Blake Pizan will be the new head coach. Per Wess Moore's tweet.
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Breaking: Pending board approval, Blake Pizan will be the Central Tigers new head football coach.
Where is he from?
North Little Rock - OC
Interesting.
PA and ATU alumni.
http://m.arkansasonline.com/news/2018/apr/04/north-little-rock-offensive-coordinator-picked-new/
He will know the central Arkansas landscape.
He's a good coach and contributed well at NLR. Went to have at PA I think. He will do a good job there.
Quote from: Cabotfan on April 06, 2018, 12:50:40 pm
What?!? ???
I'm 99.9 percent certain, maybe I'm wrong...
This guy was a good coach at NLR for Football, but he did fail as a baseball coach for El Dorado a while back.
Did he actually call the plays at North Little Rock or did Mitchell?
That's an interesting question but a good one, anyone know?
No. Mitchell did.
Most HCs call one side or the other
Pizan backs out...
https://twitter.com/JeremyMuckADG/status/984181517579685888
Looks like Central is open again...
Wow so both 7A jobs still open
I tried to tell y'all this is a different place.
Quote from: SUGARTOWN on April 11, 2018, 04:33:55 pm
Looks like Central is open again...
Maybe more candidates would apply or be interested in this job if it was a coaching only position. A program this size shouldn't expect the HC to teach classes.
Not just teach but teach a full load and only 2 coaches are in campus.
You think he would have known these things in the interview process for the job
And schools wonder why some win and some lose. One schools pays better, doesn't make the HC teach or at least very little so they have plenty of time to run the program the other school has the staff and the HC teach a full load and often core coarses, so they have little planning and meeting time. Not to mention coaching against larger staffs and better paid staffs, happy coaches. Now whydo so many coaches leave after a year or 3? Bad situation.
Central is messed up in the way they even consider the candidates. The hiring process is based on a committee of teachers. The run of the mill teacher thinks that coaches get paid to much and don't really contribute to education. There are others that think differently but nobody will argue that most teachers have zero clue the value a football program with a good culture brings to a school. They have a rubric of questions that they hit the candidates with and if the teachers don't like the coaches answers they give them a poor score. So if the candidates didn't recite the latest politicallly accepted educational theory from memory they scored poorly. Any serious candidate that interviewed for this job left this interview with a bad taste in thier mouth.
Why would you want a classroom teacher who likely knows nothing about coaching or about football to help hire a coach? If you had a really supportive faculty member and you were doing it to be inclusive, maybe. Although that is just cowtowing to the faculty. Wonder how many coaches sit in on classrroom teacher interview?
The just announced new LR Central Head Basketball Coach is also current Head of the Math Department, Boys Golf Team Coach, and Overall HS Basketball Coach of the Year 2017-2018 at his present job.
How is spring ball going for the Tigers?
How is spring ball going for the Tigers?
Quote from: Pat Swilling on May 07, 2018, 08:21:24 am
How is spring ball going for the Tigers?
The coach was on FOX 16 last night. Very excited and very positive outlook. He has high expectations for his team, but he says right now he is working to fit everybody where they place the best right now. He says they are looking solid overall as a team though.
Quote from: Mulerider4Life on May 07, 2018, 11:49:04 am
The coach was on FOX 16 last night. Very excited and very positive outlook. He has high expectations for his team, but he says right now he is working to fit everybody where they place the best right now. He says they are looking solid overall as a team though.
The TALENT is there. It has to be. They are a 7a school. The right coach, will find it.
Not like it used to be...Too many options with more to offer.
Quote from: Michiganhog on May 07, 2018, 01:01:57 pm
Not like it used to be...Too many options with more to offer.
Well, hopefully the coach weeds out this woe as me mentality and proves otherwise.
Quote from: AirWarren on May 07, 2018, 02:18:10 pm
Well, hopefully the coach weeds out this woe as me mentality and proves otherwise.
They are fighting with the school-choice battle.
Quote from: Mulerider4Life on May 09, 2018, 07:40:12 am
They are fighting with the school-choice battle.
Most schools do. School choice is great for schools, but it also hurts schools.