Tidehaven selects AD/football coach
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Jim Sides was looking for an opportunity to coach in a smaller town and he found one.
Sides has been selected as the athletic director and head football coach at Tidehaven.
The Tidehaven school district board of trustees approved hiring Sides by a 6-0 vote at Wednesday night's meeting.
Sides was the offensive coordinator at Class 3A Royse City last season, and he will officially begin his duties in El Maton on July 1.
Sides will replace Shawn Woods, who resigned after two seasons at his alma mater to become an assistant coach at Bay City.
"I have two kids of junior high age," Sides said. "I wanted to get away from the Metroplex area and get to a smaller town and get them settled someplace."
Sides has been at Royse City for five of the previous six years. He left in 2007 to become the head coach at Cross Plains and returned to Royse City after going 0-10.
Royse was also the head coach at Runge in 2001 and 2002 and had an 0-19 record. He was previously an assistant coach at Smithson Valley, New Braunfels Canyon and Luling.
Suzanne Wesson, superintendent of the Tidehaven school district, said the district received 81 applications for the position and interviewed eight candidates before selecting Sides.
"I feel like this person is the right fit," Wesson said. "He's willing to go into a place and be a catalyst to turn around the program. He cares about all sports and he understands the importance of the athletic director's position. We felt like he has the motivation and the passion to do the job."
Sides runs the same spread offense that Tidehaven did last season. The Tigers lost to Refugio in the Class 2A, Division II bi-district playoffs and finished with a 4-6 record.
"Everything kind of fit," Sides said. "They run the same offense and have the same terminology as I do. That really helps out, especially coming in this late in the game."
Sides has a number of coaching positions to fill and has already visited with some of the Tidehaven athletes.
"When I was interviewing, there were a few kids around lifting weights," Sides said. "It looks like they have some good athletes there."
