Luke Hobbs Leaving Schulenburg for Giddings

Schulenburg head football coach Luke Hobbs is heading north 41 miles on Highway 77.

Monday Hobbs was hired as the new head football coach and athletic director at Giddings.

“It was an opportunity I couldn’t pass up – to be able to go from a 2A program to a 4A program and not have to move very far to do so,” Hobbs said.

But he also said he was very sad to leave Schulenburg where he got his first head coaching job two years ago. He inherited a Shorthorns team that had gone 0-10 the year before he arrived.

They went 5-6 and made the playoffs his first year in Schulenburg.

Then last season Hobbs and the Schulenburg football team went 8-4 and made it to the second round of the play- offs.

Hobbs told his players he had accepted the Giddings job during a meeting Monday afternoon. “There were a lot of tears, a lot of hugs,” Hobbs said. “The best part of Schulenburg was those kids. They bought in and worked hard. Those kids are winners and they are going to keep winning. They will keep doing great.”

Meanwhile, Hobbs now faces another rebuilding effort in Giddings.

The Buffaloes have fallen on hard times the last four years, with a pair of 3-8 seasons sandwiched around two 2-8 seasons.

They are also now in a really competitive District 11-4A that includes Bellville, Sealy, Madisonville, La Grange and Caldwell.

Former Giddings head coach Michael Adams resigned after three years there at the conclusion of the season in early November.

Hobbs is no stranger to Giddings. He coached there as an assistant in 2018 when Giddings went 11-2. He returned to coach at his alma mater in Roy, Utah, for three seasons as on offensive coordinator before coming back to Texas in 2022, when he spent one year as the Columbus Offensive Coordinator before being hired at Schulenburg.

“I have a lot of familiarity with the coaches there, the people on staff. Giddings is a top-notch school,” Hobbs said. “It’s a strange feeling going to a new job but also feeling like you are going back home.”

“It’s not a completely broken system. If we can improve every day, Giddings can get back to where we were ... I’m not going to make the kids fit me. I’m going to fit them.”

Hobbs played football at Utah Tech and then finished his degree in 2017 at Praire View A&M. He is married to his wife Savanna, who is from Waller. They have three children: Sadie, Shane and Presley.

Hobbs’ first day at Giddings will be Monday Feb. 3.