BALDWIN COUNTY, Ala. — The Bobby Moore era begins at Baldwin County High this fall and he believes turning the Tigers around begins in the school halls and the community side walks by renewing interest and excitement for the program.

Moore, a 30-year coaching veteran, was hired to replace David Wofford this spring after the Tigers finished 0-10 last season. BCHS has fielded a football team since 1920 and last year’s winless mark was only the Tigers’ second losing season since then.

“We’re trying to change our culture,” Moore said. “As far as tradition goes, there is a tradition here. We’ve had one 0-10 season in the history of our school. That is not a trend but a blip on the map. Tradition is something to build on, but you have to move forward.”

Moore, who came from Paul Bryant High in Tuscaloosa, added that he plans to attract more athletes back to the sport and hopes the success of the recent baseball and basketball programs at BCHS will help. At last count, including freshmen, about 90 players were out for the 2011 team.

“Baldwin County High school, if you go back to its 90 years of tradition I think it has been pretty good,” Moore said. “It has been slack lately, but I think it is a giant that has gone to sleep and needs waking up.”

Moore said changing the attitude surrounding the program is one of the most important things that a coach taking over a struggling team can do. He has experience turning around football programs, taking an 0-10 Bryant Stampede team to the playoffs after just three seasons.

“Any time you lose for several years I think the thing that sticks out is the attitude,” Moore said said. “Attitude is so important to the things we do. It is the little things like how you dress, how you act, those kinds of things that can fall by the wayside. You can take what I call a ‘losing attitude’ and that’s the biggest thing we’ve had to change over the last three months.”

Moore brought in new staff to work with Tiger players to revisit fundamentals as well as expand to newer or less familiar schemes.

“We have to try some different things on offense,” he said. “We will spread it some and then bring it in. We really need to be able to run and throw from different sets.”

Nate Jones returns as the Tigers’ starting quarterback with sophomore Andre Davis expected to take some snaps as well. Ronnie Davis will play running back, and receivers Garret Stewart and Buzz Cabaniss and tight end Will Cooper return. Jonathon Jordan, Jordan Mudrich, Jordan Sellars, Denzil Johnson and Forrest Garner will play on the offensive line.

“The bulk of our returners are on defense, and I think that’s where we can hang our hats early on until the offense grows up,” Moore said.

Linebackers Andrew Peagrum, D.J. Mix and Jacob Harrison and defensive linemen Chris Norman and Dalton Overstreet are pegged as key players on Moore’s defense. Byron Barnes, Justin Stevens, Kareem Brown, Tommy Jackson, and Kendrick Lawson will play in the secondary.

“I want to put a product on the field that is going to go out there every week and play hard to try to win a football game,” Moore said. “How many games we win depends on a play here or a play there. Hopefully through the course of the season we will learn to make those plays and we’ll win more than we lose.”

The Tigers open the season on Friday at home against Theodore. They travel Sept. 2 to face defending 6A champion Daphne.

They host region foes McGill-Toolen (Sept. 9) and Fairhope (Sept. 16) but must travel to play 5A defending champion Spanish Fort (Sept. 23) and Foley (Sept. 30).