Which Districts Have the Best Head Coaches After Realignment?

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6A: District 17-6A (Channelview, Crosby, Galena Park North Shore, Humble, Humble Atascocita, Humble Kingwood, Humble Summer Creek, Sheldon C.E. King)

Galena Park North Shore's Willie Gaston

• 43-4 record in three seasons a Galena Park North Shore head coach
• Reigning Class 6A DI State Champion
• One state championship as North Shore Quarterbacks Coach from 2008-15, three state championships as Offensive Coordinator from 2016-2022
• As an offensive coordinator, won 2018 title after star running back was ruled out right before kickoff and won 2021 title with freshman quarterback Kaleb Bailey

Humble Summer Creek's Kenny Harrison

• 141-68 record over 17 years as TXHSFB head coach (Port Arthur Memorial, Humble Summer Creek)
• Three state semifinal appearances as head coach (Port Arhthur Memorial in 2011, Humble Summer Creek in 2023 and 2024)
• Has led Humble Summer Creek to four regional final appearances in the last five years

Sheldon C.E. King's Cory Laxen

• Led C.E. King from 5-5 to 13-3 and first-ever state championship appearance in his first season as head coach.
• Named Class 6A Coach of the Year in Dave Campbell's Texas Football Magazine
• North Shore offensive line coach for a decade, winning four state championships

Humble Atascocita's Kyle Coats

• 11-2 record with The Woodlands College Park in 2025 was the deepest playoff run in school history and the first undisputed district championship 
• Led The Woodlands College Park to second win in program history in 2024
• Defensive Coordinator on 2022 DeSoto state championship team

Humble's Robert Murphy

• 12-18 record over three seasons at Humble
• Served on New Caney's staff from 2016-21, helping Eagles to 42-15 record with four-straight district championships and the first ever undefeated regular season and playoff win in program history

Humble Kingwood's Stacy Williams

• Entering first season as Humble Kingwood's coach
• Served as assistant head coach and defensive back coach at The Woodlands from 2021-25, posting a 47-15 record
• In 2025, The Woodlands allowed just 15 points per game and recorded four shutouts

Channelview's Clarence McKinney

• Interim head coach for Channelview in 2026
• Former Texas Southern head coach
• Veteran college assistant coach at Houston, Texas A&M, and Arizona
• Went 28-10 in three years as Houston Yates head coach from 2005-07

Crosby's Jabara Williams

• Entering first season as Crosby head coach
• Defensive coordinator for back-to-back playoff appearances
• Star linebacker on back-to-back Southland Conference Championship teams at Stephen F. Austin
• Played for the St. Louis Rams, Chicago Bears, and Dallas Cowboys

5A: District 3-5A DII (Argyle, Colleyville Heritage, Eagle Mountain, Grapevine, The Colony, Lovejoy, Nevada Community)

Argyle's Todd Rodgers

• 7th among active TXHSFB coaches with 269 career wins
• 7th among active TXHSFB coaches with 68 career playoff wins
• 10th among active TXHSFB coaches with 16 district championships
• 269-47 record over 23 seasons at Argyle
• Six State Championship appearances (2005, 2011, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2020)
• Two State Championship wins (2013, 2020)
• 22 consecutive playoff appearances
• One season under ten wins since 2008 (9-3 record in 2023)

Lovejoy's Todd Dodge

• 2nd among active TXHSFB coaches with seven state championships
• 7th among active TXHSFB coaches with 73 playoff wins
• 9th among active TXHSFB coaches with 249 career wins
• 249-81 career record over 25 seasons as head coach (Lovejoy, Austin Westlake, Marble Falls, Southlake Carroll, Keller Fossil Ridge, Cameron)
• Coach of two three-peat state championships (2004-06 at Southlake Carroll, 2019-21 at Austin Westlake)

Colleyville Heritage's Jerry Edwards

• 80-64 career record over 13 seasons (Colleyville Heritage, Harker Heights)
• 27-9 record over three seasons at Colleyville Heritage
• 12-2 record in 2023 was tied for the best season in program history
• Made state quarterfinals with 12-2 record in final season at Harker Heights (2022)
• Made playoffs in each of his last four seasons at Harker Heights

Eagle Mountain's Jeremy Mullins

• 69-42 career record over 9 years (Tolar, Eagle Mountain)
• Led Tolar to first state championship appearance in program history (2023)
• In 2021, led Tolar to just second ten-win season in program history (Tolar established in 1934), then won at least ten games in for the next two years
• Improved Eagle Mountain from 3-8 to 8-4 in his second season with the program

The Colony's Rudy Rangel

• 105-93 record over 19 years as The Colony's head coach
• Longest-tenured head coach in school history

Nevada Community's Adam Arteaga

• Went 1-9 in first season at Nevada Community
• Won two district championships in three years as offensive coordinator at San Antonio Pieper
• WR coach on Cedar Park's 2020 state finalist team

Grapevine's Ryan Smith

• Went 1-9 in first season as TXHSFB head coach at Grapevine (inherited 0-10 team)
• Led Southwestern Assemblies of God University to first back-to-back winning seasons in program history in 2020-21. 

4A: 11-4A DI (Bay City, El Campo, Navasota, Needville, Royal, Sealy, West Columbia)

El Campo's Travis Reeve

• 117-56 record over 14 years as TXHSFB coach (Cuero, New Caney, El Campo)
• Has made playoffs in 13 of 14 years as TXHSFB coach
• Won the 2018 state championship at Cuero, reached the state semifinals in 2015, state quarterfinals in 2016 and 2017
• Led New Caney to the best season in program history (established 1955) with 11-1 record in 2022
• 18-16 record over past three seasons at El Campo

Sealy's Clint Finley

• 74-42 record over 10 years as TXHSFB coach (Sealy, Big Spring, Los Fresnos)
• 21-6 record over past two years at Sealy, the first back-to-back double-digit win seasons since the four-peat state championship run from 1994-97
• Six-straight winning seasons at Los Fresnos from 2010-15

Bay City's Robert Jones

• 44-26 record in six years as Bay City HC
• Has made it to at least the second round of the playoffs in each of the last four seasons 
• Inherited a program that had two winning seasons from 2008-19 and 

West Columbia's Earnest Pena

• 21-14 record over three seasons as West Columbia HC
• Back-to-back bi-district championships, first seasons with back-to-back playoff wins since 2011-12

Brookshire Royal's Theadis Reagans

• 29-24 record over five seasons at Brookshire Royal's HC
• Made playoffs in three of five seasons after inheriting a program that had not made the playoffs in a decade

Needville's Jared Sloan

• Entering first season as Needville head coach
• 34-38 record in seven years as a TXHSFB HC (Hardin-Jefferson and Rice Consolidated)
• Helped Hardin-Jefferson rebound from 2-8 record to 7-4 record in 2016
• Led Rice Consolidated to 11-2 district championship season in first year as head coach in 2018, which was the first district championship since 2009

3A: District 7-3A DI (Commerce, Eustace, Malakoff, Mineola, Mount Vernon, Emory Rains, Winnsboro)

Malakoff's Jamie Driskell

• 181-40 record over 17 seasons at Malakoff
• Three state championship wins (2018, 2023, 2024)
• Inherited a program on a 1-19 skid and has never won fewer than eight games in a season
• Malakoff has made the playoffs in all 17 seasons under Driskell

Winnsboro's Josh Finney

• 143-56 record over 17 seasons as TXHSFB coach (Winnsboro, Mount Vernon, Hull-Diasetta, Teague, Maud)
• One losing season in 17 years (4-7 mark in 2013 at Hull-Diasetta)
• At Winnsboro, inherited a 2-8 program and compiled a 63-21 record
• At Winnsboro, won at least double-digit games in three straight seasons (2022-24) for the first time since the program began in 1914
• 11-1 record at Mount Vernon in 2017 was the best season since 1950
• His 2007 and 2008 teams at Maud are the only in program history (established 1970) to win double-digit games 

Commerce's John McSheffery

• 33-31 record over six seasons as Commerce HC
• 9-3 record in 2025 was best season since 2002
• 7-4 record in 2023 was first winning season since 2014

Mount Vernon's Travis McClain

• 17-15 record over three seasons as TXHSFB coach (Mount Vernon and Bogota Rivercrest)
• In first season at Mount Vernon, turned team around from 2-8 to 6-5
• In 2024 at Bogota Rivercrest, flipped team from 3-7 to 8-3

Emory Rains' Bryan Oakes

• 6-63 record over 7 seasons as TXHSFB coach (Emory Rains and Quitman)

Mineola's Cody Moore

• Entering first season as Mineola head coach
• Started Denton Braswell football program and served as head coach from 2015-22, compiling 27-45 overall record
• Went 9-3 and won school's first district championship in 2019
• Spent the last two years as Rockwall-Heath's offensive coordinator under legendary head coach Rodney Webb

Eustace's Phillip Smith

• Entering first year as Eustace head coach after serving as defensive coordinator

2A: District 15-2A DI (Bloomington, Danbury, Flatonia, Ganado, Kenedy, Shiner, Weimar)

Shiner's Daniel Boedeker

• 85-16 record over seven seasons as Shiner's HC (on staff at Shiner since 2000)
• Four state championship appearances as HC (2020, 2021, 2024, 2025)
• Two state championship rings (2020, 2021)
• Has won at least 11 games in six of seven seasons

Ganado's Josh Ervin

• 47-10 record over four seasons as Ganado head coach
• Won Ganado's first state championship in program history in 2024 (program began in 1928)
• Ganado has made at least the third round of the playoffs in each of the last three seasons

Kenedy's Mike Jackson

• 182-112 record over 27 years as TXHSFB coach (Kenedy, Conroe Grand Oaks, La Marque, Houston Chavez, Houston Milby, Houston St. Pius, Charlotte, Robstown, Shiner St. Paul)
• At Kenedy, 10-3 record in 2025 was first ten-win season since 1978
• Started football program at Conroe Grand Oaks and had a winning season all four years
• Made the playoffs every year from 2011-17 at La Marque, including three 11-win seasons in 2011, 2012 and 2014. 
• Winning season in each of his last four years at Houston Chavez (program has had one winning season since he left after 2010)
• 10-3 record at Charlotte in 1999 hasn't been matched by the program since

Weimar's Dylan Conway

• 18-23 record over four seasons as TXHSFB coach (Weimar and Snook)
• Led Weimar to an 8-3 record in first year as head coach
• His 2021 playoff team at Snook is still the most recent in program history

Bloomington's Lane Shands

• 7-13 record over two seasons as Bloomington's HC
• 4-6 record in 2025 was tied for the best season since 1999

Flatonia's Matt Uzzell

• 5-25 in three seasons as TXHSFB coach (Flatonia and San Antonio McCollum)
• Flatonia improved from 1-9 to 5-5 in his first year as HC

Danbury's John Launius

• Entering first season as Danbury head coach
• Most recently on staff at Rosenberg Lamar Consolidated, over 30 years of TXHSFB experience