I would like to introduce you to your fellow Coalition member, Coach Scoop Reed. I reached out to him because he is very active with all our events and has made himself available to help the Coalition and our members in anyway that he can. With that, I thought that he would be a perfect fit for an upcoming event that we are planning and felt that it would be good for all of you to meet him in advance.

Coach Reed is a native of Washington State, but he now calls the Lone Star State home. I asked him how a kid from the Northwest ended up deep in the heart of Texas? He told me of how he was an undersized football player with D1 aspirations so after high school he went to play ay West Los Angeles College in hopes that it would be a steppingstone to where he wanted to be. Ironically, he was familiar with the area because he would spend his summers there with his father who was the long-time head football and track coach at Crenshaw High School. 

After accepting that his football playing prospects were still limited, he decided to utilize another one of his talents and transferred to Oklahoma Christian University where he played on the basketball team. While at OCU he would spend his summers interning at a church in Texas. Scoop told me that he had always planned to return home to Washington and become a teacher and coach football, however, a curveball was thrown at that plan when he met Gracie, the preacher’s daughter. She now goes by Mrs. Reed; they have been married for 15 years and have and have two boys, Dre 12 and Tyson 8.

After graduating with a degree in Public Relations, Coach Reed went on to earn his master’s in education administration. Over the last 20+ years he has coached at several schools in Texas, most recently he spent last season at Southlake Carrol, a Texas powerhouse, serving as the running backs coach on Riley Dodge’s staff. Riley Dodge is part of a multigenerational lineage of big time Texas football coaching and as fate would have it, he and his staff lead Southlake Carrol Dragons to the state championship where they faced his dad, Todd Dodge, who is the head coach of the famed Westlake football team. Coach Reed and the Dragons would ultimately fall to the Elder Dodge’s team ending their season with a 12-2 record. 

After the season ended and with his eldest son getting ready to start middle school, Coach Reed had a big decision to make. Knowing that Southlake Carrol had a good chance to return to the title game, he could not pass up the opportunity to coach his son, so he took a position as the Athletic Director and Head Football Coach at Coppell Middle School. This will allow him to continue to coach and to be there with and for his son. 

I asked Coach about his coaching aspirations, and he told me that he wants to either coach or be a scout in the NFL. He told me how that dream started to become a goal when his best friend Curtis Fuller was on the Carolina Panthers coaching staff. He was invited to training camp and given full access. He told me how well he was treated by then head coach Ron Rivera and the rest of his staff. He was welcomed back year after year and developed personal relationships with Steve Wilks who would go on to become the Arizona Cardinals head coach and Sean McDermott who is now the head coach of the Buffalo Bills. 

Scoop emphasized how he continued to foster those relationships over the years to the point that Coach McDermott invited him to join them for training camp as the 2018 Bill Walsh Coaching Fellowship. He recalled how in his time in Buffalo he was not treated as an intern, but just like any other coach on the staff. He was there for Josh Allen’s rookie camp, and it was an amazing experience.

I asked him why he joined the Coalition and he said that he joined because he wanted to help in any way that he could, and he because he wanted to develop new relationships. He has seen firsthand the power of relationships, so the Coalition was an obvious choice for him. He told me that as the eldest sibling in his family he was always in a position of being a role model and helping his siblings along and that is just a part of who he is at the core. He said that it’s part of the Reed Influence which is kind of his family branding and a personal mission statement.

R = Reliable

E = Enthusiastic

E = Encouraging 

D = Deliver

That is a pretty good mantra to live by, especially for a football coach. We wish Coach Reed, his son, and the Coppell Middle School football team all the best in this upcoming season. We encourage you to reach out to Coach Reed and introduce yourself when you have a chance.

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