May 29, 20197 yr https://m.beaumontenterprise.com/sports/lamar/article/Former-Lamar-football-coach-taking-high-school-job-13904455.php
May 29, 20197 yr 🤔 so he goes from Head coach of an FCS program to 1A 6 man football in the high school ranks I guess he really needed to scratch the itch
May 30, 20197 yr Also Chester is just about 15 minutes away from Woodard’s hometown of Corrigan so that could have played a part in him taking that job.
May 30, 20197 yr Wish him success thankful for taking the challenge of an upstart football program. It wasn't all bad Also saw a rumor years ago that Barry Switzer was a supposed to be our head coach until resurrecting the program was delayed... Any truth to this ??
May 30, 20197 yr Now seeing where Woodard had already moved back to Corrigan and promised his mom and wife they would not move again so if he got back into coaching it would be at a school within driving distance. As far as the Barry Switzer, here is an article from the Austin-American Statesman that touches on it. https://www.statesman.com/article/20120901/SPORTS/309017055 Basically says around 2004, then Lamar AD Billy Tubbs told Switzer the job was his once funding was in place. But by the time all that finally happened, Switzer told Tubbs that he no longer had the energy to build a startup program. For those that didn’t pick up the connection, Tubbs and Switzer crossed paths for 8 years at Oklahoma while coaching basketball and football respectively
May 30, 20197 yr Damn wish Switzer would have taken the challenge. That would have been an instant boost for us. ESPN would have been all over that hiring.
May 30, 20197 yr Had Tubbs gotten what he wanted Lamar would be in a FBS conference as well, but there's no guarantee that a big name coach would have delivered a quicker success. UTSA brought in Coker, former Miami National Champion coach and he didn't last as long as Woodard. As for Woodard he probably got LU as far as he was going to and now hopefully he is in a spot where he can enjoy coaching and not have the pressure of all of us that want bigger results at LU. Art Briles former Baylor coach is back in high school coaching also.
May 30, 20197 yr Had Tubbs gotten what he wanted Lamar would be in a FBS conference as well, but there's no guarantee that a big name coach would have delivered a quicker success. UTSA brought in Coker, former Miami National Champion coach and he didn't last as long as Woodard. As for Woodard he probably got LU as far as he was going to and now hopefully he is in a spot where he can enjoy coaching and not have the pressure of all of us that want bigger results at LU. Art Briles former Baylor coach is back in high school coaching also. Heard about Briles last week. He's a fine teacher of young men. What a role model to look up to and try and emulate.:rolleyes:
May 30, 20197 yr I agree on the point that there was no promises Switzer would have been successful but our exposure would have been at a high point right from the get go. Honestly much like Tubbs (second stint ) at Lamar I'm sure the game had passed Switzer bye at that point. As for Briles I saw he got a job and I can't believe it's actually stuck this time for him.
June 4, 20197 yr 🤔 so he goes from Head coach of an FCS program to 1A 6 man football in the high school ranks I guess he really needed to scratch the itch Why not?
June 5, 20197 yr Why not? I'm not against it... it's just quite a drop off hell Art Briles at least got a full high school team to coach
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