Texans Named To The 2010 Parade All-America High School Football Team

January 31, 2010 By Leave a Comment

Nine (9) Texans were named to the 2010 Parade All-America High School Football Team. This is Parade Magazines 47th annual All-America High School Football Team. They chose 58 players from 24 states to make the team.

TEXAS PLAYERS
Position, Name, School, College
QB Scotty Young, Denton Ryan, Texas Tech
RB Traylon Shead, Cayuga, Texas
WR Darius White, Fort Worth Dunbar, Texas
WR Darius Terrell, Desoto, Texas
OL Jake Matthews, Fort Bend Elkins, Texas A&M
OL Shep Klinke, Katy, Texas A&M
DL Jackson Jeffcoat, Plano West, Texas
DL Taylor Bible, Denton Guyer, Texas
LB Corey Nelson, Dallas Skyline, Texas A&M

Filed Under: 2Ac, 3A, 4A, 5A, Central, DFW, East, Gulf Coast, Houston, North, Regions, West

Six Texans Will Represent USA

January 29, 2010 By Leave a Comment

The inaugural “USA vs. the World” game will be played on January 30th at 1 p.m. ET. This will be an official Pro Bowl Week event matching a team of American high school seniors against a team composed of players from eight different countries, spanning four continents.

USA Football, the sports national governing body on youth and amateur levels will hold the game in Ft. Lauderdale’s Lockhart Stadium immediately following AFC and NFC All-Star practices. The 2010 Junior National Team will consist of 45 of the countrys top high school seniors including six Texans.

TEXAS PLAYERS
Position, Name, High School, College
OL Josh Allen Cedar Hill — Minnesota
WR Sam Gagliano Waxahachie — Undecided
CB Josh Huff Irving Nimitz — TCU
S Bryant Jackson Sulpher Springs — Texas
OL Adam Shead Cedar Hill — Oklahoma
RB Dontae Williams Houston Aldine– Oregon

Filed Under: 2Ac, 3A, 4A, 5A, Central, DFW, East, Gulf Coast, Houston, North, Regions, West

Rick Owens named head coach and AD at Cuero

January 29, 2010 By Leave a Comment

Rick Owens, who was the Offensive Line Coach for the Cuero Gobblers has been named as Head Coach and Athletic Director.  Owens, who spent the last five seasons in the program, replaces Mark Reeve who left Cuero to take a job at Texas Lutheran.  His two year contract comes just as running back Trent Jackson is ready to step up and be the go-to guy for the Gobblers.  Jackson delighted the squad as a surprise star his Freshman year and followed it up last season with an impressive Sophomore season.

Filed Under: 3A, Central, Gulf Coast Tagged With:

Coaching Changes — Barbers Hill

January 27, 2010 By Leave a Comment

Barbers Hill has found a replacement for Head Coach and Athletic Director Don Price, who resigned last November 18th. Coach Price led the Eagles to a 99-35 record during his 12 years. He was the 2nd winningest coach in school history but the jump from 3A to 4A in 2006 was tough on them.

His teams had a record of 80-13 while in 3A or below from 1999-2005 but they were 24-17 since moving up to 4A…14-16 over last 3 years. This includes a 5-6 record last season and a fourth-place finish in District 19-4A, which ended with a bi-district loss.

Price had five perfect regular seasons during his time in Mont Belvieu, including 2006 which was their first year in 4A. His teams won six district championships and made the playoffs 9 of his 11 years. (Missed 2007 & 2008)

Coach Price was an assistant coach at Troup, Hawkins and Joshua and was head coach at Maypearl for 2 years before coming to Barbers Hill in 1992. He was the defensive coordinator from 1992-1993 beforing taking over as head coach. His overall record as high school head coach is 105-48-1.

His resignation was brought on by the school board which was unhappy with the state of the Eagle athletic program. They had created a position for him as assistant to the district’s assistant superintendent of planning and operations at his current salary of $98,800 per year. He agreed to the $153,000 buy out though of the final 18 months remaining on his contract as coach and athletic director.

To replace Price, Barbers Hill hired a recent inductee in the Texas High School Coaches Association Hall of Honor. Ronnie Gage who led Lewisville High School to Class 5A state championships in 1993 and 1996 has taken over the job. He was Athletic Director for Lewisville ISD from 2003-2006 and re-entered coaching at Austin College after that. Austin College which is a non-scholarship NCAA Division III program in Sherman, Texas went 13-17 over the last 3 seasons with Gage leading the way.

Coach Gage spent 12 years as an assistant at Lewisville High School before his first head coaching job at Justin Northwest High School from 1987-90. He finished with a 20-16 4 year record at Justin Northwest. The big story though is that he took over team that went 1-18 in the 2 years before he arrived. His 1st season he went 0-9-1 before turning it around and went 20-7 over the next 3 years. He was then head coach at Lewisville for 12 seasons where he went 119-46-3. Gage then took over the AD job of a school district that now includes five high schools.

Barbers Hill won the 1A state championships in 1971 and 1976, but has not advanced past the area round of the playoffs since 1999.

Filed Under: 4A, Houston

Coaching Changes — Spring

January 25, 2010 By Leave a Comment

Spring Head Coach Sonny Karas has retired after spending the last 21 years as the main man on the sidelines there. He led the Lions to the quarterfinal playoffs in 2002. His teams have run into troubles lately though by not making the playoffs since 2004 and going 2-8 last season. His ended his career at Spring with a 104-108-2 record.

His replacement will be Sam Parker. Coach Parker was the offensive coordinator at Tyler John Tyler last season. He helped John Tyler make it the regional quarterfinals. The year before that he was the offensive coordinator at Ennis where he got them to the Area round. From 2002-2004, Parker was on the University of Texas coaching staff that saw the team win three straight conference championships. He has been an offensive coordinator throughout his high school coaching career.

Karas Coaching Record at Spring
2009 13-5A 2-8
2008 13-5A 4-5
2007 16-5A 5-5
2006 16-5A 3-7
2005 22-5A 4-4
2004 22-5A 8-3
2003 15-5A 6-5
2002 15-5A 10-3
2001 15-5A 5-5
2000 15-5A 7-3
1999 16-5A 7-3
1998 16-5A 4-6
1997 21-5A 6-4
1996 21-5A 2-8
1995 21-5A 5-4-1
1994 21-5A 3-6-1
1993 16-5A 6-5
1992 16-5A 7-4
1991 15-5A 5-5
1990 15-5A 4-6
1989 15-5A 1-9

Totals 104-108-2

Filed Under: 5A, Houston, Regions Tagged With:

Coaching Changes — Cuero

January 23, 2010 By Leave a Comment

Cuero Head Coach Mark Reeve has resigned as athletic director and head football coach at Cuero and has accepted a position as the assistant head coach and defensive coordinator at Texas Lutheran University. Reeve will join the staff of Danny Padron at Texas Lutheran which is a NCAA Division III school in Seguin. Padron has been the athletic coordinator and head football coach at San Antonio O’Connor the past eight seasons and previously coached with Reeve at San Antonio Clark. Reeve and Padron coached together for 9 years at San Antonio Clark. Texas Lutheran is coming off an 0-10 season.

Reeve leaves Cuero after seven seasons during which he led the Gobblers to seven undefeated district championships, five state semifinal appearances in the last six years, and a trip to the 2004 state final. Reeve began his head coaching career at Victoria and was also a head coach at Plano West before coming to Cuero. He has an overall head coaching record of 192-37-4 (sixth highest winning percentage all-time in Texas) and went 84-11 at Cuero.

Reeve, who officially came out of retirement when he took the Cuero job was inducted into the Texas High School Coaches Association’s Hall of Honor in 2007. His son Travis was the offensive coordinator at Cuero.

The Gobblers went 13-1 last season and advanced to the Class 3A, Division I semifinals before losing 42-36 to eventual state champion Gilmer. They have won their last 34 home games under Reeve that dates back to 2003.

Filed Under: 3A, Gulf Coast, Regions Tagged With: ,

UIL Realignment Preview

January 22, 2010 By Leave a Comment

Realignment Data:

2008 enrollment #’s

5A – 2085 and above
4A – 980-2084
3A – 430-979
2A – 200-429
1A – 199 and below

Changes : 1A and 2A will be split into Division I and Division II prior to the season

CLASS 5A
Closing (1): Victoria Memorial.
Returning to Football (1): Houston Sam Houston.
New (2): Cypress Lakes, Cypress Ranch, Victoria East, Victoria West

Notables At 4A-5A Cutoff: Abilene Cooper (2,140), Denton Guyer (2,074), Longview (2,087), Del Valle (2,240), San Marcos (2,086), Cibolo Steele (2,134), Wylie (2,061), Cypress Ranch (1,998), Fort Bend Dulles (2,077), Tyler John Tyler (2,047), Smithson Valley (2,052), Rockwall (2,045), Victoria East (1,969), Victoria West (1,904), Baytown Lee (1,860), Stratford (1,924)

CLASS 4A
Leaving Football (1): SA Fox Tech
Return to Football (1): Dallas Spruce.
New (9): Cedar Park Vandergrift, Humble Summer Creek, Keller Timber Creek, Leander Rouse, New Caney Porter, SA Brennan, Trophy Club Nelson

Notables At 3A-4A Cutoff: Fort Worth Dunbar (879), Big Spring (974), Stephenville (1,034), Kilgore (994), La Marque (999), El Campo (998), Burnet (966), Abilene Wylie (947), Lucas Lovejoy (946)

CLASS 3A
New (6): Austin Eastside Memorial, Boerne, Frisco Heritage, Frisco Lone Star, North Forney, Rio Grande City #2.

Notables At 2A-3A Cutoff: Farmersville (438), Salado (467), Yoakum (448), Godley (423), Tatum (421), Kirbyville (431), Cameron Yoe (425)

CLASS 2A
New (3): Anderson-Shiro, Ponder, Sunnyvale.

Notables At 1A-2A Cutoff: Harleton (215), Groveton (223), Schulenburg (220), Three Rivers (214), San Augustine (204), Crawford (210), Junction (206), Canadian (194), New Deal (192), Albany (194), Garrison (197), Cayuga (191)

CLASS 1A
New (2): Savoy, Snook.

Filed Under: 2Ac, 3A, 4A, 5A, Central, DFW, East, Gulf Coast, Houston, North, Regions, West

Coaching Changes — Austin Lake Travis

January 20, 2010 By Leave a Comment

Austin Lake Travis head coach Chad Morris has accepted the position of co-offensive coordinator and quarterbacks coach at Tulsa University. Morris has been a Texas high school head coach for 16 years and has led the Cavaliers to back-to-back Class 4A state championships and a 32-0 record in his two years at Lake Travis.

Morris has a coaching record of 166-41 and has coached in six state championship games. He won three state titles (Bay City 2000 and Lake Travis 2008, 2009) and was the state runner up at Elysian Fields (1998, 1999) and Bay City (2001). He also won 11 coach of the year awards.

Coach Morris has coached some very good Quarterbacks during his career. He coached Mississippi quarterback Jevan Snead, Texas quarterback Garrett Gilbert along with Scott Elliott (Tulane), Andrew Smith (North Texas) and Kody Spano (Nebraska).

Coaching Record
Overall record: 166-41 (16 seasons)
1994-97: 26-16 Eustace
1998-99: 26-6 Elysian Fields
2000-02: 34-9 Bay City
2003-07: 48-10 Stephenville
2008-09: 32-0 Austin Lake Travis

Lake Travis also announced that defensive coordinator Hank Carter has been named as the Cavaliers interim head coach. Carter coached under Morris at Stephenville and Lake Travis.

Filed Under: 4A, Central Tagged With:

012010 – UIL Realignment Preview

January 20, 2010 By Leave a Comment

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MaxPreps All-America Sophomore Team Includes Five Texans

January 18, 2010 By Leave a Comment

Five Texas players were named to the Sophomore High School Football All-American Team by MaxPreps.

Running Backs Johnathan Gray (Aledo) and Trent Jackson (Cuero) were both named to the 1st Team with Gray being the Player Of The Year. Gray rushed for 2,670 yards with 45 TDs along with 457 receiving yards and 8 more TDs. Jackson ran for 2,562 yards with 33 TDs.

Wide Receiver Cayleb Jones (Austin High) 91 catches 1,140 yards 9 TDs, Offensive Lineman Hiva Lutui (Euless Trinity) 6-3, 275 and Defensive Back LaDarrell McNeil (Dallas Smith) were named to the 2nd Team.

Filed Under: 2Ac, 3A, 4A, 5A, Central, DFW, East, Gulf Coast, Houston, North, Regions, West
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