In a surprise move on Thursday afternoon, Decatur head coach Steve Huff announced he was resigning his post to take over as the athletic coordinator/head football at Chickasha High School in Oklahoma, which has a 4A enrollment of 753 students. 

“My time at Decatur has been wonderful," Huff said. "The support from this community is tremendous and it’s in all sports. The administration has been great. The future is bright, we have a great group of kids coming through the pipeline. We played 13 sophomores a year ago. The move really works great for my family. I’ve got family in Missouri and Oklahoma. My daughter is starting school in Kansas next year and my son's at Central Oklahoma, so being further north just really works great for my family."

Huff has spent the past four seasons as Decatur’s athletic director and head football coach posting a 36-18 overall record. He led the Eagles to the 4A-Division I state semifinals in 2022 and 2023. 

He spent a total of 12 seasons as a head coach in Texas rolling up an impressive 124-37 record, with the high-water mark being in 2017 when he led College Station to a stunning upset of Aledo in the 5A-Division II state championship game. 

Huff has spent much of his career in College Station. He was an assistant coach at A&M Consolidated from 2000-2006, serving as the Tigers offensive coordinator from 2003-2006.

After serving as the head coach at Midwest City High School in Oklahoma from 2007-2012, where he posted a 60-12 record in six seasons, Huff returned to College Station to open up the brand new College Station High School. 

Coach Huff immediately turned the Cougars into a powerhouse, leading CSHS to the regional semifinals in 2015, a state semifinal in 2016, the aforementioned state title in 2017 and a state finalist appearance in 2021 where the Cougars fell in overtime to Katy Paetow. 

Additionally, Huff has served as head coach at Oklahoma City Grant, Kennewick, Washington High School, Tecumseh, OK High School and DeSoto, MO High School. Huff’s decorated coaching resume also includes stops in the college game at Kansas, Western Michigan and North Dakota. 

Decatur ISD will now have to decide if they want to post their AD/HFC job this late in the game and possibly have a limited pool of candidates or do they want to go the same route they went in 2021 after the departure of Mike Fuller. The district named Ty Lang interim head coach and waited for the season to finish before posting the job and drawing interest from across the state before landing Huff.