In the fourth of a lengthy series of articles throughout the spring talking to coaches, players and icons in the Texas football community, Texasfootball.com visited with new Hightower coach Gene Johnson, who spent last spring on Mike Stoops' coaching staff at Arizona.
After a stellar 12-3 season at Klein Forest in 2003, Johnson shelved his successful high school coaching career to start at the bottom of the college coaching ladder. In January of 2004, Johnson headed to Arizona as a graduate assistant coach on offense for new head coach Mike Stoops, who had recently arrived in Tucson from his brother, Mike's, staff at Oklahoma.
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