By SportsDay staff
13:19 on January 19, 2021 CST
Keep track of each and every replacement for the head coach of the Dallas-area football teams. The schools below are classified in alphabetical order.
Editor’s Note: This story will be updated during the off-season prior to the 2021 season.
Out: Jason Heath
In: Seth Parr (January 19)
Parr will upgrade Heath, who assumed an administrative role as Anna ISD’s Facility Manager, in district growth/planning and structure development.
Anna finished 3-7 this season, without reaching the playoffs after finishing tied for fifth in District 7-4A Division I.
Parr left a Lubbock Coronado team that was ranked No. 6 in the state in Division 5A I at the end of an undefeated normal season, and reached the Region I semi-finals before losing Red Oak 42-41 in double overtime to finish 12-1.
Read more: Seth Parr waits for Anna’s new football coach after leaving Lubbock Coronado
Release: Steven Greek (January 11)
In: TBD
Sports director Johnny Isom said the school was beginning the search for a new coach and had not appointed an interim coach in the process. The Greek led Liberty Christian to an 8-5 record and a position in the semi-finals of TAPPS Division I in 2018 in 2018. his first season as head coach, however, the team had a 5-15 record in more than two seasons, adding 2-7 this year.
Greek daniel’s son has finished his senior football season at Liberty Christian, and the three-star quarterback signed with the state of Mississippi in December.
Read more: Steven Greek leaves the position of coach at Argyle Liberty Christian
Release: Greg Price (January 10)
In: TBD
Price said he didn’t take the job, but he hopes to be training somewhere next season. He had a 5-13 record in two seasons as Bishop Lynch’s head coach, adding 0-6 this season. His 2019 team lost at the time circular. de the playoffs.
Bishop Lynch will begin the search for a new coach. Brandon Moats, the coach of the school’s freshman team, has been named interim head coach.
Read more: Greg Price will leave the position of coach at Bishop Lynch; Brandon Moats named coach
Release: Jay Cline (December 19)
In: TBD
Cline allegedly resigned, according to Matt Stepp of Dave Campbell’s Texas Football. Cline, who was hired as Creekview’s head coach in 2010, refused to verify or comment on the Dallas Morning News.
In response to a confirmation request, ISD’s Carrollton-Farmers Branch Director of Sports, Renee Putter, said: “CFBISD has no comment on the affairs of the body of workers.
Cline led Creekview to the playoffs three times between 2013 and 2015. Creekview has 22 wins in that sequence, lost all three seasons in the first round.
Find out here.
Release: Paul Ressa (December 19)
In: TBD
Ressa, newman Smith’s coach since 2007, has resigned.
Newman Smith finished this season with his top win since 2014, but his 5-4 record was not enough to qualify for the playoffs. Historically, playoff appearances have not been unusual in Newman Smith’s history, however, Ressa has led the Trojans four times in 14 seasons. Previously, Newman Smith only had one playoff appearance, returning in 1983.
Ressa’s season with the school came here in 2009 when Newman Smith posted a 10-3 record and reached the third playoff circular. The Trojans, led by offensive side Randall Joyner, now assistant coach at SMU, returned to the third playoff circular. the playoffs the following season, completing with a 7-6 record.
Find out here.
Outside: Aaron Woods (November 19)
In: TBD
Woods resigned from his post and did not train in the Jackrabbits’ last game. Forney 0-8 under Woods and finished 0-9 during the year.
Woods, a former offensive coordinator at Cedar Hill and Waxahachie, was hired in 2018 to upgrade Forney’s head coach Kevin Rush, who spent 16 years as Forney’s head coach, accumulating an overall record of 84-88. Rush has taken Forney to the playoffs six times, adding 2015, the last time the Jackrabbits reached the playoffs.
Woods finished with a 5-23 in Forney.
Read more: Aaron Woods resigns with two to play in the 2020 season
Release: Mike Glaze (December 11)
In: TBD
Glaze resigned after six seasons. It was Glaze’s first head training job. He hired him in 2015 after serving as a two-time state championship winner at Cedar Hill.
In glaze’s six seasons, L. D. Bell reached the playoffs and scored a combined 11-41.
Although Glaze is playing, he said he still has plans to be a coach, he said he liked to be an offensive coordinator and that he could see himself returning to that role.
Read more: Mike Glaze resigns after six seasons
Release: Andre ‘Hart (December 7)
In: TBD
Hart, who served as TC-Cedar Hill’s defensive coordinator for consecutive TAPPS State titles in 2017 and 2018, took over as head coach for the 2019 season. He led the team in a TAPPS title, but without controversy.
TC-Cedar Hill’s TAPPS club finished 12 days after winning their third consecutive title. He won a letter from TAPPS informing TC-Cedar Hill that he had won several punishments, adding a notice of exit from the deal and a five-game suspension for Hart.
You can see why TAPPS took its resolution here.
Hart remained the team’s head coach for the 2020 season. TC-Cedar Hill’s schedule basically consisted of groups from across the country, betting in Mississippi, Tennessee, Arkansas, Florida and Washington. They finished the year 8-3.
In September, 3 days after the fifth game of the SEASON at TC-Cedar Hill, Deion Sanders, a member of the Professional Football Hall of Fame, was hired as Jackson State’s head football manager. Sanders is the offensive coordinator of TC-Cedar Hill.
Hart is indexed as an assistant and supporter coach on The Jackson State’s sports website.
Release: Todd Alexander (January 7)
In: TBD
Alexander, the first waxahachie alumni to take over the football program, resigned after three seasons and took Waxahachie to the playoffs this season, marking the first time he did so in point 6A. He finished 8-22, adding 5-5 last year.
Alexander took office in 2018 following the resignation of Jon Kitna, a former NFL quarterback and coach who is now Burleson’s head coach.
Read more: Todd Alexander, Waxahachie’s head coach, resigns after three seasons
Release: Mike Dormady (December 9)
In: TBD
Dormady will be the school’s head coach next season, a Spokesperson for Wylie ISD showed The News. The spokesman said Dormady is still a school district worker, “but we’re going to make a replacement in the head coaching position at Wylie East High School. “
Dormady succeeded Wylie East in 2018 after spending six years in Boerne. He has also coached at Coppell and Colleyville Heritage, between schools.
In Boerne, Dormady took the Greyhounds to the playoffs five times in six seasons. In his last four seasons he has compiled a 29-14 record. However, this winning record translated into Wylie East. In three seasons under Dormady, Wylie East had a combined mark of 4-24.
Read more: Mike Dormady of Wylie East might not return as the school’s main football coach
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