Blackwell Hires State Championship-Winning Coach

BLACKWELL, TX — The Blackwell Hornets have landed a new football coach with a state title on his resume.

Clint Linman, who led McLean to the Class 1A Division I state championship in 2018, has reportedly agreed to become the new head football and athletic director at Blackwell.

Linman has other big-game experience as he also guided Whiteface to the 1A D-I state final in 2024.

Last year, he spent a season as an assistant coach in the 11-man ranks in Jal, New Mexico, but he has decided to return to Texas.

Linman was 27-2 in two years with McLean and 34-5 in three years with Whiteface. He was also 7-6 in a year at Miami and 8-3 in one season at Whitharral. 

His first head coaching job was at Anton as it was in the midst of a drop from 11-man to six-man.

Linman will inherit a Blackwell team that has had only one winning season in the last five years. The Hornets were 4-7 last year and lost in the first round of the playoffs.

Blackwell’s program had a strong run from 2017 to 2019 when the Hornets had three straight perfect regular seasons, highlighted by a run to the state semifinals in 2019 when they beat No. 1-ranked Jayton in the state quarterfinals.

Linman replaces Wiley Cummings, who oversaw the Hornets the past two years.

Blackwell, which is located about 50 miles north of San Angelo, competes in the smallest classification in Texas in Class 1A Division II. The Hornets will play the next two school years in a district with Trent, Panther Creek, Olfen and Loraine.