Rhett Lashlee is reportedly adding a high school coach to a key support staff position at SMU.
Mansfield Timberview HS (TX) head coach James Brown has stepped down to become the new director of scouting and high school relations at SMU, Matt Stepp shares via Dave Campbell's Texas Football.
Brown has spent the past 11 years leading the program at Mansfield Timberview, where they are coming off their best season under his watch. The Wolves went 13-1 last season and lost in the Class 5A-Division I Regional finals.
In over a decade with the program, Brown posted a 79-50 overall record and had four seasons with at least ten wins. He holds a 113-80 mark as a head coach over the past 17 seasons and has coached in the Dallas-Fort Worth area, and Houston and is from the El Paso area originally.
Stepp shares that Brown was nearing retirement from the public school system and was looking for a new challenge.
“I had felt like here soon I was going to retire from public schools, if not now, definitely after the 2023 season."
"One third of my career has been spent at Timberview. It was such an unbelievable run, but I was ready for a new challenge. I sat down with my wife and we talked about it. I knew I had felt a little complacency so I thought once that feeling crept in that it was time for something new and SMU was a perfect fit."
Lashlee and SMU are coming off a 7-6 debut season where Lashlee became the first SMU head coach since the early 80's to finish the year with a winning record and qualify for a bowl game.
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