With a new coach on The Bluff, so too has come a new offensive scheme for the Bayside Academy Admirals.

While Barrett Trotter enters his first year as a head coach, he played at the SEC level and coached at the NFL level before returning to the high school ranks. The offseason saw an overhaul of the offensive playbook and senior Tait Moore said the receivers now have a different goal for this season compared to those previous.

“I want this receiver group to make a footprint for the future because we’ve never been a throw-first team so people in younger classes, they grow up watching Bayside football and have been thinking, ‘I want to be a running back,’” Moore said at Gulf Coast Media Day. “Now that we’re going to start airing it out, maybe it’ll just put a spark in somebody to say, ‘Hey I want to be a receiver, I want to do what some of what these other guys are doing.’”

Key Storylines

-Barrett Trotter, a former Briarwood Christian and Auburn quarterback, takes over the Bayside Academy Admirals and looks to implement an aerial attack on the Eastern Shore.

-Bayside Academy owns a four-year postseason streak and returns nearly all of last year’s starters on both sides of the ball.

Top Quote from Media Day

“They’ve come to work every day and have all given great effort, been willing to learn something new that doesn’t necessarily come naturally,” head coach Barrett Trotter said. “It’s like learning Chinese when you first start; it’s brand-new terminology, it’s a brand-new system and that can be difficult. Especially not having a background of that style of offense so these guys as a whole team have really picked up and embraced what we’re doing.”