Former Houston High School assistant football coach Vince McCrosky is returning to Arkansas.
McCrosky was hired Monday as an assistant at Blytheville (Ark.) High School, where he was formerly head coach. McCrosky spent the past three seasons at HHS before resigning in February.
“Extremely excited, Mac’s one of my favorites,” Blytheville athletic director David Hixson said. “It was a love relationship of him getting the job, just because he’s been here before and I’ve known him forever.”
McCrosky was an assistant at Blytheville from 1992-’97 and again in 2004 and 2005. He returned to the school as interim head coach in June 2012 and was named head coach in February 2013. He resigned the week before the 2013 season opener due to Parkinson’s disease.
McCrosky told the Blytheville Courier News that he was glad to return there after departing due to the illness.
“Yea, it really is,” McCrosky said. “ It was something I was really hurt about. I didn’t get to finish the job. You feel incomplete. I felt like I let a lot of people down.”
McCrosky came to Houston in the summer of 2014 as an assistant under Billy O’Neil. He remained an assistant when Eric Sloan was promoted to head coach in 2015.