budget of $24 million, so .27% of their total budget. If the proposed bill passes, Madison County would spend 322,500, which represents 1.34% of their budget, about 4.8 times more than current. Now, if the state legislature would simple just add the $260,000 onto the budget, the unions wouldn't care other than making sure that all assistant/jv/and non mentioned coaches from the PB Post article are included. But that isn't what will happen, instead it will be a specific line in the budget from the state legislature, similar to technology or textbooks, money will be required to be spent on the salaries and the state will offer no additional funding (or they will only do it for 2 or 3 years, and when there are new priorities, they will still require it but provide no funding for it). Now, if they offer no additional funding, what happens is that money comes from somewhere in the budget. Considering that that this be part of "teacher salaries", that means it will be pulled from general instructional salaries portion of the budget, which means less money for teachers. So yes, teachers will be upset when the state legislature yet again promises something and then underdelivers (see making the starting salary $47,500).
    • low pay and high expense on housing, while are in the talks, coaches are leaving becuase of resources.  Mike Coe of coffee who was at union county and was a state championship contender year in and out, leaves to go to ga, in 3 seasons they went 15-0 this past yr, have an indoor field being built, makes a ton of money, all his 20 coaches do as well.  resources, the ability to say if we want something, we dont have to sell discount cards and do car washes to buy 10 helmets, we go to people with power/money/boosters/etc and say we need 10 helmets.  look up his twitter, thats where this all came from. camden county and travis roland, same deal.  win a title at mainland and goes fundraising the next week.  or go to camden, takes his staff, make more money, have incredible resources to facilitate what a state championship program should look like, same-read his twitter. id say majority of coaches would work in FL for what coaches rate is, if there were resources available that if you ask for it, its done.  not having to spend the summer selling cards or raffle tickets or whatever they do....
    • The rationale for allowing unlimited transfers, while also allowing an effectively unregulated "NIL" market, is that players should be able to do ANYTHING that helps them better themselves. ANY limits or regulations are said to be immoral, and probably rooted in "white supremacy". Welp, imagine a player playing on a team that's getting their butts kicked. You can't argue that it wouldn't improve his marketability to simply take off his uniform and walk over to the other sideline during the game. NOW, he's on the WINNING team. It would be MUCH better for the player to be on the winning team than to be a no-good loser. And, since "equity" is seen as THE most (if not only) important thing-whereby "equity" is defined and measured by the equivalence (or lack thereof) of outcomes- allowing all of the players on the losing team to simply leave and join the winning team, it all makes perfect sense!* *While bitter sarcasm was employed here, this is not really a joke. Using the current rationale, the above IS consistent with the rationale.
    • Teachers are sometimes their own worst enemies.
    • This is a bit of an incoherent mess. The matter of parents' rights is separate from teacher/coaches pay and teacher certification. All are valid, but distinct, concerns. 
  • Who's Online (See full list)

  • Popular Contributors

×
×
  • Create New...