PHARR - David Evans' second chance is over.

Two years after landing at Valley View following a hazing scandal cost him his job at Donna in the spring of 2005, Evans confirmed Friday he was reassigned Thursday afternoon by Valley View ISD superintendent Leonel Galaviz. Evans, who had a rolling one-year contract, will keep his salary, which was $81,000 when he was hired in December of 2006, but said he is looking for another coaching job.

Evans said flatly he wasn't expecting to be reassigned from his roles as head football coach and athletic director. He said the only explanation he was given was that the school "wanted to take the program in a different direction."

"You have to respect what they feel they need to do," Evans said. "I'm a professional, and this is a violent profession that we're in and that's their prerogative. I have no hard feelings for them.

"They gave me the job for two years and I guess they felt like they could find somebody who could get them where they want to get better than I could."

In those two seasons with the Tigers, Evans went 1-19. His only victory at Valley View was a 7-6 upset of Mercedes during the 2007 season. Evans hoped to be able to build off that win but won't be given the chance.

Clearly, Evans feels he needed more time to build the program, one which has been in existence for only three seasons.

"The worst part is that I felt like they made a commitment for me to build them an athletic program," Evans said. "I relocated myself over here and moved my family and put my kids in this school. I can't say that two years was a fair amount to really build. There was no timelines put on that. That's their prerogative."

Neither Galaviz nor Valley View principal Rolando Ramirez returned numerous phone calls and messages left on their mobile phones.

Between his time at Donna, which ended with a 2004 District 31-5A title and overall record of 54-33 and four district titles, and his tenure at Valley View, Evans tried to stay active in the sport. He briefly had a volunteer assistant coaching job at Texas A&M-Kingsville, but lost it when officials at the school found out about what had happened at Donna.

Evans, who has a career record of 101-81-1, finally got back into coaching for the 2007 season, getting the job at Valley View thanks to a 4-3 vote at a meeting on Dec. 18, 2006 that stretched past midnight. At that meeting, the Valley View board discussed whether it should hire a coach who had been fired for presiding over a program which was tarnished by the arrest of three seniors for hazing an underclassman football player.

Now, almost two years to the day of his hiring, Evans is once again looking for a job. He reflected fondly on his time with Valley View and the challenges that come with trying to build a program.

"There was a lot of fun and there was a lot of tough times, trying to get people to change attitudes," Evans said. "All in all, it was a really unique and fulfilling experience."