BOB SAVAGE-BEL AIR
TODD WARE-EASTWOOD
TONY SHAW-IRVIN
DON BROOKS-CORONADO
ALAN SEPTKOWITZ-ANDRESS
PAT O'NIEL-HANKS
TOMMY MOSS-EL PASO HIGH

AND TO ALL THOSE GREAT COACHES FROM THE 70'S AND 80'S, GOOD JOB. IF I LEFT OUT ANY COACH'ES FROM THAT ERA, FEEL FREE TO MENTION HIM.

in my opinion you left out the best of the era. jack quarles--coronado thunderbirds. you can leave off that list brooks and moss.

No State Championships.

Coach Tom Work and Coach Daren Walker have produced better results in consecutive seasons with lesser talent then those coaches had in the past.

very true jmendoza, but the era he's posting about are the 70's and 80's. work and walker are alot younger. they were probably playing high school football in the mid and late 70's. now if you start with 1995 and up, then work, walker, veliz and grijalva dominate. had work continued to coach he would have easily passed sepkowitz and brooks as the winningest coach in ep history. it would have taken him half as many years to do it.

YOU ARE ABSOLUTLY CORRECT STEALTH, JACK QUARLES ONE OF THE BEST TO EVER COACH HIGH SCHOOL BALL IN EP.

looking through the history books sep,work were the closest to getting to state championship.

How do you figure

we are not talking about championships, just coach'es who have made a name for themselves in the 70's and 80's. but then again you young folks wouldn't know anything about them.

I think Walker was most likely in preschool during the early 70's. He is a young coach who has done a nice job. Hopefully he will continue to make a name for himself. We will have to wait and see if he can work his magic at Franklin like he did at CHS. How long has he actually been in EP?

I think walker used to coach at andress before chapin. & coached at some college in one of the dakotas before that.

I would be interested in seeing his resume. How does one become so skilled at such a young age? Does anyone know what college?

What about Parsons from Ysleta who ended up being an assistant to Savage at Bel Air with Lou James and Tom Work!!!!

idk, but I think he coached at the college he played at.

Does anyone have any idea where he played college ball? It would be interesting to know what kind of a player he was? He seems to have such knowledge of the game. The Dakotas? If anyone knows the college fill us in. It would be fun to check out the place. Does anyone know if the college still has a FB program? Have any of his former athletes ever played at his alma matter?

PARSONS FROM YSLETA? MAYBE. IF I REMEMBER CORRECTLY PARSONS HAD TO QUIT HIS BA POSITION IN THE MIDDLE OF THE '76' SEASON. HE HAD A HEART ATTACK. COACH BURTON, NOW ASSISTANT PRINCIPAL AT BA TOOK OVER HIS DUTIES. THATS THE YEAR THAT BEL AIR AND EASTWOOD PLAYED IN THE FIRST EVER MEETING IN THE SUN BOWL FOR THE DISTRICT CHAMPIONSHIP. THATS THE FIRST YEAR THE TROOP WAS IN 2-4A MOVING FROM 1-4A. BOWIE, JEFFERSON AND EL PASO HIGH MOVED FROM 2-4A TO 1-4A. EL PASO TECH LIONS DROPPED THIER FOOTBALL PROGRAM, AND ARE NOW THE EPISD VOCATIONAL SCHOOL.

i would have to include lou james from bel air, riverside and parkland, to that list of coaches. with lou james, i believe tom work from riverside and walker from parkland, would not have been able to do what they accomplished without james.

hs fb fan that's the problem maing a name for themselves out here. look outside the small el paso box and see who has gone the deepest walker,sep,work like i said.

If you want to go by who has acompished the most and reached the fursthest places...you can put Don Brooks near the top of that list, he is one of the most winningest coaches in Texas football history, and has made numerous trips to Texas Stadium and taken more than a few teams to the state quarterfinals.

That isn't true. Well unless he coached outside of El Paso it might be but he didn't do that in El paso...

I could be wrong, but I can't recall Coronado winning a bi-district game in the last twenty years.

please remind me, when did coach brooks lead coronado to texas stadium. i don't think they have gone too far in the playoffs under brooks. they did alot better under quarles. he has won alot of games, but that is because he has coached for 30 years. check out his winning precentage it's not that great. slightly better than average coach, at best.

No El Paso team has ever made it past Area.

Area is just the 2nd round, right after bi-district. So Yes, El Paso teams have made it past area many times.

I got mixed up. What I meant to say was that an area championship is the best any EP team has ever done and that the State Quarterfinals is the furthest anyone has ever gone in EP. EP has never made it to the semifinals...

Darn it! I just read the previous posts and realized that EPFOOTABLL was right. He said Quarterfinals and I was thinking Semifinals. I got mixed up sorry about that...

bob berryhill from burges late 70's

don brooks led the thunderbirds in the early 80's into texas stadium against lewisville farmers. they did lose that game, but it was the semi-finals in that region. back then only one team per district would advance into the playoffs. there was not an area playoff. there was bi-district, regional, semi-finals and finals from each region. there were 4 regions back then just like now. but now 4 teams make the playoffs. i say there should be only one. the only reason there is so many teams in the playoffs, is to make money for the state, thats all.

fbfanatic there are more schools to support financially so more money is needed.

ok didnt don brooks have the whole entire westside up until about 12 years ago. and none of those coaches on that list at the top did anything that matters.. someone gonna win in el paso.. its about what you do in the playoffs... tom work was at riverside forever before the finally got to the second round. daren walker did it with a new school, in their fourth year of varsity football.and then the following year. so those coaches are just a bunch of local guys that couldnt do anything when it mattered

What about Grijalva? We can't forget him....

ITs good to have more teams in the playoffs. Our players get that extra opportunity to be watched by a scout and maybe land a scholarship.

Jim Davenport was the best at getting the most out of his players. He was Head Coach at Parkland late 70's thru mid 80's. He beat teams he had no business beating with about 25 players on his squads. This was back when Parkland competed in the top division . . . not 4-A like now. All of his wins were against much bigger schools. Parklands enrollment back then was about 900 students and Davenport would whip Ysleta who had over 3,000 students.
The measure of a great coach is what he can do with a limited student population with players of limited ability. Davenport was a wizard at fundamentals and motivation. His players would run through a wall for him. He kept his standards high and coached and nurtured his players with great dignity.
By far the best football coach ever in El Paso. If he had been at Coronado or any other talent laden school he would have won a state championship.
Your the best Coach Dee!
Parkland Class of '83

WHAT HAPPEND TO COACH DAVENPORT?? DID HE EVER COACH ANYWHERE ELSE.

in 1976 eastwood tied coronado and lost on penetrations that was eastwood best team ever coronado went to the playoff and tied permian and lost on penetrations 76 was permians best team ever how does any el paso team top that

could somebody explain penetrations. I keep hearing about losing on penetrations...

It is basically losing by not gaining as many yards as the other team in overtime when neither team can score.

penetrations was if the number of times you crossed your opponents 30 yd line

back then there was no overtime. a game ended at regulation even if it was a tie. any time your team reached inside the 20 yard line of your opponent, that was considered a penetration. regardless if your team scored or not it count as a penetration. so if the score ended tie at 14, if your team reached inside the 20 yard line of your opponent 5 times but only scored twice, you could win the game, if your opponent reached your 20 less than 5 times.

davenport and alex saucedo wasted alot of talent at riverside. they could never win there. riverside was a large school. the riverside community then was like the eastside is today. davenport and saucedo could not and did not develop that talent. it took lou james to get the ball rolling and then tom work to steamroll.

Bob Berryhill? You must be joking. Possibly the worst coach ever.

U said it XRocket. Berryhill ruined many players chances to play college ball

Alot of the coaches your naming like Saucedo and Davenport ended up in Clint. Saucedo was the AD in Clint in the early to mid 90s right before Pat O'Neil became AD there. I believe he has since passed away. Davenport taught and coached in Clint but spent his last 6 or 7 years there teaching only. Another old school football coach from back in the day was Sonny Pitts if I remember correctly he coached at Ysleta for a while. He also went to Clint and ended up winning 3 state championships in cross country of all things.

Coach Dusty Meitler would be a great Head Coach....dude knows defense.


Chief

Wrong! The furthest any El Paso team has gone is state quarter finals and that was Coronado in the 70's and Jack Quarles was the coach!

All-Time Playoff Scores: 1975

REGIONALS: El Paso Coronado 42, Amarillo Caprock 14

QUARTERFINALS: Odessa Permian 14, El Paso Coronado 14
Longview 21, Dallas Carter 7
Port Neches-Groves 27, Houston Kashmere 19
San Antonio Lee 37, Mc Allen 15

SEMIFINALS: Odessa Permian 10, Longview 9
Port Neches-Groves 28, San Antonio Lee 0

FINALS: Port Neches-Groves 20, Odessa Permian 10

Quarles and Brooks each took a Coronado team to the state QUARTERFINALS -

All-Time Playoff Scores: 1976

REGIONALS: Lubbock Monterey 10, El Paso Coronado 8 (Quarles)


All-Time Playoff Scores: 1977

REGIONALS: Lubbock Monterey 36, El Paso Bel Air 25

All-Time Playoff Scores: 1978

REGIONALS: Plainview 32, El Paso Andress 14

All-Time Playoff Scores: 1979

QUARTERFINALS: Lewisville 15, El Paso Coronado 7 (Brooks)

All-Time Playoff Scores: 1980 5A

REGIONALS: Amarillo 10, El Paso Bel Air 0

All-Time Playoff Scores: 1981 5A
REGIONALS: Hereford 22, El Paso Bel Air 0

In 1982 the playoffs were changed adding an "area" champ to advance to regionals -

1982 - AREA: San Angelo Central 26, El Paso Bel Air 7
Odessa Permian 47, El Paso Irvin 0

All-Time Playoff Scores: 1990 5A
QUARTERFINALS: Arlington Lamar 49, El Paso Andress 7

Coronado went to regionals and lost in 1992, 1993, 1994,

Hanks lost at Regionals in 1995 - REGIONALS: Odessa Permian 38, El Paso Hanks 7

1996 - REGIONALS: Lubbock Coronado 17..El Paso Franklin 15

1997 - REGIONALS: Odessa 13..El Paso Franklin

1998 - REGIONALS: Odessa Permian 55..El Paso Montwood 7

1998 4A - REGIONALS: Plainview 35, El Paso Ysleta 23

1999 - 5A = ???
REGIONALS: Hereford 42, El Paso Ysleta 7


2000 - REGIONALS: Midland Lee 45..El Paso Franklin 14
4A = REGIONALS: Wolfforth Frenship 61, El Paso Ysleta 6

2001 - REGIONALS: Midland Lee 25..El Paso Franklin 0
REGIONALS: 4A = Amarillo Palo Duro 27, El Paso Ysleta 0

2002 - 4A = REGIONALS: Wolfforth Frenship 42, El Paso Irvin 21

2003 - 4A = REGIONALS: El Paso Riverside 20, Amarillo Palo Duro 7

2004 - REGIONALS: Wolfforth Frenship 20, El Paso Andress 6

2005 - REGIONALS: El Paso Franklin 41..Mansfield Summit 38
4A = REGIONALS: Plainview 28, El Paso Del Valle 0

2006 - 4A (?) = REGIONALS: Plainview 51...El Paso Andress 28

That's aall from El Paso that made it to Regional or better - keep in mind that 5A schools have an extra step in their playoffs - from BiDistrict to Area to Regional, etc, where 4A goes straight from BiDistrict to Regional.

CLASS 5A ALL-TIME PLAYOFF APPEARANCES

El Paso Americas (4) 2000, 01, 04, 06
El Paso Bel Air (22) 1963, 65, 66, 68, 70, 77, 78, 79, 80, 81, 82, 83, 84, 85, 86, 89, 90, 91, 92, 93, 97, 98
El Paso Coronado (24) 1968, 69, 70, 71, 73, 74, 75, 76, 79, 80, 82, 83, 90, 91, 92, 93, 94, 95, 98, 99, 2000, 01, 05, 06
El Paso Eastwood (15) 1972, 76, 82, 83, 86, 87, 88, 90, 91, 92, 93, 94, 95, 99, 2005
El Paso El Dorado (NONE)
El Paso Franklin (10) 1996, 97, 98, 99, 2000, 01, 02, 03, 04, 05
El Paso Hanks (9) 1987, 88, 89, 92, 94, 95, 96, 2001, 06
El Paso Montwood (9) 1996, 97, 98, 99, 2000, 02, 03, 04, 06
El Paso Socorro (7) 1990, 91, 95, 96, 97, 98, 2002

CLASS 4A ALL-TIME PLAYOFF APPEARANCES

El Paso (11) 1931, 34, 35, 36, 39, 40, 45, 55, 94, 95, 97
El Paso Andress (20) 1977, 78, 84, 85, 87, 88, 89, 90, 91, 94, 95, 96, 98, 99, 2000, 01, 03, 04, 05, 06
El Paso Austin (15) 1932, 37, 44, 47, 48, 49, 52, 54, 57, 62, 84, 85, 86, 91, 2004
El Paso Bowie (8) 1933, 38, 42, 53, 69, 71, 93, 96
El Paso Burges (6) 1967, 92, 96, 98, 2002, 06
El Paso Chapin (4) 2003, 04, 05, 06
El Paso Del Valle (7) 1999, 2000, 01, 02, 04, 05, 06
El Paso Irvin (15) 1981, 82, 83, 86, 87, 88, 90, 92, 93, 94, 95, 96, 97, 2002, 03
El Paso Jefferson (2) 1989, 97
El Paso Parkland (10) 1973, 94, 95, 99, 2000, 01, 03, 04, 05, 06
El Paso Riverside (14) 1985, 93, 94, 96, 97, 98, 99, 2000, 01, 02, 03, 04, 05, 06
El Paso Ysleta (20) 1941, 43, 46, 51, 56, 58, 59, 60, 61, 64, 72, 74, 75, 84, 97, 98, 99, 2000, 01, 02

Going back a little further

All-Time Playoff Scores:

1960 QUARTERFINALS: Wichita Falls 51, El Paso Ysleta 0


1964 QUARTERFINALS: Amarillo Tascosa 26, El Paso Ysleta 8

1968 REGIONALS: Odessa Permian 34, El Paso Coronado 15

1969 REGIONALS: Abilene Cooper 36, El Paso Coronado 0

1970 REGIONALS: Amarillo Palo Duro 56, El Paso Coronado 22

1971 REGIONALS: Hereford 29, El Paso Coronado 12

1972 REGIONALS: Lubbock Monterey 34, El Paso Eastwood 21

1973 QUARTERFINALS: Arlington Sam Houston 17, El Paso Coronado 6

1974 REGIONALS: Amarillo Palo Duro 7, El Paso Coronado 6

1975 QUARTERFINALS: Odessa Permian 14, El Paso Coronado 14

Ronnie Hernandez, greatest coach at Fabens

Don't know if you all remember, but back in 84-85 season the assistant coach for Jefferson was Richard Lowenberg. He wanted the head coach position but unfortunately did not get it. That was the bad news for Jefferson because Jefferson finished 3rd in the district that year, this was back when Jefferson was 1-5A. In the year that followed 85-86 season Richard Lowenberg took the head coach position at Austin High School and in turn gave Austin a District championship. Now you talk about coaches and that was a GREAT COACH. Reminds me of Austins Good Fortune.

His name is Carlos Lowenburg not Richard. He was a great coach

whoa---thanks for that information! great stats. a few things that i caught right off was:
1. i did not realize how many playoff appearances bel air had. they are right behind coronado.
2. it illustrates how much talent coach bob davenport and alex saucedo wasted at riverside. not one playoff appearance during their reign there. what a shame! too bad the ad did not get involved with that situation.
3. riverside has the longes running stretch of playoff appearances. that streak may be in slight jeopardy at this time.

by the way you missed 1995 for riverside. they did make the playoffs that year. that means they have been in the playoffs for 14 consecutive years.

Ah yes the great coaches of the past. Those were the good old days.

Did you know that coach Quarles also coached at Canutillo in the mid 80's. Did not do to good but he tried!

Quarles didn't do too good at Canutillo because they moved us from 3A to 5A. We only had 750 students in the whole district. When Bel Air played us in Canutillo, their band filled up all the stands. We had 13 players to their 50 or 60 something. Quarles was a great coach and I am sad that he passed away.

That year bel air had homecoming at canutillo

You all have forgotten Coach Cordero and Castaneda at Canutillo. Coach Cordero left after the '79-'80 season and left a well coached team, Castaneda took over and we won Distict, beat Riverside 14-7 and beat Denver City 30-8 for the Bi-District championship. Lost to Stamford in regionals. This was the '80-'81 season.

Best coach El Paso has ever seen is Grijalva. The only coach in EP history to take a 5A team to the ELITE 8 at Texas Stadium and it did not take him 20 years to do it. He took a program that far in less than 10 years. And that team is the ever dominate, FRANKLIN COUGARS. FRANKLIN WILL DOMINATE AGAIN THIS YEAR. THE COUGARS WILL GO 10-0 IN 5A AND PROBABLY TO TEXAS STADIUM AGAIN.

tom work, grijalva, bob savage, jack quarles, chuck veliz--close your eyes and pick one. you can't lose!

The Godfather of Franklin football Coach Milton Henry and The amazing Coach Tony Shaw at Irvin. I believe the best 2 coaches this city has seen. Brooks and past coaches at Coronado had the whole west side for years and years and they squandered the talent they had. They went to the playoffs many years but it was because of pure depth and talent.ALAN SEPTKOWITZ-ANDRESS was another that had pure talent and could not control his players, but won a bunch of ball games

I believe Tony Shaw from Irvin by far is the best coach El Paso has had. There have been a lot of good one's, but I believe he stands above the rest. All of the things that he did for his players, as well as players from other schools is just unheard of now. When there were top players in the city and their coaches weren't doing anything to help them out, they would go and talk to Coach Shaw, and he would help them find somewhere to play. To me that is what a great coach is made of, stopping at nothing to see good players go off and play, not stay around here and waste their talents. Name one other coach who has done things like this.....I don't think you can.

Texas Born Texas Raised you are living in the past. Time to move on. Next thing you will be saying is that no band today or tomorrow will ever be the best as Boston or Journey. Let go of the past. Your era I'm sure was cool but you got to move on bro.

Ok Carlos so name a better coach then, and don't tell me that Veliz or Walker are better than Shaw. Tell me what coach has done more then Coach Shaw, and no I'm not living in the past, I just know who is the best and who is not.

Brooks and Sepkowitz have proven to be better than Shaw. Walker will be regarded better as well, all in good time. Tony Shaw did have some pretty good years.

shaw was a very good coach. he had alot of talent out there in northeast to work with. he definetly got the most out of his players. as for sepkowitz, he will always be considered an underacheiver. brooks, the jury is still out. he has been outdone by montwood and franklin most years.

What? Sepkowitz an underachiever? Brooks has had a hard time with Franklin, but is pretty even with Montwood.

considering all the talent and all the d-1 playas they have had at andress, you have to admit, it is diaappointing that the eagles have not advanced further into the playoffs. do you think that if you had veliz, work, or grijalva with all that talent--would they go deeper into the playoffs? i think so.

Not to take away all that Coach Sepkowitz but I agree with stealth that Veliz, Walker or Grijalva could have made it past the 3rd round of the playoffs several times.

If you look at all the consecutive years Bel-Air made it to the playoffs the drop off was when coach Berryhill was there the last two years he was there was 97,98 and Jessie Pearles was the teams motivator.
Once Jessie left to coach DV, BA hasn’t made it close. So that tells us what kind of coach Berryhill was…

Lou "the man" James

Coach Rogers El Paso high Did well

give credit where credit is due! coach veliz was successful at riverside as a coordinator. he was successful at del valle as a head coach, and now he is kicking as at montwood! the proof is in the pudding~

Walker and team = great coach! He demands A, B honor roll and those who don't make it must go to tutoring, etc. The result has been much higher grades for players.

WOW COUG 44!!! Franklin to the Elite 8?!?!!!!! NO EL PASO TEAM HAS EVER MADE IT THAT FAR! WISHFUL THINKING AND IT WOULD BE NICE IF WE HAD. SORRY TO BURST YOUR BUBBLE. COACH WALKER WILL BE THE BEST COACH OF THE 2000'S. HIGHEST WINNING PERCENTAGE AS A COACH THUS FAR, AND ITS STILL EARLY IN HIS CAREER.

maybe you should go back and check to see whether or not what you said about walker is true. i think coach work has the highest winning percentage during the 2000's. I think you can count his losses during the decade on two hands. then again i could be wrong.

Husky43, Coog44 is absolutly correct when he posted that the 2005 Cougars are the only El Paso 5A team to make it to the Elite 8 and play at Texas Stadium. They played Euless Trinity. Trevor Vitittoe was the QB at Trinity that year. Trinity went on to win the State 5A title. Good Team. I did not go to the game but I heard that Alex Torres outplayed Trevor in that game. Wish we would have won. Coach G was a great coach. I hope the Cougars and all other EP teams do well in the Playoffs. Stay focused, work hard, play 60 minutes and make us proud. We are proud of you.

2005 playoff results

QUARTERFINALS:
Euless Trinity 63..El Paso Franklin 14


1975 playoff results

- QUARTERFINALS: Odessa Permian 14, El Paso Coronado 14
(they gave it to Odessa on penetrations)

1973 - QUARTERFINALS: Arlington Sam Houston 17, El Paso Coronado 6


1979 - QUARTERFINALS: Lewisville 15, El Paso Coronado 7

I believe it was in 1964 that Ysleta beat Odessa Permian . The Indians are the only team from El Paso to ever beat Permian.