SanAngeloBobcat
11-13-2008, 01:27 PM
Heryford out as San Angelo Central football coach
By Jeff Wick
Originally published 11:15 a.m., November 13, 2008
Updated 11:18 a.m., November 13, 2008
After three seasons as the head football coach at Central High, Steve Heryford has been reassigned.
The announcement came this morning, six days after Heryford's Bobcats finished an 0-10 season, just the third winless campaign in the program's history.
Heryford, a Midland native and graduate of Greenwood High School, was hired in spring 2006 to replace Bob Bellard.
He had previously been a head coach at Del Rio and Tahoka and had really made a name for himself with Central fans and players as defensive coordinator on the Bobcats 2003 state quarterfinalist team.
His first season as head coach of the Bobcats in 2006, he went 6-6 and won a first-round playoff game.
The next year, he was 5-6 and lost in the first round. Central finished last year with three straight losses, and 10 more this season had the Bobcats in the midst of the second-longest losing streak in program history.
Heryford's overall record at Central was 11-22.
This season, the Bobcats never got going after blowout losses to open the season against a pair of state-ranked teams, Copperas Cove and Odessa Permian. They were also beset by injuries, which forced them into playing four kids at quarterback.
This was the first season since 2002 that Central had not made the playoffs, although this was the first season the Bobcats were playing in a 10-team District 2-5A after a decade in a six-team district.
"I'm going to serve here or serve somewhere else," Heryford had said Friday after the season ending loss. "I have faith in God that that's going to be taken care of. I try not to spend too much time thinking about it. I'm going to do what's best for these young men as long as that's my job. When that's not my job, I'll go do it somewhere else."
The district said Heryford will, for the present time serve as an administrative intern with SAISD.
By Jeff Wick
Originally published 11:15 a.m., November 13, 2008
Updated 11:18 a.m., November 13, 2008
After three seasons as the head football coach at Central High, Steve Heryford has been reassigned.
The announcement came this morning, six days after Heryford's Bobcats finished an 0-10 season, just the third winless campaign in the program's history.
Heryford, a Midland native and graduate of Greenwood High School, was hired in spring 2006 to replace Bob Bellard.
He had previously been a head coach at Del Rio and Tahoka and had really made a name for himself with Central fans and players as defensive coordinator on the Bobcats 2003 state quarterfinalist team.
His first season as head coach of the Bobcats in 2006, he went 6-6 and won a first-round playoff game.
The next year, he was 5-6 and lost in the first round. Central finished last year with three straight losses, and 10 more this season had the Bobcats in the midst of the second-longest losing streak in program history.
Heryford's overall record at Central was 11-22.
This season, the Bobcats never got going after blowout losses to open the season against a pair of state-ranked teams, Copperas Cove and Odessa Permian. They were also beset by injuries, which forced them into playing four kids at quarterback.
This was the first season since 2002 that Central had not made the playoffs, although this was the first season the Bobcats were playing in a 10-team District 2-5A after a decade in a six-team district.
"I'm going to serve here or serve somewhere else," Heryford had said Friday after the season ending loss. "I have faith in God that that's going to be taken care of. I try not to spend too much time thinking about it. I'm going to do what's best for these young men as long as that's my job. When that's not my job, I'll go do it somewhere else."
The district said Heryford will, for the present time serve as an administrative intern with SAISD.