Miles’ Wilhelm Named Texas Football Coach of the Week

MILES, TX — After leading the Miles Bulldogs to the playoffs, Jayson Wilhelm has been named the Dave Campbell’s Texas Football Coach of the Week for Class 2A.

Miles, which was coming off a 2-8 season last year, wasn’t picked to make the playoffs this season by Texas Football magazine.

The Bulldogs proved that prediction wrong, however, and earned the No. 4 seed from District 7-2A Division II thanks to a pair of one-point wins over Hamlin and Cross Plains.

Miles beat Cross Plains 27-26 last week in a do-or-die game to claim the district’s final playoff spot.

Miles (5-5) will open the playoffs against Santo (9-1) at 7 p.m. Thursday in Dublin.

Wilhelm has led Miles to the playoffs in four of the last five years, which included a run of three straight 8-win seasons from 2022 to 2024.

Wilhelm arrived in Miles in 2020 after a four-year stint at Menard, where he led the Yellow Jackets to a district title in one of their final seasons of 11-man football.

Wilhelm, who is a native of the Panhandle town of Hart, graduated from Angelo State University. 

Wilhelm joins a handful of other Concho Valley coaches who have been named a Texas Football Coach of the Week this season — Water Valley’s Trey Sisco and Mason’s Wade Griffin in Week 2, Ballinger’s Bryan Gayoso and Menard’s Clay Holland in Week 8, and San Saba’s Andreas Aguirre in Week 9.

Other Week 11 winners included Hart’s James Shelton in 1A, Atlanta’s Tyler Morton in 3A, Jarrell’s Alan Haire in 4A, Lancaster’s Stephen Jackson in 5A, Fort Bend Ridge Point’s Rick LaFevers in 6A, and Bulverde Bracken Christian’s Anthony Bryson for private schools.