Marble Falls’ Matt Green: Football staff must be good fit in classroom, other sports
JENNIFER FIERRO • PICAYUNE STAFF
MARBLE FALLS — During his first official day on the job, new Marble Falls High School head football coach and athletic director Matt Green attended a meet-and-greet in his honor hosted by the Marble Falls Athletic Booster Club on June 2.
It was a chance to talk to club members and answer several questions.
At the top of his to-do list is to interview coaches to fill eight vacancies. His goal is to first hire a defensive coordinator, he said.
“Some (interviews) are for the same position,” he said. “It gives myself some options. I want to hire as quickly as I can.”
He said he targeted specific coaches to join him at Marble Falls, though he declined to give names.
There hasn’t been a shortage of willing coaches wanting to work with Green and junior Mustangs quarterback Brennen Wooten, who currently holds offers from Texas Christian University, Clemson, Houston, Akron, Kentucky and Tulsa and is expected to receive more.
“They want to learn this offense,” Green said about his players. “You have to have help. You have to eagle eyes on the field. There’s absolutely a huge role.”
He noted he has two challenges. He has to match candidates with open teaching jobs, and some applicants are married to teachers, who also will need jobs.
“It’s not cut and dry,” Green said.
Most of the former football staff followed either former head coach Todd Dodge to Austin Westlake in May or former offensive coordinator Bill Poe to Justin Northwest.
“I’m bringing in the highest caliber of coaches I can,” Green said.
He noted these coaches will be part of the football staff and will assist in other sports, including baseball, track and field and powerlifting. He also wants those coaches to be excellent in the classroom.
Green also emphasized that he looks at all sports and both genders equally, adding he was married to a volleyball coach for 13 years.
“I was always affiliated with girls athletics,” he said. “I was always very partial to girls athletics. I always enjoyed being a part of girls athletics.”
Green said incoming eighth- and ninth-grade football players will begin learning the offense and defense July 7-11 during the Mustang Football Camp, which will be used as a precursor for fall training camps.
Communication is important to him, Green said, so he plans to send out a weekly schedule to parents that shows what time practices and other football-related activities are. That will be sent by email, he said.
Green’s previous job was at Lucas Lovejoy, where he guided the Leopards to a 19-5 record in two seasons as the head coach.
“I know God puts you in places, and he controls your life,” he said. “He opens the doors.”
jfierro@thepicayune.com