Now, Texas is returning the favor. All four are already assisting head coach Mike Yeager. He has served on the Texas High School Coaches Association Board of Directors, and he will be a nominee for the THSCA presidents position this summer. One qualification Allen could seek in its next hire is a coach with a championship history. Preston also got to coach against another NFL quarterback in Heisman Trophy winner and NFL Rookie of the Year Robert Griffin III. The suit claims the mother and the daughter in question "have been harassed by students and parents who believe their efforts have harmed (the football players) football career or the school football teams chance at winning another Texas state UIL championship." The biggest thing we learned growing up was we learned how to compete.. "The school district budget, while it may seem large, on a per-student basis is probably the most efficient budget in the city or county, wherever the school district is located," said Tracy Ginsburg, executive director of the Texas Association of School Business Officials, a nonprofit organization that analyzes school finance. [Our players] represent the seal on their helmet and do it with pride and play unbelievably hard for the community.. Football 903-693-2552 Send Message BLAINE VASSAR Teacher 903-693-2552 Send Message NAKESA WARE Photographer Wayne Grubbs has posted a new gallery Pleasant Grove vs. Carthage (UIL 4A DII Region 2 Finals) containing 350 photos. "" indicates the team played but either without a coach or no coach is on record. Joseph Hoyt, Staff Writer. And now a prominent high school coach could be held civilly liable for not stopping the spread of such messages. We also get your email address to automatically create an account for you in our website. Teacher/ On Campus Suspension (OCS)/ Asst. Though Surratt has had opportunities to coach at larger high schools and at the college level, hes opted to stay in this small East Texas town 150 miles southeast of Dallas. Sorry, there are no recent results for popular videos. Stafford is currently the Los Angeles Rams starting quarterback who, in his first season with the Rams, led them to a Super Bowl title this past February. Coach Scott Surratt took over as head coach at Carthage High School in Texas over 15 years ago. Few understand the shadow that cloud casts more than Chris Stacy, high school academic coordinator and former coach. Find more high school sports coverage from The Dallas Morning News here. They have done so at the expense of their top rivals. According to the suit, in April 2016 the plaintiff's daughter was at a friend's house playing volleyball with the football player also at the house. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IEtsTcE-GQ8. Before joining the college ranks, Morris was a high school head coach in Texas for 16 years. Played on the same teams growing up, and Scotts dad coached us during summer league. Carthage ISD will send about $9.5 million to the state this year, through the "Robin Hood" provision of the state school funding system, which requires districts with higher property values to subsidize those with lower values. Watch this highlight video of the Carthage (TX) football team in its game Recap: Carthage vs. The real problem worth discussing, many argue, is that schools are subsisting on meager funds. Carthage High head football coach and athletic director Scott Surratt received a $21,400 raise this year, while the district faced a nearly $7 million shortfall. Carthage defensive coordinator Darren Preston was honored with the Kyle Preston Award for assistant coaches at the East Texas Coaches Association Hall of Honor Banquet. To put that in perspective, Alabama head coach Nick Saban is in tenth season with the Crimson Tide, and he also has over 115 victories to go with four national titles. Ryan Silapan joined the Panola Watchman in May of 2021 after previous stints with the Sequoyah County Times, Prep2Prep.com and the Santa Cruz Sentinel. Joseph covers SMU, college sports and the Texas Rangers for The Dallas Morning News. Surratt has turned Carthage into a dynasty. Texas head coach Steve Sarkisian and assistants Kyle Flood and Jeff Banks have helped transform recruiting for the Longhorns in the Lone Star State. Arecent reportby the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities,left-leaning think tank,shows that Texas made among the deepest cuts to public education in the last decade, compared with other states. Dan Patrick and Senate Republicansargued that schools weren't spending efficiently, and they unsuccessfully pushed a measure requiring districts to reprioritize existing money to guarantee teacher raises. Perhaps it goes without saying but producing quality journalism isn't cheap. They want to have a place kids want to come back to.". Allen has had two head coaches Tom Westerberg and Gambill in the last 17 seasons. Carthage High School 1600 W. Panola St. Carthage, TX 75633 Phone: 903-693-2552 Fax: 903-693-9752. Allen, if interested, could be piqued by the possibility of seeing what Hickman could do at a school with an enrollment nearly seven times what hes already had. Thats what makes coaching what it is and fraternity of what it is.. Every teacher here had a pay cut [with the reduced contribution to health insurance]. In the next few years, if values don't rise organically, Superintendent Glenn Hambrick said, Carthage ISD will have to ask the community to vote to raise taxes again because the tax rate is far below the maximum allowed by state law. Carthage Bulldogs Varsity Boys Football Carthage, TX FOLLOW TEAM 22-23 V. Football Home Schedule Roster Stats Standings Rankings Photos Videos News More / Football All-Time Roster Carthage Football History Previous Seasons All-Time Roster 2022-23 ( 62 players) Head Coach: Jeff W CARTHAGE Watching his players dartup and down the field during a recent game, Carthage High head football coach Scott Surratt anxiously anticipated every pass, penalty and fumble, sometimes needing to be stopped from charging onto the turf. Look at the product. CARTHAGE, Texas (KLTV) - The Carthage Bulldogs will be taking on Van Alstyne this week in the area playoff. On this Wikipedia the language links are at the top of the page across from the article title. Carthage ISD ; Carthage High School ; Carthage Junior High School ; Statistics correct as of the end of the 2022 college football season. Theyre blind to anything else as long as we get to go to these football games. Carthage ISDdistrict sits on one of the country's largest natural gas reserves. As a nonprofit newsroom, we rely on members to help keep our stories free and our events open to the public. With a total salary of $154,900, Surratt is paid just a little less than the high school football coach in Lake Travis, where the district's student body is nearly four times larger and its median income is six figures. To prepare for the season, Longhorns Wire will be profiling every player on the Texas roster. An under-the-radar name to keep an eye on is Wiginton. February 27. He already coaches the No. All Rights Reserved. Fans will fill the stands either way, like they did when she was a young girl. Texas HS Football State Champions: 1920-2022, Wimberley has Great Season: Texans Future is Bright, Texas HS Football Fan Vote Player Of The Year. The Bulldogs head coach won three straight championships from 2008 to 2010, and another one in 2013. Offensive coordinator Derek Alford came to Allen from Waco Midway with Gambill in 2016. It was the biggest news of the Texas high school football offseason, as Gambill was 65-4 at Allen and went 16-0 and won the Class 6A Division I state championship in 2017. He has led the Bulldogs to six state championships in his 11 seasons, including crowns in the past two seasons. I have worked at The Dallas Morning News since 2000. Carthage High School Where Champions Are Educated Carthage High School Staff Select Departments JUSTIN SMITH Principal 903-693-2552 Send Message CHRISTOPHER STACY Assistant Principal-Instruction 903-693-2552,1111 Send Message Clarinda Jo Collins Assistant Principal - Behavior Coordinator 903-693-2552 Send Message CHARLOTTE SOAPE The dip in natural gas prices means Carthage is currently low on revenue, and the state's decision not to renew a funding program further hurts the district. Carthage College Director of Athletics Robert Bonn named four new football assistant coaches on Jan. 31, 2013. Cutting any athletic program would harm students who use sports as an emotional outlet for difficult home lives, said Andy Dawson, head of the booster club and the father of a Carthage High junior who wants to go into sports medicine. They have to put more focus on teachers," Patrick said at a July news conference. The girls discovered the recording and confronted the boy, who said he would only delete the recording if the girls kissed him. MAXPREPS; CBSSPORTS.COM; 247SPORTS; . Anytime you have your peers honor you, that just makes it that more special.. But interviews conducted by The Dallas Morning News indicate that Todd Dodge is not interested in leaving Westlake. Schools . About 73 percent of Carthage ISD residents who voted agreed to pay for the screen in a bond election; the money comes from a self-imposed hike in property taxes, not from school coffers. With him, Allen would move forward with a young head coach who also has a connection to Allens past. Defensively, Lewis and fellow senior Camden Foster (114 tackles, 10.5 TFL) will be a dangerous duo at linebacker, and senior Brandon King will anchor the secondary after setting a school record with nine interceptions last year, including four in the state title game victory against Gilmer. Before getting into coaching, Preston played baseball at Louisiana Tech, where he pursued a degree in kinesiology. The Bulldogs went 14-0 while averaging nearly 46 points per game offensively. Preston, who wrapped up his 11th season as defensive coordinator/assistant head coach of Carthage, began his coaching career at Henderson State University in Arkadelphia, Arkansas, where he was hired by Ken Turner and the late Ronnie Kerr. The suit claims Surrat, along with the other defendants, violated the plaintiff's daughter's 14th Amendment rights to due process and equal protection under the law. The team has had 22 head coaches since . Prestons and Surratts relationship goes back to when they were small boys growing up together in Linden. Carthages success has come at the 4A level. Coaching is in my blood, so I pretty much knew Id be a coach, Preston said. Surratt certainly fits the description. The girls reluctantly agreed, but the video, the suit alleges, was not deleted but spread throughout the football team. There are certainly differences from a football sense and more. Allen has never had a black head football coach. In 2011, Preston joined Surratts staff, and he has been the defensive coordinator and assistant head coach ever since. Lewis was a force in the heart of the Bulldog defense last season with 140 total tackles, including 17 tackles for loss. Jesuit bounced back the next year, though, going 9-5 and making it all the way to the state quarterfinals. As he succeeds on the field, Surratt, who's also the district's athletic director, has been rewarded off of it. Carthage Bulldogs Head Coach: Scott Surratt (15 th season) Class: 4A Division II District: 10-4A Division II. Shavers has also had a successful start to his head coaching career. Tweet. Dodge has a great job already, coaching at his alma mater and coming off a 12-2 season and state runner-up finish in Class 6A Division I. 9X 4A Football State Champions. Hes gone 77-52 and has made the playoffs every season aside from a 2-8 season in 2018. After learningthat Coach Surratt's raise was comingwhile teachers aides and bus monitors were being let go, Felita Ewins held a small protest outside the district administration buildingon the first day of school. He described the state funding cut as a "cloud that's hanging over" the district and its staff. The plaintiffs brought the video to the attention of school officials who, according to the suit, were aware of the video but were disinterested in stopping its spread. Youd think it was the Dallas Cowboys., Hambrick ascribes the pride the community takes in its football team to a loftier motive: "A lot of East Texas communities, kids are graduating, moving out, and not coming back Carthage thinks differently. Winds light and variable.. Clear skies. Carthage won its second straight state title and fourth state title in five years in a convincing 70-14 victory over Gilmer in last years 4A Division II state title game. Surratt certainly fits the description. Head football coach Scott Surrat is named as a defendant alongside Carthage ISD, principal Otis Amy and superintendent Dr. Joseph Hambrick. That tells you what the mind-set is here in Panola County. The. Copyright 2016 KLTV. A parent has filed a lawsuit in a U.S. District Court against Carthage ISD in Carthage, Texas, after the school failed to stop the spread of a nude video clandestinely shot of two then-freshmen girls by a then-freshman football player. It was at Carthage were Preston got his first defensive coordinator job but along the way said he had quite a bit of input at his previous stops. District: 4A-2 Region III District 10; Division: Division 4A-2; . If Allen decides to hire from within, then defensive coordinator Cory Cain could become a prime candidate. But if we didn't make the playoffs anymore, we would lose that income," he said. A truly ugly case is making its way through the court system in East Texas that has terrible implications for all involved -- and a successful high school head coach is named as a defendant. Jobs like this dont open up often. Surrat is one of the most successful high school coaches in Texas and considered a rising star in the profession. Send Message. Carthage athletics photo. Allen could also make an important statement by hiring a black coach to the biggest job in Texas. Quarterback Kai Horton and running back Mason Courtney combined for 556 yards and seven total touchdowns in the game. The Carthage athletic department announced on Wednesday the hiring of Paul Leese as the fourth head men's soccer coach in program history. That was the longest playoff run in school history. There was a problem saving your notification. We went 81-2. Head Boy's Track Coach; 8th Head Football carthageCC_TF: 417359-7020 417359-7020: Anthony Hance: Head 9th Baseball; 7th Head Football Brett Collier: JH Assistant Football; JH Assistant Wrestling . Texas 75201. Position: K 40 Yard Dash 4.8 5-10-5 Shuttle 6.2 Bench Press 155 Carthage 35, Salado 7 Carthage 52, China Spring 14 Carthage 38, Wimberley 7 RECORD OF PLAYOFF OPPONENTS: 44-19 NOTES: Carthage HC Scott Surratt is 7-0 in state championship games. In 2011, Preston joined Surratt's staff, and he has been the defensive coordinator and assistant head coach ever since. Tiffin did not make an announcement of the hiring, and Yeager is listed on the department website . Surratt has turned. On 12/9, the Carthage varsity football team won their neutral playoff game against Glen Rose (TX) by a score of 42-35. The issue gets more complicated as state cuts to schools become more standard, experts and public education advocates say. Would Dodge leave eight-time state champion Southlake Carroll, a school where he was a Parade All-American and the star quarterback for Carrolls undefeated 2006 state championship team?