Marble Falls softball coach resigns; football team snags two coaches from Burnet

JENNIFER FIERRO • PICAYUNE STAFF

MARBLE FALLS — Marble Falls High School athletic director and head football coach Todd Dodge announced some changes to the department July 9.

Head softball and assistant volleyball coach Tino Salazar has resigned, while Tim Hulon and Doug Wilson have joined the football staff.Dodge received Salazar’s resignation within the past 24 hours, he said.

“He resigned from the school district entirely,” he said. “I found out (July 9). That’s all I can say.”

Salazar was hired as a volleyball and softball assistant coach for the 2007-2008 year. He took over as head softball coach when David Orsag retired after the 2009-2010 school year.

Salazar was the head coach at Bandera before he came to Marble Falls when Orsag was the head coach at Wharton. And the two kept their eyes on each other’s teams.

Dodge said the position was posted on various websites July 9.

The resignation puts Marble Falls on a tight deadline for landing a replacement.

“It’s very late in the (hiring) process,” he said. “We’re four days out from anybody getting out of contracts.”

Meanwhile, Dodge hired two football coaches for the upcoming season, and both hail from Burnet.

Wilson will be the running backs coach after serving as the offensive line coach for the Bulldogs. He replaces Shelton Gandy, who resigned to return to his home in the Dallas-Fort Worth area.

Hulon will be a freshman football and subvarsity baseball coach. The position was never filled once Trey Young took the reins of the girls soccer program last year.

The Mustangs skipper said he was thrilled to have both join his staff.

“Doug is a guy we think is an outstanding coach,” he said. “He has a lot of experience.”

Wilson and offensive coordinator Bill Poe were teammates at Hardin-Simmons University, Dodge said. Wilson’s experience of coaching linemen will only make the running backs better, he said, because he’ll be able to teach pass protection in a way that illustrates what the lineman are doing and how the running backs should adjust.

Hulon and Dodge have known each other for two decades when the two were at McKinney High School from 1989 to 1991. The two ran into each other again when Dodge was hired at Marble Falls in January 2012.

jfierro@thepicayune.com