Only 220 days after he helped snap a 24-game losing streak, the Cris Bell Era is over in Robertsdale after the head football coach resigned from his position on Monday.

The Golden Bears opened the 2024 season with their first win since Sept. 24, 2021, thanks to a 31-0 shutout of Chickasaw in Bell’s first contest of his debut season. Robertsdale followed that up with a 13-10 win over the Elberta Warriors then finished 2-8 overall with an 0-7 mark in its first season in Class 7A Region 1.

Bell is coming off his 13th season as an Alabamian head coach after stints at Scottsboro (18-15 over three years) and Oak Mountain (47-49 over nine years). His overall record moved to 67-72 with a 3-6 mark in the postseason.

Now searching for a third head football coach in as many years, the Golden Bears have become the lone Baldwin County team without a head football coach. Kyle Stanford, recently announced as Spanish Fort’s newest defensive coordinator, was relieved of his head coaching duties at Robertsdale entering Week 8 of the 2023 season, which was his fifth year at the helm.

Stanford (8-37 over four-plus seasons) was preceded by Chase Smith — the current head coach of the Spanish Fort Toros who was the last to serve a single season as the Golden Bears’ head coach — Brian Campbell and Scott Phelps. Smith went 2-8 in 2018, Campbell went 11-49 from 2012-17 and Phelps went 13-47 from 2006-11.

Robertsdale’s last winning season came in 2001 when it won Class 5A Region 1 with a 6-1 mark as part of a 10-3 overall record. Then-head coach Jay Koziol, the current defensive coordinator at UMS-Wright, also led the Golden Bears’ last playoff run in 2004 which was the penultimate season of a seven-year stint where Robertsdale went 27-48 from 1999-2005.