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2023 Football Coaching Changes
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New Hires: Seventeen Best Hire: Steve Mask, Theodore Hardest to Replace: Jere Adcock, Decatur Best Job: Theodore Toughest Job: Paul Bryant |
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Most Interesting: The best hire and the worst hire may just
prove to be the same head coaching job. For whatever reason I just cannot
decide which one it is so I will omit Rush Propst and Pell City from the
argument. Best of luck to the
Pell City Panthers this season. Pell City has won just a single playoff game since 2005 so this will be interesting to watch over the next few seasons. Steve Mask decided to move north to Pell City last season after winning four state championships at St. Paul's but will return to the Mobile area in 2023 at Theodore. | |||||||
| 2023 Coaching Changes | |||||
| Seventeen head
coaching positions in 6A changed hands during the off season.
Nine of the new coaching hires in 6A were head coaches at a different
school last season. Eight were assistant coaches.
It will be interesting to watch Pinson Valley this season as Gentrell Eatman takes over the head coaching job after turning Woodlawn around last season. | |||||
| Team | 2022 Season | 2023 Season | |||
| Baldwin County (4-7) | Steve Normand | Scott Rials | |||
| Blount (3-7) | Josh Harris | Ramon Nelson | |||
| Brookwood (6-4) | Tim Bowens | Mike Bramblett | |||
| Calera (4-7) | Jason Hamlin | Jerad Holder | |||
| Calera (4-7) | Jason Hamlin | Jerad Holder | |||
| Carver Montgomery (3-7) | Rod Carson | Marcus Gardner | |||
| Central Tuscaloosa (2-8) | Rodney Bivens Jr. | Demario Pippin | |||
| Chilton County (3-1) | Jay Norcross | Marvin Morton | |||
| Clay-Chalkville (1-3) | John Roach | Drew Gilmer | |||
| Columbia (0-9) | Josh LouAllen | Sean Watson | |||
| Cullman (7-4) | Oscar Glasscock | Danny Stiff | |||
| Decatur (3-7) | Rick Cauley | Aairon Savage | |||
| Decatur (9-3) | Jere Adcock | Aairon Savage | |||
| Hartselle (12-1) | Bryan Moore | Bryan Moore | |||
| Hazel Green (4-6) | Keith Register | Charlie Wilburn | |||
| Huffman (1-9) | Marlon Bush | Rodney Bivens Jr. | |||
| Huffman (1-9) | Marlon Bush | Rodney Bivens Jr. | |||
| Huntsville (6-5) | Mark Fleetwood | Rodney Bivens Jr. | |||
| Jackson-Olin (4-7) | Jamaal Bess | Walter Jordan | |||
| Mae Jemison (0-10) | Harold Wells | Rico White | |||
| McGill-Toolen (5-5) | Norman Joseph | David Faulkner | |||
| Murphy (2-7) | John McKenzie | Justin Hannah | |||
| Park Crossing (0-9) | Ty Lockett | Ty Lockett | |||
| Paul Bryant (1-9) | Eldrick Hill | John McKenzie | |||
| Pell City (1-9) | Steve Mask | Rush Propst | |||
| Percy Julian (1-9) | DreQuay Everett | Rush Propst | |||
| Pike Road (7-5) | Ed Rigby | Granger Shook | |||
| Pike Road (7-5) | Ed Rigby | Granger Shook | |||
| Pinson Valley (6-4) | Lee Guess | Gentrell Eatman | |||
| Pinson Valley (6-4) | Lee Guess | Gentrell Eatman | |||
| Robertsdale (0-10) | Kyle Stanford | Kyle Stanford6/Staff | |||
| Robertsdale (0-10) | Kyle Stanford | Kyle Stanford6/Staff | |||
| Russellville (7-5) | John Ritter | Dillon Griggs | |||
| Sparkman (5-5) | Laron White | Chase Smith | |||
| Stanhope Elmore (4-6) | Brian Bradford | Hunter Adams | |||
| Stanhope Elmore (4-6) | Brian Bradford | Hunter Adams | |||
| Straughn (7-4) | Ashley Kilcrease | Hunter Adams | |||
| Theodore (13-1) | Eric Collier | Steve Mask | |||
| Theodore (13-1) | Eric Collier | Steve Mask | |||
| Woodlawn (6-4) | Gentrell Eatman | Clarence Williams | |||
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Steve Mask arrives in Theodore with 211 coaching victories in Alabama. He
also picked up four state championship trophies in a previous stop at St.
Paul's in Mobile. Ironically our top two coaches won a lot of out-of-state
football games. Rush Propst won 119 games in Georgia and Jamie Mitchell won
216 in Mississippi and Arkansas. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Most Playoff Victories | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Rush Propst and Coach Mask top our list among the 6A coaches with the most playoff victories. Those two have nine state championship trophies between them. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Longest Tenure at Current School | ||||||||||||
| Jere Adcock retired during the off season
after twenty seven years at
Decatur. Coach Adcock's teams at Decatur finished a combined 187-120 over
the past 27 seasons. They were 16-21 in the playoffs and won seven
region championships. The 57 schools in 6A average 3.9 years each with their current head football coach. That is the shortest average tenure in any classification. Only five coaches have been at their current school for more than ten seasons. | ||||||||||||
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| Coaching Turnover 2000-2023 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| The lack of success in most football programs often leads to a change in the head coach. These schools have had the most head coaching changes over the past 24 years. The biggest surprise on this list has to be McGill-Toolen with ten different coaches during this time. The Yellow Jackets qualified for the playoffs in every season except two and actually won a championship in 2015. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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David Parker
AHSFHS.org
dparker@ahsfhs.org
Great Moments in Alabama High School Football History
The first football game played by a high school team in Alabama was in 1892 when Central Birmingham (Phillips) lost to Alabama 56-0 on November 11.
The first football game played by a high school team in Alabama was in 1892 when Central Birmingham (Phillips) lost to Alabama 56-0 on November 11.
