MCFARLIN

After 40 years of coaching football, including the last two at Bishop Gorman, Randy McFarlin said it was time for him “to step away and take a break.”

McFarlin said on Tuesday he has resigned his position as head football coach of the Crusaders. He said he will stay at Gorman until “the first of the year.”

“After 40 years, I decided it was time to step back,” McFarlin said. “Gorman is a great job.

“The last two years have been great, won a few ballgames, just wish we would have won a playoff game. We should have (last week, a 34-32 loss to Grapevine Faith Christian).”

He added he will stay until the end of 2018 to help his seniors try to get college scholarships. McFarlin called it a great senior class.

He will conduct the offseason to help the transition to the new coach.

Rod Kaspar, Bishop Gorman athletic director, said he hated to see McFarlin leave.

He noted the good job McFarlin has done at Gorman and hopes to hire a

new football coach who also coaches track before 2019.

“Coach McFarlin did a great job and in his two years here he taught a lot of life lessons to the students,” Kaspar said. “We’ve had great seasons and we beat Garrison (42-41) and played Tenaha to within onepoint (28-27) this year and they are still alive in the playoffs.”

McFarlin, who was 11-10 in two years at Gorman, was head coach at Whitehouse for nine years and at Daingerfield for six. He has a career record of 132-68-0. He has a playoff record of 13-6 with six district championships and 15 playoff appearances. His 1998 Daingerfield team was the state runner-up.

McFarlin runs a spread offense and has coached such standout college quarterbacks as Patrick Mahomes II, Brady Attaway and Hunter Taylor as well as wide receiver Dylan Cantrell.

The last two years he has coached Jake Smith, who threw for more than 3,000 yards this season.

Kaspar said the job was posted today and he hoped to hire someone before the school returns from Christmas Break.