Beyond the Lights: Football Across Texas
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Show overview
Beyond the Lights: Football Across Texas has been publishing since 2024, and across the 2 years since has built a catalogue of 85 episodes. That works out to roughly 90 hours of audio in total. Releases follow a weekly cadence.
Episodes typically run an hour to ninety minutes — most land between 54 min and 1h 13m — and the run-time is fairly consistent across the catalogue. None of the episodes are flagged explicit by the publisher. It is catalogued as a EN-language Sports show.
The show is actively publishing — the most recent episode landed 3 days ago, with 27 episodes already out so far this year. The busiest year was 2025, with 42 episodes published. Published by footballacrosstexas.
From the publisher
Go beyond the Friday night lights and get an insider’s look at the world of Texas high school football and the coaches and towns that make it so unique. Hosted by retired head coach and athletic director Brandon Brown. Follow Beyond the LightsInstagram:@FootballAcrossTexas FacebookBeyond the lights: Football Across Texasand X:@fbacrosstexas Website https://www.footballacrosstexas.com/ SpiralXO centralizes your entire program-playbook, learning, game prep, communication, and team management- in one system built specifically for high school football. Affiliate Link: https://www.spiralxo.com/?utm_source=football-across-tx
Latest Episodes
View all 85 episodesEpisode 83: Head football coach and athletic director for Wharton ISD, Jason Haddock, continues our series on getting your first head job.
Episode 82: Rashard Colquitt, head football coach and athletic coordinator for Sam Houston High School in San Antonio, takes us deeper into our series on "becoming a head coach"
Episode 81: Head football coach and athletic director for the Paradise Panthers, Tommy Koch, talks about what you can do to prepare for your first head job.
Episode 80: Brian Cope, head football coach and athletic coordinator for the West Fork Gators, takes us through episode 2 in our "Becoming a head coach" series.
Episode 79: Keri Timmerman, head football coach and athletic director for the Marble Falls Mustangs takes us into our first episode in the "becoming a head coach" series.
Episode 78: Coaching school comments
Episode 77: head football coach and athletic director for Holland ISD, Phillip Gibson, takes us through our next episode in our personnel series.
Episode 76: Head football coach and assistant athletic director for La Vega ISD, Don Hyde, talks us through our next episode on personnel.
Episode 75: Head football coach and athletic director for the Dawson Bulldogs, Logan Simmons talks about getting personnel in place and taking over the Bulldog program.
Episode 74: Head football coach and athletic coordinator for the Bastrop Bears, Jake Griedl, talks about how he deals with personnel issues.
Deep in the Heart Athletics- special episode introducing Deep in the Heart Athletics and their upcoming zoom clinic.
Episode 73: Boerne Greyhounds head football coach and athletic coordinator, Brett Sawyer, talks favorite podcasts to weight lifting philosophy.
Episode 72: Brennan Whitaker, head football coach and athletic director for De Leon ISD finishes out our series on summer strength and conditioning programs.
Episode 71: Brandon Schmidt, head football coach and athletic coordinator A&M Consolidated, talks Tiger football in our 3rd episode of the summer strength and conditioning series.
Episode 70: head football coach and athletic director for the Wimberley Texans, Wesley Lambert, takes us through our second episode of the summer workout series.
Episode 69: Head football coach and athletic coordinator for the Abilene High Eagles kicks off our series on summer workouts.
Episode 68: Head football coach for the Wall Hawks, Craig Slaughter, closes out our series on in-season practice scheduling, and we talk other stuff.
Episode 67: Jeryl Brixey, head football coach for the Brownwood Lions, takes us through our 4th episode of our in-season practice schedule series.
Ep 67Episode 66: Head football coach for the Hillsboro Eagles, Leeland Hamilton, continues our series on in-season practice scheduling.
New head football coach for Hillsboro ISD, Leeland Hamilton, is making his debut in the head coaching ranks to lead the Eagles program. Moving to a mostly new district this year, he is excited about the opportunities this town and school district have to offer and more importantly, for what he can bring to this community. Coming from a large 6A program at Katy Morton Ranch, he will have to make some adjustments to the smaller numbers as he will work to 2-platoon his athletes as much as he can. Having connections at the NFL, college and high school levels, Coach Hamilton will have all the resources he needs to pull from to get his new program where he wants it to be.
Ep 66Episode 65: Larry Hill, head football coach and athletic coordinator for the Smithson Valley Rangers, talks in-season practice scheduling in episode 2 of this series.
Coach Larry Hill has been the head football coach in Smithson Valley for over 30 years. This kind of longevity is almost unheard of in todays coaching world. Growing up watching his father and his influence on young men and idolizing some of the greats, like Tom Landry, Bear Bryant and Darrell Royal, Coach Hill never second guessed his decision to enter the coaching profession. His commitment to excellence and his motto of "do what we do better than they do what they do" has established a strong winning tradition for the Rangers and himself personally, having over 300 wins as a head coach.