This Week in Texas High School Football: April 20

Crowley ISD brings in two new coaches Thursday night Crowley ISD held a special school board meeting to name football coaches at both high schools. Crowley High named Fort Worth South Hills head coach J.J. Resendez as its next head football coach/campus coordinator. Resendez, who has been head coach at South Hills for eight years, has posted a 54-30 mark, including a 42-12 record the past five seasons. He’s led South Hills to back to back district titles and has led the Scorpions to consecutive ten win seasons becoming the first school from Fort Worth ISD to accomplish this feat since 1979. Resendez prior to taking over at South Hills had been an assistant at Haltom, Fort Worth Eastern Hills and North Crowley. North Crowley is bringing on Dallas Lincoln offensive coordinator Courtney Allen to be their next head football coach. Allen has previously been an assistant at Fort Worth Wyatt and Lancaster before he became the Dallas Lincoln offensive coordinator prior to the 2016 season.  Because of the late hires of both coaches, both Crowley and North Crowley will forego spring football and will instead start fall practice a week early and participate in two scrimmages in the pre-season instead of just one. Zapata hires Joel Lopez As had been rumored, Zapata brought a native son home last Wednesday hiring former Laredo Alexander head coach Joel Lopez to be the next head football coach/athletic director at ZHS. Lopez spent the last twelve seasons as the head coach at Laredo Alexander posting a 78-64 record before being reassigned in January by United ISD. Prior his tenure at Alexander, Lopez was head coach at Laredo Nixon from 1999-2005. Lopez replaces Mario Arce who spent the last 23 years in Zapata, 16 as the head football coach. Rocky Smart resigns at Clyde In a bit of a surprise move out of the Big Country on Wednesday, Clyde head football coach/athletic director resigned his post after six seasons leading his alma mater. Smart led the Bulldogs to the playoffs in five straight seasons and had a solid 41-25 record in his six-year stint. Prior to his time at Clyde, Smart was the head football coach at Seymour. Smart told DCTF Wednesday he was not leaving Clyde to take another head football coaching position but was seeking a new opportunity in the coaching world. Elkhart tabs Jason Fiacco as head coach Elkhart on Monday night named Yoakum offensive coordinator Jason Fiacco as head football coach/athletic director. Fiacco, a native of Wisconsin, was the Bulldogs’ offensive coordinator in 2016 when they played for a state title and now he’ll get a chance to lead the Elks in his first head coaching position. Mathis brings in Mesquite Poteet assistant On Friday, Mathis announced it was hiring Mesquite Poteet special teams coordinator/defensive line coach Bo Camacho as its next head football coach. Camacho, a native of San Angelo, is a 24-year veteran of coaching with stops at Dallas Kimball, PSJA, San Benito, LaFeria, San Antonio Highlands and Del Rio before spending the last three years at Mesquite Poteet. Camacho takes over for Rod Blount who left Mathis to take over at Geronimo Navarro. Rice Consolidated hires Jared Sloan from Hardin-Jefferson Rice Consolidated named Hardin-Jefferson head coach Jared Sloan as its next head football coach/athletic director on Monday evening at its board meeting. Sloan, who spent the last three years at Hardin-Jefferson, was previously an assistant at Richmond George Ranch before making the move to the Golden Triangle in 2015, Sloan replaces Gary Zeinert who resigned in March. Lindsay doesn’t look far for new head coach Lindsay ISD only needed to look about 10 miles west to name its next head football coach/athletic director as Muenster DC Jeff Smiley was named to the position at a board meeting Monday night. Smiley was the defensive coordinator for the Hornets state title team a year ago and now he moves to Lindsay which is Muenster’s biggest rival and their annual matchup will have a bit of extra spice to it in 2018. First 7-on-7 SQT of the summer next week Next Saturday, April 28, we will have our first State Qualifying Tournament as 24 teams will descend on The Star in Frisco to compete for one of three spots in the 2018 7-on-7 State Tournament. Pool play will begin at 9 a.m. and the pools and game times will be released by DCTF on Monday around 1 p.m. 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 Keller Fossil Ridge, 6:00pm at Fossil Ridge HS Little Elm, 5:30pm at Little Elm ISD Athletic Complex Manor, 6:30pm at Manor ISD Stadium 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 Mansfield Legacy, 6:00pm at Legacy HS 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, 7:00pm 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 Dallas Skyline, 5:30pm at Forrester Field 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