Schulenburg hires Ferguson for ad/head football coach

Clay Ferguson defeated 140 applicants for the position of the sports director and head coach of Schulenburg. Ferguson selected the Trustees Board of the Schulenburg ISD during a special meeting last Friday, March 7th.

Last year he trained at the Elgin High School, where he acted as a defensive coordinator of the Wildcats. This will be Ferguson's first head coach. He comes with a lot of experience. He visited the high school in Jim Ned and completed the Texas Tech college. He began his coaching career as an assistant at West Texas A & M University. The team won a conference championship there during his time. Then he accepted his first high school trainer job at Sulfur Springs in Ostexas. After a year, he presented Copperas Cove under her famous head coach Jack Welch.

“This is a place that taught me a lot and shaped me to the trainer who I am,” said Ferguson in an interview with the recording. “You learned what kind of work morality. You have learned what a program looks like. Obviously, Coach Welch and she were really successful and that is the program that I want to bring to Schulenburg. “

(What trained from 1994 to 2017 at Copperas Cove and put together a record of 192-84-1, including two state title appearances.)

“After being there for four years, I had the opportunity to go to the metropex,” said Ferguson. “I was up there for five years. That was a great experience. We were able to have a five-year playoff series for the first time in school history. We had the first district championship for 20 years. We had a really good run there, but the metropex got old for me. I'm not much for the big city. “

Ferguson acted against a slower pace in Caldwell in metropexual transport, where he worked as a deputy head coach and defensive coordinator under head coach Matt Langley.

“They weren't really successful and we tried to turn it around, but then Covid met,” said Ferguson. “But in our second year there I was able to bring my 4×8 relay team to the state track meeting.”

In addition to football, Ferguson also trained train and basketball throughout his career.

Langley left Caldwell after the 2020 season, and that left Ferguson without work.

“This is only the nature of the business where I was in,” said Ferguson. “A buddy of mine got the job at Elgin. It just fell right. We knew what we took over in Elgin, somewhere, somewhere a fight. We could turn this place around. Children bought in us. We were 7-4 this second year and made the playoffs. We won a playoff game for the first time since 2013. We were able to turn this place and bring it in the right direction.

“It was time for me to take this next step,” he added. “It was a long process. But obviously God had a plan. He said: 'Hey, I'll take you where you have to be.' And it is Schulenburg. “

As for X and O's, Ferguson said that he would adapt the game to the skills and strengths of the athletes. He had no opportunity to meet most of the returning players, except for some he had scored during the Shorthorn Alumni Baseball game that he visited after the school council meeting last Friday.

“On the defensive side we will lead a four-man or three-man front,” he said. “It is in our arsenal. We will do everything we have to do to be successful. In my first year at Elgin we had a four-man front. But then we had no four defensive linemes, I had three. “

At this point, Ferguson accepted a defense in the state of Iowa with three high collateral, which are also known as “three -high”.

“We won't necessarily live in one thing,” he said. “As good as people are offensive these days, if they live in one thing, they are cooked.”

Ferguson said he was proud of his defensive style to create sales. In Elgin, Ferguson “crowned” his defensive sales manufacturers with a cowboy hat. Ferguson said that his defense has been forced at least 20 sales per season in the past 12 years.

“We'll hang our hat on that,” he said.

“On the offensive side we want to run football, be balanced and create explosions when we have the opportunity,” added Ferguson. “We will not beat our heads against the wall. We will bring children to positions where they can be successful. “

Ferguson has to set some co -trainers.

“I released some sensors,” he said. “Obviously I have to arrive there and fill out all of the stuff to fill the employees and get the boys I want. A few boys go to Giddings with coaches. So I will definitely have at least a few people. But it is early in this process. “

Ferguson's first day with the athletes will take place on March 18 after the children came back from the spring holidays. Schulenburg ISD reported that his salary would be 85,000 US dollars annually.