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Prairie View A&M head coach Tremaine Jackson is publicly calling out the Texas High School Coaches Association (THSCA) after he says the defending SWAC champions were left out of the organization’s annual coaching school.
In a video posted to social media, Jackson expressed frustration that neither he nor members of his coaching staff were invited to speak at the event despite Prairie View A&M’s accomplishments during the 2025 season.
“I normally don’t do like videos and all that stuff, but I had to,” Jackson said. “I just couldn’t sit and sit on my hands and feel like our program had been disrespected.”
Jackson made it clear that his issue wasn’t with the event itself. He praised the THSCA Coaching School as a premier gathering and said Texas continues to set the standard for high school football. Instead, his frustration centered on the organization’s criteria for selecting college coaches to present football clinics.
According to Jackson, he was told invitations were based on the previous season’s on-field success. If that was the standard, he argued, Prairie View A&M’s coaches should have been among those invited after winning the 2025 SWAC championship and earning a berth in the Cricket Celebration Bowl.
“Why weren’t they selected? Why weren’t they invited?” Jackson asked.
The second-year Panthers coach said the omission reflects a broader lack of respect for what Prairie View A&M has built.
“You don’t respect our ball,” Jackson said. “I’m getting about tired of that…We play real ball…We coach real ball. We recruit real football players.”
His comments come as Prairie View A&M enters the 2026 season as the defending SWAC champion after one of the most successful years in program history.
Jackson was named the SWAC Coach of the Year after leading the Panthers to their first 10-win season in the first Celebration Bowl appearance in his first season with the program.
For Jackson, those accomplishments should have been enough to earn his staff a place at one of Texas’ biggest coaching events.
“We will not sit on our hands and be disrespected anymore,” Jackson said. “We should have been there. They should have been there. They earned it.”
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