New Liberty Hill Head Coach David Seaborn understands the stratospheric expectations and comparisons that will come when his team plays on a field named for that program’s legendary former head coach. In fact, Seaborn, who has stalked the Panther Stadium sidelines of Jerry Vance Field as an assistant coach and strength and conditioning coordinator the past four seasons, embraces them.

“What attracted me most to coaching in Liberty Hill was the incredible sense of community, the quality of the kids, and the rich tradition of competitive athletics,” Seaborn states. “It’s a place where football matters, values are strong, and the opportunity to make a lasting impact is real."

Liberty Hill football is unique, even by pigskin-crazy Texas standards. Coaches indoctrinate grade schoolers attending their first football camps to the vaunted Slot-T offense Vance rode to back-to-back state championships in 2006 and 2007, (barely missing a three-peat in 2008). It’s the same offense that Vance’s successor, the late Jeff Walker rode to four straight playoff appearances including a state semifinal berth in 2018; the same offense Kent Walker used to take the Panthers to the state championship game in 2021 following his brother’s tragic death from cancer and two more state semifinal appearances in 2022 and 2023.