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Legendary coach Neal Quillin will be inducted into the Texas High School Coaches Association Hall of Honor July 22 at the Hyatt Regency in Austin. Coach Quillin was the Head Coach at Fort Bend Willowridge, Langham Creek, Nimitz and Humble during his career.
Quillin retired from coaching in 2004, but decided to accept the position as defensive line coach at Atascocita High School. This allows him to work alongside his son John Quillin, who is the Eagles offensive coordinator.
As Humbles head football coach for 15 years (1990-2004, 110-56-3 record) , Quillin led the Wildcats to the Class 5A Division II semifinals in 1995 and the Touchdown Club of Houston rewarded him with the John Kelley High School Coach-of-the-Year Award.
In 1982, Quillin guided Willowridge (1980-1983, 44-8 record) to a perfect record and 4A state championship. The previous season, he was named the Houston Chronicle Coach-of-the Year for leading the Eagles to the state finals.
Throughout his career, Quillin has coached numerous NFL football players, including former Buffalo Bills All-Pro and Hall-of-Fame running back Thurman Thomas. When giving his 2007 Hall-of-Fame induction speech, Thomas mentioned the positive impact Quillin had on his football career at Willowridge High School.
Congratulations Coach Quillin. A big Lone Star salute goes out to you.
By: Michael Wright
Lone Star Gridiron
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El Paso Americas has announced that Patrick Melton will be their new head football coach and athletic coordinator. Melton was the defensive coordinator at Pasadena last year. He has nine years experience as a coach. Four of those as a defensive coordinator. The Americas job will be his first as a head football coach.
Melton inherits a team that went 10-21 the past three seasons under Rick Miller. The Blazers were 1-9 last year and have won just three district games the past two seasons.
By: Michael Wright
Lone Star Gridiron
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The University Interscholastic League announced Monday that beginning with the 2010 season, Class 1A football teams will be divided into two divisions. The 1A school superintendents from across the state voted and the ballot passed by a margin of 203 to 65.
Class 1A schools with the largest enrollment will play in Division I and schools with smaller enrollments will compete in Division II. Both divisions will consist of 16 districts. Each district will send two teams to the playoffs.
Currently, each district advances three teams to the playoffs, with the largest enrollment school from each district playing in Division I playoffs and the two remaining schools advancing to the Division II playoffs.
The Class 1A cutoff numbers for programs are between 100 and 199. The UIL will decide before the realignment takes place in 2010 on what the cutoffs are for the new division. It could be something like 100-150 for Division II and 151-199 for Division I.
The playoff format really clears up with these changes. The runner-ups from districts play winners from neighboring districts. This will put more weight on a district title. Before, a team with the biggest enrollment was in Division I, district title or not.
Also, teams will play similarly sized schools throughout the season and in the postseason.
Possible Advantages:
• Provides more clarity and less confusion regarding who is Division I and who is Division II.
• Clearly defines divisions prior to the season rather than at the end of district play.
• Creates more equity in relation to the largest and smallest school within a division.
• Eliminates two schools with the largest enrollments in the state advancing to the playoffs in the smaller enrollment division.
• Eliminates the smallest schools in a conference grouped with the largest schools in a conference.
Possible Disadvantages:
• Additional travel.
• Other team sport activities could want the same division alignment.
• Creates an additional group of schools that will be the smallest within a division.
• Creates administrative inconvenience.
• Scheduling issues could occur in multi-school districts that share stadiums.
Lone Star Gridiron is behind this. We (I) have always been against the current format. I am excited to see this change. Hopefully, the other classifications will follow.
Here are links to .pdf files that the UIL is using for case studies. These are drafts of what each division could possibly look like. Very Interesting.
Class 1A Division I
Class 1A Division II
Class 2A Division I
Class 2A Division II
Class 3A Division I
Class 3A Division II
Class 4A Division I
Class 4A Division II
Class 5A Division I
Class 5A Division II
By: Michael Wright
Lone Star Gridiron
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Odessa Permian has shocked and delighted Texas High School football fans by announcing that the new Head Coach will be the former Permian coach Gary Gaines. Gaines of Friday Night Lights fame will be presented on Thursday.
Gaines returns to the Mojo after being the Lubbock Independent School District athletic director for the last two years. Coach Gaines was an assistant coach at Permian from 1979-1981 and head coach from 1986-1989. The Panthers won Class 5A state championships in 1980 and 1989. His head coaching record at Permian was 46-7-1. The Panthers won the mythical national championship in 1989.
Coach Gaines left after the 1989 season to become the linebackers coach at Texas Tech. He also compiled a 21-30 record as the head coach at Abilene Christian from 2000 to 2004. He was a head coach for 17 years in Texas, posting 111-75-6 record. He coached at Petersburg, Monahans (1983-1985 24-7 record), Permian, Abilene (1994-1995 4-15 record) and San Angelo Central (1996-1999 14-28 record). He was named the ECISD athletic director in January 2005. He resigned from that position in 2007 to take the same job for the Lubbock ISD.
MOJO….MOJO….MOJO
By: Michael Wright
Lone Star Gridiron
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Frisco Liberty’s Head Coach Joe McBride has accepted the position as the Head Coach of the Coppell Cowboys. McBride led Liberty to a 5-5 record in Class 4A last season in its first varsity season.
McBride coached for 8 years as an assistant at Lewisville Hebron. He was the defensive coordinator when Hebron won the Class 2005 Division II state championship.
Coach McBride will replace the very successful Bob Shipley, who left for 3A Brownwood after 2 seasons. McBride was not the first choice for the job. Coppell first offered the job two weeks ago to Conroe Caney Creek Head Coach Glenn Hill. Hill decided Coppell wasn’t a good fit. The job was then offered to Navasota Head Coach Lee Fedora but Fedora declined the offer. Spring Westfield Head Coach Corby Meekins visited Coppell Last week and also opted not to take the position.
By: Michael Wright
Lone Star Gridiron
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San Antonio Churchill Head Coach Carl Gustafson is reported as taking the position as assistant athletic director in the North East ISD. Gustafson will be leaving Churchill after 10 seasons.
Gustafson compiled a 46-57 record at Churchill with three winning seasons and two playoff appearances. He is a 1980 Churchill graduate. His father, Marvin, coached at the school in the 1970′s.
Gustafson also coached two seasons at New Braunfels Canyon. He has a career mark of 61-65 in 12 seasons.
By: Michael Wright
Lone Star Gridiron
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Texas Tech gets another big time Texas Quarterback. Denton Ryan’s outstanding young quarterback, Scotty Young has verbally committed to play for the Red Raiders in 2010.
Young is one of the best quarterbacks in the state. He had a spectacular junior season, throwing for 4,495 yards and 65 touchdowns. The 65 touchdowns was just two shy of former Red Raider QB Graham Harrell’s Texas high school record of 67 single season touchdown passes. He was also named to the Texas 4A all-state second team as a junior after leading his team to the Class 4A Division I Region I Semifinals.
Harrell’s success as the most prolific passer in college football had a very big impact on Young. One of Scotty’s coaches at Denton Ryan is Zac Harrell, Graham’s older brother. Coach Harrell was a great resource for Scotty and one of the reasons he committed to the Red Raiders.
Young also had offers from Arizona, Baylor, SMU, Houston, and Texas Tech and is hearing from schools like LSU, Oklahoma, Notre Dame, and Texas.
By: Michael Wright
Lone Star Gridiron
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Lufkin’s Senior defensive lineman JaMarkus McFarland was the winner of the 2008 Maxwell National High School Player of the Year award. The award is voted on by members of the Maxwell Club, sports writers and coache. This award honors the nations top high school football player.
Last year’s award winner was Terrelle Pryor, who now plays for Ohio State University.
Other awared winners at the ceremony were:
Tim Tebow (Maxwell Award winner for College Player of the Year)
Adrian Peterson (Bert Bell Award winner for Professional Player of the Year)
Tennessee Titans’ head coach Jeff Fisher (“Greasy” Neale Award for Professional Coach of the Year)
Texas Tech head coach Mike Leach (George Munger Award for College Coach of the Year)
USC’s Rey Maualuga (Chuck Bednarik Award for College Defensive Player of the Year)
Steve Sabol (Francis “Reds” Bagnell Award)
Chris Fowler, Kirk Herbstreit and Lee Corso (Harrah’s Broadcast Award for Sports Broadcaster of the Year).
By: Michael Wright
Lone Star Gridiron
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Mike Mullins has been announced as the new Athletics Coordinator and Head Football Coach at Harker Heights High School. Mullins was the Head Coach at Cameron Yoe for the last six years.
Mullins coached the Yoemen to a 42-26 record in his six seasons including four playoff appearances. He has an 81-59 overall record in his 13 years of coaching with 10 playoff appearances. Before taking over the Head Coaching job at Cameron he was their Offensive Coordinator three years. His other head football coaching experience includes stints at 3A Gilmer and 4A Angleton. He also served as Offensive Coordinator at A&M Consolidated where he coached with former Harker Heights coach Ross Rogers.
Rogers guided the Knights in their first seven seasons where he led the Knights to the playoffs in six of his seven years. The district title in his and the school’s first season is a feat no other Texas coach had ever accomplished.
Mullins will be just the third Head Coach Heights has ever had. He beat out 62 other applicants to replace Todd McVey who resigned to take an Assistant Athletic Director position with Katy ISD. In two seasons as head coach McVey was 2-17.
Mullins Coaching Career
42-26 Cameron Yoe 2003-2008
17-13 Gilmer 1997-1999
22-20 Angleton 1993-1996
By: Michael Wright
Lone Star Gridiron
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