Victoria East Gets Replacement After Finley Retires

By Michael Wright
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Updated: January 20, 2012

2012 Coaching Change: Victoria East Titans

Old Head Coach: Mickey Finley -- Retiring after leading the Titans for their only 2 seasons in varsity play. He has led them to an overall 18-7 and 2 consecutive playoff runs. Finley was also head coach at Victoria Memorial from 2007-2009 going 11-19. He was head coach at Cuero from 1992-1998 going 69-23-2 over 7 seasons. He was also at Schulenburg in 2006 going 11-1. Finley ends his career with an all-time coaching record of 214-149-3. This ranks him #57 on the all-time coaching wins list.

New Head Coach: Roland Gonzalez - From 5A Cypress Springs where he has led the Panthers to an overall 10-29 record over the last 4 seasons including going 0-10 last year. Gonzalez has also been the head coach at Corpus Christi Ray where he led the Texans to a 33-20 record over 5 seasons. His all-time coaching record now sits at 43-49. Before taking over as a head coach, he was an assistant at Stephenville under Art Briles.

Team News: The Titans have gone 18-7 in their first two seasons of playing varsity ball after Victoria Memorial was split up into 2 schools.

Coaching changes for 2012.

By: Michael Wright
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