Frosty4024 Posted May 23, 2022 Report Share Posted May 23, 2022 1 hour ago, Cracker said: BREAKING: Allen finds its next head coach Allen High School will hire Midlothian Heritage coach Lee Wiginton as its new head coach. He will replace Chad Morris who resigned his position in mid May. Matt SteppMay 23 8:19 am For the second straight year, Allen ISD wasted very little time in their search for a head coach. On Monday, the district announced Midlothian Heritage's Lee Wiginton as the next head football coach for the Eagles. Wiginton, a native of Lampasas and the son of a coach, is well-respected around the state, as evidenced by his election as president of the Texas High School Coaches Association in July. He will serve as the organization’s president in the 2022-2023 school year. In 2020, he was named the THSCA's Grant Teaff Beyond the Game Award winner. A 21-year head coaching veteran, Wiginton's career featured stops at Bosqueville, Comfort and Mexia before arriving in Midlothian ISD to take over at Midlothian High in 2010. After five seasons leading the Panthers, Wiginton made an unusual move in 2015, going across town to open up MISD’s second high school, Midothian Heritage, where he's had good success. In six seasons at the helm at Heritage, Wiginton has a record of 60-17, with a 4A Division I regional final appearance in 2019 and back-to-back regional semifinal appearances in 2017 and 2018, suffering hearbreakers to Kennedale and Carthage, respectively. Wiginton has a career record of 157-89. Wiginton began his coaching career in 1993 as a junior high coach in San Angelo ISD. In his first season as a head coach at Bosqueville in 2000, he led the Bulldogs to their first ever 11-man playoff appearance. Wiginton has ties to Allen ISD superintendent Robin Bullock — prior to coming to Allen in 2013, Bullock spent thirteen seasons in Midlothian ISD administration and was on staff in 2010 when MISD hired Wiginton away from Mexia. Wellp. It was sort of an "in house" move. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cracker Posted May 23, 2022 Report Share Posted May 23, 2022 20 minutes ago, Frosty4024 said: Wellp. It was sort of an "in house" move. Kinda. I'm not mad about it, though. Everyone seems to think he's a solid guy on and off the field. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Horsefly Posted May 23, 2022 Author Report Share Posted May 23, 2022 Hopefully Allen hired someone who wants to be there and doesn’t see Allen as a stepping stone to something else in a year or two. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cracker Posted May 23, 2022 Report Share Posted May 23, 2022 33 minutes ago, Horsefly said: Hopefully Allen hired someone who wants to be there and doesn’t see Allen as a stepping stone to something else in a year or two. Yup! He's 51, so he's got time before thinking about retirement. We need some continuity. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Butterbean Posted May 29, 2022 Report Share Posted May 29, 2022 It would have been great if they could have got Todd Dodge on a 2 year contract and seen where it went from there. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Butterbean Posted May 29, 2022 Report Share Posted May 29, 2022 On 5/13/2022 at 10:13 AM, Horsefly said: Here is texasfootball top 5 candidates, 2 of them internal https://www.texasfootball.com/article/2022/05/13/5-candidates-to-be-the-next-head-coach-of-the-allen-eagles?ref=article_preview_title Coach Briles is by far the best high school coach in Texas maybe College too. But he's been blackballed almost everywhere from while he was at Baylor during the scandal and the administration told him to keep his mouth shut.. I met him and he's a very good man and no doubt a genius to boot. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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