Todd Ford will be the new Plano football coach — and he brings state championship experience - The Dallas Morning News

Plano ISD announced Tuesday that Todd Ford will be the new football coach at Plano.

A team that has won seven state championships is turning to a coach with state championship experience as it looks for its first playoff win since 2009.

Ford was the offensive coordinator for one of the greatest dynasties in state history. That was at Southlake Carroll from 2004 to 2006, when the Dragons went 48-0 and won three consecutive state titles.

Ford stepped down as the coach at Lovejoy in January after four seasons at the Class 5A school. He compiled a record of 24-20, and Lovejoy was 7-4 in 2019 and lost in the first round of the playoffs.

It’s the second time this month that Plano has announced a new football head coach.

Denton Braswell’s Cody Moore was approved as Plano’s coach March 3, but the next day he changed his mind and decided to stay at Braswell. Braswell had the first winning season in program history in 2019, going 9-3 in its fourth season of varsity play.

“I want to thank Plano ISD for the opportunity,” Moore said in a statement from Plano ISD at the time. “However, after further consideration and prayer with my family, I have decided to stay in Denton and continue building what we started four years ago.”

Plano ISD announced in February that Jaydon McCullough was accepting a new position within the school district after serving as Plano’s head coach and athletic director for the last 12 years. McCullough had a record of 70-59, including 2-7 in the playoffs.

Plano won two state championships in three decades -- the 1960s, ’70s and ’80s -- but its last state title was in 1994. Plano was 5-5 last season, missing the playoffs by one game, and Plano ISD didn’t have a representative in the football postseason for the first time in 30 years.

Plano is the state’s fourth-largest school (enrollment of 4,999), and it caught a break in the UIL’s realignment in February, no longer having to share a district with five-time state champion Allen, the state’s largest school. The three Plano ISD schools were placed in District 6-6A for the next two years, along with Coppell, Flower Mound, Flower Mound Marcus, Hebron and Lewisville.

Ford served as the offensive coordinator and quarterbacks coach at North Texas from 2007 to 2009, during which time UNT set Sun Belt Conference single-season records for pass attempts, pass completions and passing yards. He was the first head coach at Round Rock Cedar Ridge and made the playoffs in three of the school’s first four varsity seasons before leaving for Lovejoy.

Ford is listed as a one-year letterman at Texas, earning that in 1995. He was a quarterback on that year’s roster, but he didn’t throw a pass in a game as James Brown led UT to a 10-2-1 record and the last Southwest Conference championship before Texas moved to the Big 12.

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