stangstampede Posted April 22, 2013 Share Posted April 22, 2013 Two, maybe three years tops and he will get the same treatment! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SteelJacket Posted April 22, 2013 Share Posted April 22, 2013 Two, maybe three years tops and he will get the same treatment! Maybe in two or three years he gets a better offer and moves back up to 3A-5A........just saying. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BIGPOPPY Posted April 22, 2013 Share Posted April 22, 2013 Hope the guy doesn't ride in to town and tell all the other teams how bad he is going to beat them like he did the Lufkin Panthers. Didn't work out to well for him. Remember that like it was yesterday. Funny stuff! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stangstampede Posted April 22, 2013 Share Posted April 22, 2013 Maybe in two or three years he gets a better offer and moves back up to 3A-5A........just saying. There's no question he will have better offers!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rock95 Posted April 22, 2013 Share Posted April 22, 2013 There's no question he will have better offers!! maybe so! But for now he's EF head coach. (NOW GIVE ME 3 CLAPS) 🏈 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SteelJacket Posted April 22, 2013 Share Posted April 22, 2013 By Tyler Clifton [email protected] The Marshall News Messenger ELYSIAN FIELDS – There’s no place like home, and Marshall’s Scott Ford is coming back to East Texas. The former Maverick football player from 1986-88 who played collegiately at Sam Houston State and the University of North Texas and spent the last season as Hidalgo’s athletic director/head football coach, resigned on Friday to move closer to home and take the same position at Elysian Fields vacated earlier by former boss Eric King. The Yellowjackets went 11-4 and are coming off a season in which they advanced to the Class 2A Division II state semifinals before losing to eventual champion East Bernard. King’s contract wasn’t renewed after 11 months of turmoil and uncertainty, but Ford hopes to continue the program’s rise. “They’re definitely committed to winning, and I’m concerned about continuing to do so and doing it in a classy way and communicating in the right manner,” Ford said. “I think it’s going to be a really good fit.” Ford comes to Elysian Fields from Class 3A Hidalgo, a town located close to the Mexican border, where he took at team which was forced to forfeit all wins from the 2011 season and went 7-4 with a district championship which wasn’t decided until an overtime victory on the final day of the regular season. The 32-3A champions played more than half their district campaign without star freshman quarterback Shea Patterson, who has already verbally committed to attend the University of Arizona in 2016. Ford is a numerous Coach of the Year recipient and has played for and coached with the likes of Todd Dodge. “I think Hidalgo will continue to be successful and had a tremendous coaching staff,” Ford said. “They’ll continue working hard, and when you put things into context, it was a tremendous success story, and I’m very thankful for the time I had there. It couldn’t have been a better story or more fitting ending.” Ford inherits a winning program for the first time, one which has been to three state championship games and advanced to the state semifinals in Waco one year ago. He plans to begin work Wednesday. “I’m extremely excited to be here and was overly impressed with the interview committee,” Ford said. “I’ve got some guys who are very interested in joining me here, but I owe it to a staff which went to the state semifinals to meet and give them the opportunity to share their vision of this work in progress.” It hasn’t always been easy, as Ford was 4-16 in a two-year stint at Nacogdoches as head of a Dragon team which was grouped with Marshall and Hallsville in District 14-4A during the 2010-11 seasons. “If I could go back in time, I would change some things, but there are no ill feelings toward Nacogdoches, and I always hope they find a way to be successful,” Ford said. “It just wasn’t the right fit. “I want to continue and do things the way they were here which allowed these kids to be successful and obviously put my touch on it and cater to the ability of the kids. It’s an on-going evaluation type deal with the kids, but those who do know me realize I like to run and gun, and most people do these days.” Ford, who is 80-45 in his career which also includes two stints at Class 5A Los Fresnos for a total of seven seasons in the Rio Grande Valley for 65 of his victories. It included three straight trips to the third round of the playoffs, as Ford also spent one season at Class 4A Joshua as well as stops as an assistant at three other schools in Cleburne, Killeen Ellison and Leander, where good friend Clint Harper spent five seasons (three as an assistant and two as head coach) before coming back home to coach Marshall in February. “I wish Clint nothing but the best at Marshall, and I’m glad to be returning home as well,” said Ford, who is looking forward to making the move with his wife of 16 years Kelli and 10-year old son Parker, who was named after former Maverick head coach and Ford’s fellow coach at Nacogdoches Dennis Parker, a man Ford looks up to in the coaching ranks and has a state championship on his resume from 1990. “It’s a very positive situation coming back home, and I’m really looking forward to spending some time with family and friends more than in the past, playing some golf and doing some hunting and fishing.” Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SteelJacket Posted April 23, 2013 Share Posted April 23, 2013 From some of the atricles I have read Coach Ford is supposed to sign today and start tomorrow. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rock95 Posted April 23, 2013 Share Posted April 23, 2013 Yes sr.( SJ) EF will have a brand new (FORD) F450 super duty turbo diesel tomorrow. PS. Give me three claps. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EastTexasFootballFan Posted April 23, 2013 Share Posted April 23, 2013 Does it have a radio and air conditioning? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rock95 Posted April 23, 2013 Share Posted April 23, 2013 Does it have a radio and air conditioning? (ITS LOADED) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
getusome Posted April 24, 2013 Share Posted April 24, 2013 Best of luck Mr. Ford Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
upullinmychain Posted April 24, 2013 Share Posted April 24, 2013 Dam, more drama than Days of our lives, , if this was at a hospital instead of a school, y'all could make some money wit this story. Good luck dudes, every time I visit this thread , I bring a bag of popcorn . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BillyClydePuckett Posted April 24, 2013 Share Posted April 24, 2013 I have been extremely critical of the way EF handled this process and their treatment of their former HC. Having said that what is in the past is in the past and I wish both EF and Coach Ford nothing but the best of luck. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
crappie101 Posted April 24, 2013 Share Posted April 24, 2013 Same circus, different clown. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
question Posted April 24, 2013 Share Posted April 24, 2013 Same circus, different clown. When will be treated to the cannonball act ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stangstampede Posted April 24, 2013 Share Posted April 24, 2013 When will be treated to the cannonball act ? It's a high wire act without a net for anyone going into that place!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
codynorman Posted April 24, 2013 Share Posted April 24, 2013 Yall need to get a life. Why are Yall so worried about what we are doing? We are just fine. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rock95 Posted April 25, 2013 Share Posted April 25, 2013 It's a high wire act without a net for anyone going into that place!! stangstampede you just mad about what EF done to y'all in the playoffs lol get over it go tell y'all's coach to put in a passing game maybe you would've had a chance to beat EF lol. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Landry Posted April 25, 2013 Share Posted April 25, 2013 stangstampede you just mad about what EF done to y'all in the playoffs lol get over it go tell y'all's coach to put in a passing game maybe you would've had a chance to beat EF lol. They've learned everything they run from Pewitt. Would you expect any different in the passing game. But hey they do run the slot t better!! Snicker snicker!! 3 rounds and DONE!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HS1988 Posted April 25, 2013 Share Posted April 25, 2013 They've learned everything they run from Pewitt. Would you expect any different in the passing game. But hey they do run the slot t better!! Snicker snicker!! 3 rounds and DONE!! Same clown, different circus. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Landry Posted April 25, 2013 Share Posted April 25, 2013 Same clown, different circus.[/quote Yep just like when I went to that circus several months ago when I went to your game against EF. Thought I was paying to see a great show from the mustangs on how to run the slot t, all I saw were some donkeys trying to look like some bulls!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
codynorman Posted April 25, 2013 Share Posted April 25, 2013 Thats funny right there. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HS1988 Posted April 25, 2013 Share Posted April 25, 2013 Same clown, different circus.[/quote Yep just like when I went to that circus several months ago when I went to your game against EF. Thought I was paying to see a great show from the mustangs on how to run the slot t, all I saw were some donkeys trying to look like some bulls!! Well I guess if you wanted to see a football game in the post season, you had to go some where. You can come watch HS play after your bunch is done this year as well. You may as well get used to it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BillyClydePuckett Posted April 25, 2013 Share Posted April 25, 2013 I dont know that HS actually has the skins on the wall to talk smack to PP about football. The last seasons scoreboard okay but when your best season is three rounds deep I would be REALLY careful ripping on people who go that deep or further several times every decade not to even mention a State Championship. Correct me if I am wrong burt does not PP have two or three years in the last ten that is better than HS has EVER done? Your kids did a great job this past season, but all this bumping of lips about how great you are is REALLY boring. If you were half as good as you think you would not have to be bumping your chest quite so much about it. The results would stand for themselves.The really great programs do not have to run around crowing to everyone who will listen about how relevant they are. Oh and for the record I do not have a dog in this fight. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
crappie101 Posted April 25, 2013 Share Posted April 25, 2013 I dont know that HS actually has the skins on the wall to talk smack to PP about football. The last seasons scoreboard okay but when your best season is three rounds deep I would be REALLY careful ripping on people who go that deep or further several times every decade not to even mention a State Championship. Correct me if I am wrong burt does not PP have two or three years in the last ten that is better than HS has EVER done? Your kids did a great job this past season, but all this bumping of lips about how great you are is REALLY boring. If you were half as good as you think you would not have to be bumping your chest quite so much about it. The results would stand for themselves. The really great programs do not have to run around crowing to everyone who will listen about how relevant they are. Oh and for the record I do not have a dog in this fight. Yea cause daingerfield fans never go around bumping their chests, (assuming you are a dfield fan). Df is a really great program, so is gilmer, and all they do is bump chests with anybody that will! Make no mistake, let the braymers win a few, and the screen names pop up everywhere, and the we're better than you is certainly a week long arguement. I am just happy for all the successes of EAST TEXAS Football (even EF)! Fyi I think HS went 4 rounds this year. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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