Todd Dodge Retires as Texas High School Football Coach – NBC 5 Dallas-Fort Worth

Todd Dodge is retiring as a Texas high school football coach and ended his storytelling career by leading Austin Westlake to his third consecutive state championship with a win of 40-21 from Denton Guyer on Saturday night.

Dodge announced his retirement before his 23rd season as head coach in football crazy Texas, where he was a groundbreaking overpower in Port Arthur before becoming a beginner in Longhorns, Texas.

“I have three beautiful grandchildren. I want to be a paw-paw for those guys,” Dodge said after the game. – My mother is 83 years old and still knows who I am and I want to spend as much time with her as possible.

Seven coaching championships came to Dodge in bundles. Before ending his 58-year career with Westlake, Dodge led Southlake Carroll to four championships and a 79-1 record in five seasons from 2002-2006.

Only three head coaches in Texas have won more 11-man titles than Dodge, who leaves with Westlake in the same way as his Carroll-season 45-1 record covers three consecutive titles. His team record in his seven championship seasons was 124-2.

Dodge won his sixth title and second at Westlake last season, beating his son Riley Dodge, Carroll’s coach and former quarterback at the Dallas area school.

All of Dodge’s championships came in the highest rank in the state, including the Class 6A Division II title this season. He finished at a record 233-72 in six schools.

After Carroll’s wildly successful run, Dodge rarely jumped into FBS as head coach but flopped for three seasons in North Texas. Dodge’s record with Mean Green was 6-37.

After a short stint as a university assistant, Dodge returned to Texas as a coach at Marble Falls before moving to Westlake, where his career began in the 1980s as a student assistant. His first three head coach jobs were at Cameron Yoe, Carrollton Newman Smith and Keller Fossil Ridge.