This Week in Texas High School Football: April 11

Randy Allen’s retirement lasts just three weeks After stunning the state and announcing his retirement from coaching three weeks ago, legendary Highland Park head coach Randy Allen had a change of heart this week and announced he was returning to the sidelines for the 2018 season. Allen, according to the Dallas Morning News, simply decided he still missed the players and coaches and wanted to be back in the mix. This is certainly a win for the Scots who were already going to be in a bit of transition after losing a great senior class that led them to back to back state titles. Crowley and North Crowley nearing hires Look for both Crowley High and North Crowley to have their new head football coaches introduced at the board meeting scheduled for Thursday April 12. Crowley by all indications has their next head coach and the decision has been made for at least a week, North Crowley is on a much tighter timeline as the position was just posted last week. NCHS conducted two interviews on Friday and another four interviews on Monday. Reports are the candidate was offered the job and accepted late Tuesday, sources indicate an assistant coach in the Dallas area will get this job. Whitehouse promotes Marcus Gold It’s been a great off-season for former Aggies who are in the coaching world as on Monday night Whitehouse ISD announced it was promoting defensive coordinator Marcus Gold to head football coach. Gold, who played at Texas A&M replaces Adam Cook who earlier this off-season was promoted to Whitehouse ISD Athletic Director. Earlier this off-season, former Aggie great Aaron Wallace was named head football coach at his alma mater, Dallas Roosevelt. Bay City hires Katy Seven Lakes offensive coordinator Patrick Matthews Monday night Bay City, announced its replacement for head coach Lupe Florez who left for Class 6A Clear Brook in March naming Katy Seven Lake offensive coordinator Patrick Matthews as head football coach/athletic director. Matthews, who will be taking his first head coaching position inherits a Bay City program that has been completely turned around after a few down seasons. Venus hires Kermit’s Jacob Bible Venus ISD on Monday night announced that Kermit head coach Jacob Bible was named as the district’s next head football coach/athletic director. Bible, who had spent the last two seasons in far West Texas, posted a 10-11 record at Class 3A Kermit. Prior to that, Bible was an assistant at Willis in the Houston area, an assistant at Waco Connally and was a head coach in his native Oklahoma at Blackwell. Jamie Dixon named at Vanderbilt Industrial Industrial ISD named Giddings offensive coordinator Jamie Dixon as its next head football coach at a board meeting Monday night. Dixon, who is currently also coaching girls track in Giddings, will be taking his first head football coaching position where he will look to turn the Cobras around in a tough district. Daingerfield promotes Nelson On Wednesday night, Daingerfield-Lone Star ISD school board interviewed the two finalists for the vacant head football coach/athletic director position. The board named named defensive coordinator Davin Nelson as the new head coach of the tradition rich program with a 5-2 vote. Nelson, a native of Tatum, came to Daingerfield with former head coach Mike Waldie after he served as Waldie’s defensive coordinator in Woodville. Jeff Smith leaves Brownfield for Hale Center After just one season leading Brownfield, Jeff Smith has departed to take the athletic director/head football coach position at Class 2A Hale Center after he was approved by the HCISD board Thursday night. Brownfield in 2018 will have its third head coach in three seasons when it hires a replacement. A big transfer in the Sun City One of our teams to watch in Class 5A Division II Region I was El Paso Parkland who advanced to the third round a year ago. The Matadors bring a strong team back and have a new addition this spring as WR Khatib Lyles transferred across town from El Paso Franklin to northeast El Paso and enrolled at Parkland. Lyles is a game breaking receiver and currently holds FBS offers from UTEP, Kansas and Air Force and his offer list should only increase this off-season. Spring football is approaching Spring football is right around the corner for 6A and 5A programs statewide, we will have a statewide listing of spring football games right here each week until the end of May.  If you’d like your spring game to be listed; send an e-mail to matt.stepp@texasfootball.com.  Here’s a listing of the spring games we currently have! May 4 Edcouch-Elsa, 6:00pm at Edcouch-Elsa HS May 10 Flower Mound, 6:00pm at Wilson Stadium Mansfield Timberiew, 6:00pm at Timberview HS Round Rock Cedar Ridge, 7:30pm at Cedar Ridge HS May 14 Katy Cinco Ranch, 6:30pm at Legacy Stadium Lufkin, 6:00pm at Martin Stadium May 15 Denton Braswell, 7:00pm at Braswell HS Fort Bend Travis, 6:30pm at Travis HS Keller Central, 7:00pm at KISD Stadium Laredo United, 6:00pm at United HS May 16 Amarillo Tascosa, 7:00pm at Bivins Stadium Pearland Dawson, 6:00pm at Dawson HS Victoria West, 6:00pm at Memorial Stadium May 17 Cedar Hill, 7:00pm at Longhorn Stadium Denton Guyer, 6:30pm at Guyer HS Dickinson, 5:00pm at Vitanza Stadium Flower Mound Marcus, 7:00pm at Marcus HS Keller, 7:00pm at KISD Stadium Little Elm, 5:30pm at Little Elm ISD Athletic Complex Manor, 6:30pm at Manor ISD Stadium Mansfield Legacy, 6:00pm at Legacy HS Richardson, 6:30pm at Eagle-Mustang Stadium San Angelo Central 6:30pm at San Angelo Stadium Waco Midway, 6:00pm at Panther Stadium Wichita Falls, 7:00pm at Memorial Stadium May 18 Alief Elsik, 6:00pm at Crump Stadium Amarillo Palo Duro, 6:00pm at Bivins Stadium Burleson Centennial, 6:00pm at Centennial HS Cleburne, 7:00pm at Cleburne HS Cypress Fairbanks, 4:00pm at Cy Fair HS Granbury, 6:30pm at Pirate Stadium Houston Westside, 5:00pm at Westside HS Hurst Bell, 6:00pm at Pennington Field Joshua, 7:00pm at Owl Stadium Lake Travis, 7:30pm at Cavalier Stadium Port Lavaca Calhoun, 6:00pm at Sandcrab Stadium Red Oak. 6:00pm at Red Oak HS Richardson Pearce, 7:00pm at Eagle-Mustang Stadium Victoria East, 7:00pm at Memorial Stadium Weatherford, 6:30pm at Kangaroo Stadium May 22 Abilene, 6:00pm at Shotwell Stadium Arlington Lamar, 6:00pm at Cravens Field Clear Springs, 6:00pm at Clear Springs HS Conroe Oak Ridge, 6:00pm at Oak Ridge HS Cypress Bridgeland, 6:00pm at Bridgeland HS DeSoto, 6:30pm at Eagle Stadium Grapevine, 6:00pm at Cross Timbers MS Mission Veterans Memorial, 6:00pm at Veterans Memorial HS Rockwall, 7:00pm at Wilkerson-Sanders Stadium South Garland, 6:00pm at HBJ Stadium May 23 Arlington Sam Houston, 5:00pm at Wilemon Field Arlington Seguin, 6:30pm at Seguin HS Belton, 5:00pm at Tiger Field Colleyville Heritage, 6:00pm at Heritage HS El Paso Pebble Hills, 7:00pm at Pebble Hills HS Saginaw Boswell, 6:00pm at Pioneer Stadium May 24 Alice, 7:00pm at Memorial Stadium Arlington, 6:00pm at Arlington HS Arlington Bowie, 6:30pm at Bowie HS Arlington Martin, 7:00pm at Martin HS Cedar Park, 7:15pm at Cedar Park HS Cibolo Steele, 6:00pm at Steele HS College Station, 6:00pm at CSHS Cougar Stadium El Paso Eastlake, 6:30pm at Eastlake HS El Paso Franklin, 7:00pm at Franklin HS Frisco Lone Star, 6:00pm at Lone Star HS Frisco Memorial, 6:00pm at Memorial HS Haslet Eaton, 6:00pm at Eaton HS Killeen, 7:00pm at Killeen HS Lancaster, 6:30pm at Tiger Stadium Mesquite Horn, 6:30pm at Horn HS Mesquite Poteet, 6:00pm at Memorial Stadium McKinney Boyd, 7:00pm at Boyd HS McKinney North, 6:30pm at McKinney North HS Midlothian, 6:30pm at MISD Stadium North Forney, 6:00pm at City Bank Stadium San Antonio East Central, 6:00pm at Hornet Stadium San Antonio O’Connor, 6:00pm at O’Connor HS Tyler John Tyler, 6:00pm at John Tyler HS Waco, 5:30pm at Waco ISD Stadium Waller, 5:30pm at Waller ISD Stadium May 25 Dallas South Oak Cliff, 7:00pm at Life Oak Cliff HS El Paso Americas, 7:00pm at Americas HS El Paso Del Valle, 5:30pm at Conquest Stadium El Paso Parkland, 6:00pm at Parkland HS Fort Worth South Hills, 5:30pm at South Hills HS Fort Worth Southwest, 6:00pm at Southwest HS Hallsville, 6:30pm at Bobcat Stadium McAllen Memorial, 6:00pm at Memorial HS Trophy Club Nelson, 6:00pm at Byron Nelson HS May 29 Sachse, 6:00pm at Sachse HS June 1 San Antonio McCollum, 6pm at Memorial Stadium Coaching Clinics With the off-season starting that means it’s also clinic season throughout the state of Texas,  here’s a listing of clinics from around the state, if we don’t have you clinic listed e-mail it to us at matt.stepp@texasfootball.com May 5-6: Best Little Clinic in Texas, Wingate Hotel and Conference Center, Round Rock http://www.hcfc-blc.com May 25-26: Gateway to Mexico Clinic, Laredo June 12-14: Angelo Coaches Clinic, San Angelo http://www.angelofootballclinic.com/index.html June 14-15: Dos Amigos Ranch Football Clinic, Kickapoo Lucky Eagle Casino-Hotel, Eagle Pass July 22-25: 2018 THSCA Convention & Coaching School, Henry B. Gonzalez Convention Center, San Antonio http://www.thsca.com/convention