Post by Admin on Apr 9, 2018 20:39:53 GMT
Story courtesy of Shreveport Times' Jimmy Watson
Twitter: @jimmywatson6
The current owner of three houses in north Louisiana, former Parkway football coach David Feaster is once again in the hunt for a coaching job after being relieved of his duties at D’Arbonne Woods in Farmerville, where he spent the past season.
“It was very disappointing to find out this late in the year and about a month after I purchased a house in Farmerville,” Feaster told The Times. “I spent the entire year planning to be back here and continuing to build this football program.”
Feaster was hired to be the athletic director and head football coach for the Timberwolves last May by then principal Pam Schooler, but she left during the past year after her husband landed the head football coaching job at Brusly, a place where Feaster had also applied before taking the D’Arbonne Woods’ job.
Just prior to Feaster arriving in Farmerville, the school had 21 seniors graduate and a number of additional athletes transfer schools when they thought the football program would be discontinued. The team finished 1-8 winning the season finale against Northwood-Lena, while competing in District 1-2A with Calvary, Lakeside, Mansfield and North Caddo.
“This time last year, they had also lost seven coaches and the athletic director. They decided to put the football coach and athletic director positions together and that’s what I applied for,” Feaster said. “They showed me the $50,000 base, teacher pay and the AD supplement, so it was about what I was making at Parkway.”
But principal Heath Murry removed the AD position and pay from Feaster a couple of weeks ago.
“That meant a significant pay cut. And once I objected strongly to the move, it would have been hard to continue,” Feaster said. “I wish I had applied for some of the jobs that were open earlier in the year.”
Feaster said he hasn’t ruled out the option to continue coaching and “influencing the lives of young men,” if a position comes open.
“But right now I just feel like going somewhere and teaching math,” he said.
Feaster’s wife, Shelly, teaches in Farmerville and they have one child who is a senior at Parkway. They are attempting to sell their home in Bossier City’s Plantation Trace, along with a 5-bedroom mobile home they purchased when they initially moved to Bossier.
Feaster was relieved of his coaching duties in February 2017 by Parkway principal Waylon Bates for what was termed “insubordination” by Feaster. He was 59-17 during his six seasons at the school, including a sterling 11-2 mark in 2017 when his team lost only to LHSAA Class 5A champ Landry-Walker and Division I champ Evangel. His only losing record at Parkway came in 2014 when the Panthers were forced to forfeit five games due to using an ineligible player.
Feaster ran successful programs at Many (1996-2003), Minden (2004-07) and Leesville (2009-10), compiling a 110-58 record along the way, prior to coming to Parkway. His overall record in 18 years was 168-66, according to published reports.
He ran afoul of the Parkway administration for reiterating on a radio interview that Alabama football recruiters were not welcome at Parkway primarily due to their recruiting of former Panther’s quarterback Brandon Harris, who eventually transferred from LSU to North Carolina.
Feaster retired from the Louisiana school system when he left Minden in 2007 for a brief stint in Sabine, Texas.
Feaster attended Mamou High School where he was the quarterback for a team coached by his father. He graduated from Louisiana Tech but did not play football at the collegiate level. He began his coaching career in 1981 as an assistant coach for Ronnie Chaumont at Jennings High.
Twitter: @jimmywatson6
The current owner of three houses in north Louisiana, former Parkway football coach David Feaster is once again in the hunt for a coaching job after being relieved of his duties at D’Arbonne Woods in Farmerville, where he spent the past season.
“It was very disappointing to find out this late in the year and about a month after I purchased a house in Farmerville,” Feaster told The Times. “I spent the entire year planning to be back here and continuing to build this football program.”
Feaster was hired to be the athletic director and head football coach for the Timberwolves last May by then principal Pam Schooler, but she left during the past year after her husband landed the head football coaching job at Brusly, a place where Feaster had also applied before taking the D’Arbonne Woods’ job.
Just prior to Feaster arriving in Farmerville, the school had 21 seniors graduate and a number of additional athletes transfer schools when they thought the football program would be discontinued. The team finished 1-8 winning the season finale against Northwood-Lena, while competing in District 1-2A with Calvary, Lakeside, Mansfield and North Caddo.
“This time last year, they had also lost seven coaches and the athletic director. They decided to put the football coach and athletic director positions together and that’s what I applied for,” Feaster said. “They showed me the $50,000 base, teacher pay and the AD supplement, so it was about what I was making at Parkway.”
But principal Heath Murry removed the AD position and pay from Feaster a couple of weeks ago.
“That meant a significant pay cut. And once I objected strongly to the move, it would have been hard to continue,” Feaster said. “I wish I had applied for some of the jobs that were open earlier in the year.”
Feaster said he hasn’t ruled out the option to continue coaching and “influencing the lives of young men,” if a position comes open.
“But right now I just feel like going somewhere and teaching math,” he said.
Feaster’s wife, Shelly, teaches in Farmerville and they have one child who is a senior at Parkway. They are attempting to sell their home in Bossier City’s Plantation Trace, along with a 5-bedroom mobile home they purchased when they initially moved to Bossier.
Feaster was relieved of his coaching duties in February 2017 by Parkway principal Waylon Bates for what was termed “insubordination” by Feaster. He was 59-17 during his six seasons at the school, including a sterling 11-2 mark in 2017 when his team lost only to LHSAA Class 5A champ Landry-Walker and Division I champ Evangel. His only losing record at Parkway came in 2014 when the Panthers were forced to forfeit five games due to using an ineligible player.
Feaster ran successful programs at Many (1996-2003), Minden (2004-07) and Leesville (2009-10), compiling a 110-58 record along the way, prior to coming to Parkway. His overall record in 18 years was 168-66, according to published reports.
He ran afoul of the Parkway administration for reiterating on a radio interview that Alabama football recruiters were not welcome at Parkway primarily due to their recruiting of former Panther’s quarterback Brandon Harris, who eventually transferred from LSU to North Carolina.
Feaster retired from the Louisiana school system when he left Minden in 2007 for a brief stint in Sabine, Texas.
Feaster attended Mamou High School where he was the quarterback for a team coached by his father. He graduated from Louisiana Tech but did not play football at the collegiate level. He began his coaching career in 1981 as an assistant coach for Ronnie Chaumont at Jennings High.