WALL — Ask any Big Country high school football fan what he or she remembers about Craig Slaughter and the teams he coached and you’re likely to hear one of two words: intense and/or physical. 

Slaughter wasn’t the winningest head coach in area history — not by a long shot. But two things one could always count on when facing a Slaughter team were high levels of emotion, backed by some serious hitting.

With head coaching stops at Hearne, Clyde, Sweetwater and Llano, Slaughter is now working as the defensive coordinator at Wall under head coach Houston Guy, where he has turned an already solid WHS defense into one of the best in the area.  

“We played great defense before, but he’s elevated that to a higher level,” said Guy, whose Hawks (11-2) face Canadian (13-0) for the Region I-3A DII championship on Friday in Lubbock. “The intensity he brings to our staff on any given day whether it’s practice or on a Friday night is invaluable.”