See that BMT West Brook, Kirbyville, and Buna are all oen.

prepballfan · Feb 9, 2021

Peevey left BMT West Brook for LCM. Says alot for BISD that a coach who went to the SC game two years ago would bail for a school 2 classifications lower. I am sure the AD title plays a large role in that. The BISD has never treated its coaches fairly and it shows. Interested to see if any Indians coaches try and apply for these gigs. In the past Coach Faircloths staff has been in high demand for other HC jobs.

IndianFan · Feb 9, 2021

Dang. That is an eye opener. Good info.

IndianFan · Mar 8, 2021

No PN-G coaches applied. Not a great district to work for anyway.

Beaumont ISD receives 28 applicants for West Brook football coaching vacancy

The Bruins have been without a football coach since Eric Peevey left for LC-M last...

www.beaumontenterprise.com

prepballfan · Apr 2, 2021

Terrible only 28 people applies for a job that is 6A and was in the SC game two years ago.

IndianFan · Apr 2, 2021

prepballfan said:
Terrible only 28 people applies for a job that is 6A and was in the SC game two years ago.

No comment other than the problems there have all been in the news for years. And the fact that, according to public records, Beaumont ISD head coaching jobs have been one of the lowest paying gigs in the state.

It Pays to Coach Texas High School Football. Like, Really Pays

It's no secret that NFL coaches make a ton of money to lead a group of professionals in the most popular sports league in the United States. It also doesn't take a rocket scientist to figure out that some college football coaches make enough money that they could become the governor of an entire...

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2018 - Class 6A Division II

Todd Dodge, Austin Westlake: $150,000

John King, Longview: $133,675

Gregory McCaig, Cypress Creek: $119,860

Kenneth Plunk, Amarillo Tascosa: $114,672

Matt Meekins, Spring Westfield: $104,030

David Branscom, San Antonio Brandeis: $97,783

Jason Tucker, Haltom: $97,722

Eric Peevey, Beaumont West Brook: $86,000

AVERAGE: $112,967.75

PNG Proud · Apr 17, 2021

"The lowest-paid remaining was Eric Peevey, the head football coach of West Brook in Beaumont, Texas. At 13-3, Peevey’s Bruins lost to the Longview Lobos in the Class 6A Division II State Championship game. Peevey was only in his second season coaching West Brook, and the team finished 7-3 the prior season."
That's pretty sad

PNGIndian75 · May 2, 2021

WOW, I can see why Peevey left. He's obviously a good coach to get to SC game in 2nd year at a 6A D2 school. Proud for him and hope he turns LC-M into a powerhouse.

indians87 · May 2, 2021

Jimmy Johnson, Nick Sabin or Bill Belichick could not turn LCM into a powerhouse.

BMTSoulja1 · May 6, 2021

I really think you guys need more information. Peevey didn't leave for pay. If you didn't know about the pay scale for HC in BISD, I'll inform you. HC's in BISD get a stipend. With Peevey's stipend, he was making right at or over 100k. Peevey also didn't have ANY issues with BISD administration (contrary to popular belief

) and had a great feeder system in place, so also, it wasn't because of lack of talent. Coach left simply because he wanted to be closer to home, which is only 18 miles from LC-M vs 31 miles (plus the horrible IH-10 traffic) from his home to Beaumont. In conclusion, it may be somewhat better to obtain correct information vs. basing information from past situations that occurred almost 10 years ago.

IndianFan · May 6, 2021

Interesting. Stipends are common for coaches in all districts. Those are typically included in the public record as referenced from 3 years ago. If that wasn’t included in the referenced report from 2018 then that author should reconsider their sources.

I’ve heard the low head coach pay discussed for years in various public forums and from BISD school fans AND insiders. So I personally did not question the referenced article. I also know former employees who fled the district. If those reasons no longer exist then that’s terrific for BISD employees and taxpayers.

Good luck to Coach Peevey. He did a great job with leading Westbrook to the finals and sounds like he’ll enjoy being closer to home.

BMTSoulja1 · May 6, 2021

IndianFan said:
Interesting. Stipends are common for coaches in all districts. Those are typically included in the public record as referenced from 3 years ago. If that wasn’t included in the referenced report from 2018 then that author should reconsider their sources.

I’ve heard the low head coach pay discussed for years in various public forums and from BISD school fans AND insiders. So I personally did not question the referenced article. I also know former employees who fled the district. If those reasons no longer exist then that’s terrific for BISD employees and taxpayers.

Good luck to Coach Peevey. He did a great job with leading Westbrook to the finals and sounds like he’ll enjoy being closer to home.

Im happy for him as well. I respected what he did over there at WB. I’ll be following him at LC-M.

IndianFan · May 6, 2021

Hoping that Beaumont football can rediscover the levels it once attained. BISD was known across the country for producing NFL talent.

“IN 1974 BEAUMONT TEXAS WAS RECOGNIZED AS THE FOOTBALL CAPITAL OF THE WORLD BY ABC’S WIDE WORLD OF SPORTS, AND HOWARD COSELL AS IT’S SPOKESMAN. AT THAT POINT IN TIME, THE CITY OF BEAUMONT TEXAS HAD PRODUCED MORE NFL PLAYERS THAN ANY OTHER CITY IN THE WORLD.”