Todd Howey
Todd Howey spent over 20 years as a Texas High School Athletic Director at some of the most athletically successful and diverse school districts in the Sate of Texas. A former Texas Tech All – SWC outfielder and Philadelphia Phillies minor leaguer, Todd began his teaching/coaching career in 1989 at Early High School doing the laundry and coaching football, basketball, and baseball. After one year, Todd became the Head Baseball Coach at Howard Payne University and remained there for 5 years, coaching the Yellow Jackets to three conference championships. In 1995, Todd was named the Head Baseball Coach at West Texas A&M University in Canyon, Texas and spent the next 5 seasons with the Buffaloes averaging 33 wins per season and 4 National rankings. In 2000, he left coaching to pursue a career as an Athletic Director, serving in that role for the next 22 years at Canyon ISD, Midland ISD, and San Antonio ISD. Using his experiences as an athlete, coach, parent and school administrator, Todd has published three books covering teamwork, unconditional, leadership, life perspective, and adding value to others.
A Howard Payne graduate, where he is a member of the Athletic Sports Hall of Fame, Todd has deep family ties to the Brownwood community. He received his Master’s Degree from Tarleton State University. You can visit Todd on his website, www.coachhowey.com, to inquire about his books, speaking and teaching opportunities. You can also follow he and his dog ‘Cash’ on Instagram at Coach_and Cash.
Under The Stetson
UNDER THE STETSON: New and Exciting
I was sitting on my back porch relaxing a few days ago as the sun went down. It was a beautiful cool evening, and the sky was a clear light blue. I noticed an airplane
UNDER THE STETSON: Baby Boomer
I hear all the time how much easier kids have it today, and without question, they do in many areas. When I attended college in the early 1980’s, I had to go to the library
UNDER THE STETSON: Church
I read an article recently stating that church attendance has been on a steady decline for the past twenty years. According to this article, an average of 48 percent of adults regularly attended weekly services
UNDER THE STETSON: Bologna and Bread
This past weekend we had a reunion of sorts for the 91,92,93 TIAA Conference three – peat baseball Champions at Howard Payne University. The teams were recognized prior to Howard Payne’s double header against LeTourneau
UNDER THE STETSON: Bluebonnets
I walked out my front door last week and noticed my pecan trees are starting to bloom. Some decent rains of late have given a boost to the spring growing season here in Central Texas.
UNDER THE STETSON: Hourglass
“How do you want it to end Howey?” That was a question a buddy of mine asked me as we sat around a fire pit a few years ago. The stillness of the night and
UNDER THE STETSON: Path
I was in Dallas this past week and I stopped for Chinese food. The meal was excellent; beef fried rice with mushrooms, two egg rolls, and a bowl of Won – Ton soup on the
UNDER THE STETSON: Think
I am a little embarrassed to say this, but I am addicted to junk stores. I love sifting through odds and ends looking for something I don’t need but must have. Seriously, can one ever
UNDER THE STETSON: Storms
I will never forget staring out the window of my dorm room on the fourth floor of Weymouth Hall at Texas Tech University in 1983. There was a massive wall of dust at least three
UNDER THE STETSON: Open Road
I am often asked when I began wearing a Stetson. I grew up watching John Wayne movies and dreaming of being a cowboy. All of my buddies in high school thought we were cowboys since many
UNDER THE STETSON: Reason
I had enough success as a high school baseball player to catch the eye of the Texas Tech University coaching staff. They were in Houston playing a weekend series and one of the assistant coaches
UNDER THE STETSON: Obituary
I took a creative writing class while in college. One of our assignments was to assume we had lived to the age of eighty and we were to write our own obituary. We could write
UNDER THE STETSON: Phone Control
I hopped out of my car the other day and realized I had left my phone back at my house. I was about twenty minutes out of town, and I considered driving back to get
UNDER THE STETSON: Politics
I write about a lot of things, but one thing I will never write about is politics. I treat politics like a chicken fried steak with gravy. I enjoy it, but too much of it
UNDER THE STETSON: Retired
If you are a college football fan, then I am sure you read where the University of Alabama Head Football Coach, Nick Saban, announced his retirement. If you are not a college football fan, that’s