Beyond the Lights: Football Across Texas

About Beyond the Lights: Football Across Texas

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 Lights Instagram: @FootballAcrossTexas Facebook Beyond the lights: Football Across Texas and X: @fbacrosstexas Website https://www.footballacrosstexas.com/ (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 (https://www.spiralxo.com/?utm_source=football-across-tx)

Publisher

footballacrosstexas

Category

society & culture · sports

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

3 Sept 2024

Latest episode

26 Oct 2026

Latest episodes

1 of 94 episodes have a transcript.

1. 

   26 Oct 2026

   Episode 92: Ben Eubanks, Superintendent Johnson City ISD, talks with me about common athletic problems and ways to avoid them.

   Ben Eubanks, superintendent for Johnson City ISD, has seen the issues that affect athletics from inside and out, as a former coach and now the big man on campus.   Many of the problems we find ourselves in as coaches can easily be avoided with the right plan in place and everyone on the same page.  Coach Eubanks and I talk about some of the more common dilemmas coaches face and some easy ways to avoid them.

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   19 Oct 2026

   Episode 91: Wade Miller, head football coach and athletic director, Uvalde ISD,

   Uvalde head football coach and athletic director, Wade Miller, has coached at almost every level of Texas high school football, but he has found that kids are the same regardless of the size of the school.  If you hold them to a high standard and have consequences, they will surprise you.  As the Coyotes work to meet the high standard set for them, they learn the more important lesson Coach Miller wants them to learn, and that is "hard work doesn't always mean success".  You will have failures in life but in the long run, hard work pays off.

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   12 Oct 2026

   Episode 90: Blane Ellis, head football coach and athletic coordinator for Champion HS in Boerne talks about the Chargers core pillars.

   Blane Ellis, head football coach and athletic coordinator for Champion High School in Boerne, is preparing his athletes for the path, not the path for his athletes.  This is an important distinction for him as he and his staff work to build champions in their program.  The roots of this preparation are his core pillars, leading with gratitude and anchored in toughness.  These are just two of the Chargers core pillars that lead this program as it continues to be one of the most competitive  overall programs in the state.

Inside a recent episode

Episode 21: David Jones, head football coach and AD for Kerrville ISD talks about what's really important when running a program.

Published 2 Feb 2025 · Transcript excerpt

[…] I feel like you're my son or your my daughter We want them to be coached a certain way. We want them to be challenged. We want them to be coached extremely hard We want them to be tough. We want them to grow up TF &D is real But at the same time we want them to be loved We want them to be cared about and I think when you live in a community that the average home price is 350 ,000 dollars each You have to move our salaries are pretty good They're not bad But when you talk about young families That's a lot of money and it's expensive to live here And I think if I were to tell probably the biggest or the toughest thing I face is trying to get quality coaches to move to curvil They want to to move here. […]

Who has been a guest on Beyond the Lights: Football Across Texas

Names identified in recent episode analyses. Showing up to five guests.

• Texas high school football coaches
• Wade Griffin
• Blake Fuschak

Reach and audience

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Apple Podcasts (US)

5.0 / 5

10 ratings

Spotify

5.0 / 5

21 ratings

Podcast Authority Score: 25 / 100

A composite of feed quality, social presence, YouTube performance and engagement. Read the methodology.

Quality

38

Social presence

0

YouTube

0

Engagement

32

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