Jarrell Gets Their Fourth Head Coach In Five Years

April 8, 2011 By Leave a Comment

2011 Coaching Change: Jarrell Cougars

Old Head Coach: Guillermo Gonzalez — Resigned after leading the Cougars to a 3-16-0 record over the last two seasons.

New Head Coach: Chuck Wyatt — Was an assistant with the Cougars last season. This will be his first head coaching position. Was also an assistant at 4A Robstown and 4A Pflugerville Connally. Coach Wyatt will the fourth head coach in five years for Jarrell.

Team News: The Cougars have gone 6-23 over the last three seasons and have not made the playoffs since 2006.

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By: Michael Wright
Lone Star Gridiron
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Cottonpickers Hire One Of Their Own

February 25, 2011 By Leave a Comment

2011 Coaching Change — Robstown Cottonpickers

Old Head Coach: Doug Wood — Retiring after leading the Cottonpickers for the past 5 years to an overall record of 23-30-0. His win totals went from 5 wins his first two seasons…then 10 wins the 2nd two seasons and last year they went 8-4. The 8 wins is the most in 40 years (1971). Before arriving in Robstown, Wood spent 10 years as defensive coordinator at Pflugerville Connally.

New Head Coach: Enrique Gonzalez — Was the defensive coordinato last season and assistant one other. He was also an assistant coach at South San Antonio and San Marcos. Gonzalez is a Robstown grad (2004).

Team News: Along with the most wins in 40 years, the Cottonpickers ended a streak of 19 consecutive non-winning seasons. They also won their first playoff football game in 54 years last season. The playoff game in 2008 was their first time in 42 years.

By: Michael Wright
Lone Star Gridiron
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Coaching Changes — Corpus Christi West Oso

April 21, 2010 By Leave a Comment

Corpus Christi West Oso has hired Joe Salinas as its new head coach and athletic director. Salinas will replace Mark Guess who has been the head coach for the last nine seasons with the Bears.

Guess was 48-48 in his nine seasons with the Bears but went 3-7 last year and missed the playoffs the past two seasons. He was previously an assistant coach at West Oso before becoming the head coach. Coach Guess will be taking over the athletic coordinator and head coaching responsibilities at Brownsville Veterans Memorial next season which is just opening. He leaves ranked #2 in all-time coaching wins at West Oso, only 1 win behind Ed Bacak.

Salinas spent the past three seasons at Class A Van Horn. He took over a team that was coming off a 1-8 season. He went just 2-8 in his first year but went 6-5 and 7-4 in 2008 and 2009 making the playoffs both years. His overall record was 15-17 during his three seasons. Before coaching at Van Horn, Salinas spent two seasons as the head coach at La Villa where he turned things around there also. La Villa went 0-10 the year before Salinas was hired. In his first year they went 7-5 and then went 11-1 the following season before he left for Van Horn. Before he became a head coach, Salinas spent time as an assistant coach at Edcouch-Elsa and Orange Grove.

The Bears will compete the next two seasons in District 31-3A with Corpus Christi Miller, Robstown, Orange Grove, Lyford and Raymondville.

ALL-TIME WINNINGEST COACHES AT WEST OSO

Ed Bacak 1951-1963 (49-73-6) .406
Mark Guess 2001-2009 (48-48-0) .500
Willie Trevino 1981-1990 (47-57-1) .452
Joe Sendejar 1993-1999 (41-36-1) .532

By: Michael Wright
Lone Star Gridiron
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