HELP WANTED: LM FOOTBALL JOB OPEN AFTER JACKSON’S DEPARTURE TO CONROE

LA MARQUE is in the market for a new head football
coach/athletic director after Mike Jackson stepped
down from the position on Wednesday to take the
head coaching job at Conroe Grand Oaks high school.
Jackson, who had been on the sidelines for the Cougars
since 2011, leaves La Marque with a 64-23 record and
five district championships while also being credited
for helping keep the athletic department together during
the final years before La Marque
merged with Texas City.
Grand Oaks high school will open
in the fall of 2018 and will field a
varsity football program in 2020.
Jackson will have the opportunity to
develop the program in the image
that has led him to win 183 games
and two state championships in his
25 years as a head coach.
Texas City ISD athletic director
Leland Surovik said the position will
be posted in the very near future
and that the district will seek to find
the ideal coach who can help lead
the Cougars next fall. La Marque’s
intensely rabid fan base will be
watching as it hopes the next coach
will be able to take the program back
to the state finals, a plateau it has not
reached since losing to Aledo in the
2010 Class 4A, Division II championship
game.