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Lee grid staff gets to business By Dave Rogers Published July 25, 2009 Robert E. Lee’s 2009 football coaching staff has a definite air of familiarity to it. Neither new head coach Marvin Sedberry, Jr., nor longtime Gander fans will have to look too far to feel at home as this year’s staff of 12 assistants will be comprised equally of holdovers from past Lee staffs and newcomers brought to town by Sedberry, a product of the Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex. Longtime assistants David Hackney, Paci Cantu and Jeff Adams are back, as are more recent hires Milford Stephenson, Jason Austin and Aaron Pohl. The 31-year-old Sedberry, who is only the Ganders’ sixth head coach since 1940, followed through on the pledge he made when hired in February to bring along longtime coaching friends Dustin Blann from Fort Worth Poly and Brandon Carder from Dallas Lake Highlands. Other newcomers include Brad Shea, Corey Sims and Gene Gonzales. Sedberry will have each coach work with the varsity, then double up with a subvarsity team. It wasn’t until the last few weeks that the new Gander Commander has had most of his assistants together in the Lee High School Fieldhouse. And with a few of the new coaches still trying to move their families and one still to be hired, they’ve all been working at a breakneck pace since their return from a trip to coaching school in Austin to get things ready for the 2009 season, the practices for which begin Aug. 3. The good news is all five of the newcomers hired by Sedberry are already on the same page and the new head coach has had four months to work with those left from the staff of former Lee coach Dick Olin. “Even though some of the coaches have just arrived, the benefit of our staff is that for the most part, they know each other,†Sedberry said. “They have experience working together or being in the same type of program.†Sims attended college with Sedberry at Texas A&M-Commerce and comes here from a coaching job in Paris, Texas. Shea, a college teammate of Carder, comes from Richardson Pearce and his dad was assistant principal at the school where Sedberry began his coaching career, Lake Highlands. Gonzales and Sedberry coached together at Fort Worth Poly. Blann, 33, was receivers coach at Lake Highlands when Sedberry was the offensive coordinator there and followed Sedberry to Poly, where Sedberry had his first head coaching job, in 2007 and 2008. He will be Sedberry’s assistant head coach and tutor quarterbacks. “I had coached for two years before coach Sedberry and I arrived at Lake Highlands at the same time,†said Blann, a Waco native and Baylor grad who was Poly’s offensive coordinator the past two years. “Sedberry’s a hardworking guy and extremely loyal. Ever since I met him, I’ve been with him. I think a lot of him. Everything Sedberry needs me to do, that’s what I’ll do.†Carder and Sedberry met as junior high school coaches in the Richardson school district and worked together at Lake Highlands. He comes to Baytown after being defensive backfield and head track coach at Lake Highlands and will be Sedberry’s defensive coordinator. “Some people are in this just for a job, but I want to be a head coach, also,†Carder, 37, said. “And now I’m here with my boys.†Sedberry named 32-year-old Stephenson, an Alief Hastings grad who played offensive line for Kansas State and the San Francisco 49ers, his offensive coordinator. This is his third year at Lee and he will continue to work with the offensive line. “This is a collaboration,†Sedberry said of his offensive scheming. “Everybody is working toward a common goal: we’re trying to win. “We’re all on the same page. Coach Blann learned the system with me and it’s easy to merge Milford in, because he’s on board. He has the knowledge and experience to jell very well.†Sedberry won’t be hemmed in to define his offensive and defensive philosophies by narrow terms and his assistants back him up. “It doesn’t matter what defense you run,†Carder said. “You’ve got to line up and stop the other guy. You might be a 3-4 guy, but when the other guy’s got a tight end, you’re going to end up with four or five guys on the line.†Stephenson said he didn’t switch his thinking on anyone’s account. “I’ve heard this since I was little,†he said. “’There’s always two ways to skin a cat, but at the end of the day you’re trying to do one thing and that’s win.’â€

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Bobcats settling in with Huckabay Van Wade The Orange Leader ORANGEFIELD — First-year Orangefield head football coach and athletic director Brian Huckabay is excited about lining all the ducks up in a row as the Bobcats await two-a-days, which start up Aug. 3. Huckabay was bouncing around the fieldhouse Thursday with enthusiasm. “It’s getting close, and that just makes you that more excited,†said Huckabay. “I’m excited about the kids we have here. The turnout this summer has been very good. The kids seem excited and ready to go. Aug. 3 can’t get here quick enough.†Coach Huckabay’s varsity coaching staff is intact. Derek Peveto returns and head basketball coach Rea Wrinkle and head baseball coach Jeff Bennett have both moved up to the varsity staff. Former Little Cypress-Mauriceville, West Orange-Stark and Deweyville assistant Brian Waguespack is at Orangefield now after being at Deweyville last season. Former Bridge City standout Toby Latiolais is also new to the staff along with Murdock Havard and Alan Baxter. Huckabay, who has head-coaching stints at Hardin-Jefferson, Wharton, Paul Pewitt and Hull Daisetta, was the assistant principal at Hull-Daisetta last year. The move to become athletic director at Orangefield allows Huckaby’s wife, Mary, to stay on as superintendent of Hull Daisetta Independent School District. Huckabay has had quite a bit of success in his other posts, including a superb 63-27 mark at Paul Pewitt. Now he will try to turn around a program which went 1-7 in 2008 and has not made the playoffs since 2003. “As a staff, we’ve really gotten to know the kids over the summer and they’re getting to know us,†said Huckabay. “We’ve used the summer as a get-to-know process and it has worked out well.†Huckaby knows he will have the support of a tremendous community which always turns out in huge numbers at all Orangefield games. “Orangefield supports all of its kids in every sport well, that’s always been the case,†said Huckabay. “The summer has been great, but we’re all ready to go to work for real and we’re less than two weeks away. The excitement is building.†A couple Bobcats, Logan Moss and Cole Durkin, expected to play key roles this season, were sweating pumping some iron in the weightroom Thursday. “Two-a-days can’t get here quick enough,†said Moss. “We’re all excited and working hard this summer. Coach Huckabay has big plans for us. His workout plans are much tougher, both in the weightroom and on the track.†“I think we’re ready for two-a-days more than ever this year,†said Durkin. “All of us have been up here this summer more energized than ever.†The Bobcats return 20 letter winners, including eight starters on offense and six on defense. “We’ve got a lot of good guys back,†said Moss, a linebacker last year. “We’re just waiting on those first few days of practice to see what kind of schemes and plays that Coach Huckabay is going to install.†“We’re really excited about going into the season,†said Durkin. “I’m sure things are going to be different, learning a new system and all but we’re all fired up about it.†The Bobcats will begin the 2009 on Aug. 28 with a road trip to face East Chambers.

It may be tough this first year!

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