Duncanville ISD named Frisco Memorial head football coach Derick Roberson as the district’s new athletic director on Monday afternoon.

Roberson has spent the past five years in Frisco ISD where he helped start the program at Frisco Memorial in 2018.

He takes over an athletic department in Duncanville ISD that’s seen its fair share of turmoil over the past year with now three different athletic directors and trouble with the UIL, most notably involving the boys and girls basketball program.

Roberson is reunited with Duncanville head football coach Reginald Samples, who he worked with as assistant coach at Dallas Skyline. Roberson served as the head football coach at Dallas Adams High School from 2008-2012. In early 2013, Roberson moved into an administrative role becoming an assistant athletic director in Dallas ISD, a role he held for two years until early 2015 when he became the head football coach at Dallas Skyline.

Roberson held that role at Skyline for three seasons until he moved north into Frisco ISD to build the Memorial program from the ground up. He will start his new role with Duncanville ISD on Monday and should bring a steady hand to the Duncanville athletic department as he’s well respected among his peers.

There’s no word early on from Frisco ISD on what the district will do with their head coaching opening at this late stage. The smart play by the district may be to name an interim head coach for the 2023 season from the current staff and then, if you decide to open the job up after the season, you’ll likely have an extensive applicant pool in November/December versus the pool you’d have for a job being posted the last week of June.