Kris Hogan

Introduction

Kris Hogan is a Texas high-school football fixture — athletic director and head coach at Grapevine Faith for seventeen years, subject of the bestselling book “Remember Why You Play” about his 2008 season — who joined Cypress Christian School in 2020 and rose to its culture director role. On October 28, 2026, Cypress Christian fired him, ending a months-long paid administrative leave that began when the school board turned an unspecified set of “concerns” over to an independent third-party reviewer. The school has never said what the review concluded, only that it recommended his termination .

Background Information

Hogan built his reputation at Grapevine Faith Christian School, where his seventeen-year run as coach and athletic director overlapped with more than a decade of service alongside future CCS president Jeff Potts; his 2008 season there became the book “Remember Why You Play.” He left for Cypress Christian School in 2020 and eventually served as its culture director. His firing is one piece of a sweeping leadership purge at the private school that followed the April 2026 arrest of a Cypress Christian coach, Jared Barber, charged with sexually grooming a male student — Barber was fired in April over alleged sexual messages, and the board responded by hiring “two nationally respected organizations” to review the school’s policies, procedures and student-safety practices .

The Controversy or Incident That Led to Their Cancellation

Terminated without disclosed findings. Hogan has not been accused of a crime, and the school has not released the review’s conclusions; what is documented is the process — leave, review, board recommendation, termination.

The board of directors told Cypress Christian families in an August 4 email that Hogan had been placed on paid administrative leave while the school engaged outside reviewers, after unspecified “concerns” were raised over the summer. He remained on leave for nearly three months. On October 28, Hogan was fired alongside the school’s chief financial officer and chief operating officer, David Swan; on October 29 the board notified families that it had received the completed review of Hogan and, after considering the results alongside concerns shared directly by current and former school families, had voted to recommend his termination. Interim head of school Patrick Reents made the final decision to terminate Hogan’s employment .

The board declined to say what the review found: “To protect the privacy of the students, families and staff who participated, we will not release the full report or share the details of this personnel review,” the board stated, and it asked families to avoid “speculation” about the dismissal. Reents separately announced he had fired Swan effective November 30 — “This was my decision as Interim Head of School, made under the authority the Board has given that office” — while president Jeff Potts remains on administrative leave under a separate, ongoing investigation into his leadership that began in September .

Public Reaction and Consequences

The firings rippled through a school community still absorbing the April arrest of a coach for grooming a student, with families told simultaneously that two senior administrators were gone, a third — the president — was under investigation, and no one would be told why. Texas Scorecard’s report connected the shakeup to the Barber case and to the twin external reviews, and the board’s no-details stance left the school’s own families to draw conclusions from the only facts available: three of the school’s top leaders exited within three months, two of them fired, in the aftermath of a student-grooming scandal no one at the school publicly foresaw .

Current Status

Hogan’s employment at Cypress Christian School ended October 28, 2026, by the board-recommended decision of interim head of school Patrick Reents. The review that triggered it is complete but unpublished, its “concerns” have never been described publicly, and Hogan has not been charged with any crime in connection with the school. Swan’s firing takes effect November 30, Potts’s leave and investigation continue, and the school continues operating under Reents with new leadership across its administration .

Impact on Their Career/Life

For a man whose coaching career was literally book material — remembered statewide for a season of faith and character celebrated in “Remember Why You Play” — the firing is an inversion of everything the book commemorated: Hogan now exits Christian-school administration through a personnel file no one will open for the public. At a school recovering from a coach’s arrest for grooming a student, the silence around his termination protects the families who participated in the review while leaving his reputation suspended between the board’s lost confidence and the absence of any finding anyone can read .

Sources

• Texas Scorecard, “Cypress Christian School Fires Two Admins; President Still On Leave,” November 2026 — source