This Week in TXHSFB: Temple to Magnolia; Hirschi Has Their Guy; Spring Game Dates Set

Fort Bend Dulles promotes OC
After former head coach J.L. Geist departed to take over at San Antonio Clark, Fort Bend ISD stayed inside to find his replacement as offensive coordinator Shane Byrd was promoted last Friday to become head football coach at Fort Bend Dulles. Byrd will likely keep much of the same pieces in place from last year’s Vikings squad that posted an 8-3 mark.

Temple-to-Magnolia pipeline continues
On Thursday, Magnolia ISD announced that Temple OC Craig Martin would be named new head football coach at Magnolia High School. This continues the pipeline that’s been built in Magnolia from the Mike Spradlin coaching tree. Spradlin, who became the athletic director in Magnolia ISD in early 2015 after a stint as the HFC/AD in Temple, immediately brought Temple DC J.D. Berna to be the head coach at Magnolia West HS. The HC at Magnolia was Sterling Doty, who had ties to Spradlin from his days as an assistant at Abilene Cooper under Spradlin. Spradlin left MISD in late January to get back on the sidelines as head coach at Rockwall-Heath, causing MWHS head coach J.D. Berna to be promoted to the district AD job. Berna promoted his offensive coordinator, Blake Joseph, to the role of head coach at Magnolia West at the end of February. Martin, the district’s newest coach spent the last two seasons as the offensive coordinator at Temple and was hired originally at THS in 2011 by, you guessed it, Mike Spradlin.