Exclusive Q&A: Meet new Fort Worth Brewer football coach Marte Amrine
The Fort Worth Brewer football program has a new head coach in the 2025 season: Marte Amrine.
Amrine was previously the head coach at Maypearl High School, where he helped revitalize the program.
The Star-Telegram caught up with Amrine for an exclusive question-and-answer session.
Star-Telegram: What stood out to you about the Brewer job? What made that attractive opening for you?
It’s just a couple things, to be honest with you. I grew up in Aledo, so I’ve kind of known this community for a while. The blue-collar work mentality of the community was appealing to me. And also the kids that we had in the building, I’d seen a little bit of film and a little research on that, and knew we had an opportunity to have some talented kids.
The other thing was just the district leadership, with (Superintendent Frank) Molinar and Coach (Ben) Davis, and being able to work for somebody that believes athletics is super important to. I knew the support was there from the top down, and that made a big difference for me and my wife to say yes and come here and have a chance to run this program.
What are some of your main coaching philosophies, and how would you describe your style?
I’ll be honest with you, I think our number one philosophy is we want to build championship people and that that goes beyond the field. I know that’s coaching cliche, but being able to pour into kids and make them believe that they’re better than they are — they they’re a part of something special. And I just feel like that’s probably my number one gift is being able to pull things out of kids that they didn’t know they had in them.
I think the biggest thing on the football field is going to be our kids are going to play hard at all times and learn to fight with each other towards a goal, and I think that’s what I do best, and what our staff does best.
You played under coach Tim Buchanan at Aledo before it was a dynasty. What lessons did you learn?
I honestly think it’s just the playing hard and believing in each other. When he got to Aledo, I was fixing to be an eighth grader, and so, I got to finish my last year in middle school and then go through the four years of high school, and the biggest thing was just the belief in each other and believing in our coaches and our community. ... When (Tim Buchanan) got there, and things started to stabilize, and he brought a bunch of coaches that are the reason I’m a coach now, because of his staff — just the way they loved on us and cared about us and demanded our best.
That that’s what I took in in my life, leaving him and then getting to get into coaching, was I tried to take that same philosophy.
What would you say was a driving force behind Maypearl’s improvements after you took over?
I think it’s just 100% belief. It was the kids believing that they could. When I got there, they didn’t think that they were very good, and we just made them believe. And that’s what it was. It wasn’t that we had different kids. We had the same kids. We just made them believe in each other and their ability, and kind of build their self-confidence. And that’s what turned it over there.
You’ve spent a long time in this business. Did you always want to be a head coach?
I felt like I always wanted to be in charge of a program, and wanted to be the final say and everything. And I think that’s kind of what drives most coaches is being able to be in charge and see if their philosophy works and if their system works, and all those kind of things.
You’re in arguably the most competitive and best 5A district in Texas this season. There will be tough moments. How do you want your team to respond to that?
That’s a good question. I think the biggest thing is whether they can learn from adversity and move forward, rather than going backwards. And I think that’s the thing, that it really can turn a program from being mediocre to being a good program. It can turn a good program into a great program.
Can you handle that adversity and move forward, rather than letting it completely take the wind out of you? And so I think that’s what I want to see from our kids, and what we’ve been harping on since I’ve been here in January, was, ‘hey, we’ve got to move forward.’ It’s about us. It’s not about whoever we’re playing at that time, and that’s the biggest thing. I think that’s the thing that I want to see from our kids. Can we stay together, stay tight, move forward, learn from that, and get better?
So in this district, it’s going to be a tough task to make the playoffs. What do you want to see in order for this team to maximize its potential?
Limit mistakes and play as hard as we can. If we can do that, we’ll have a chance to have some success.
I love our district. I think being in a district with Aledo, Denton Ryan, Richland, Azle and all those teams — all it can do is make you better week to week. So if we just take steps every week to improve what we do, man, you’re ready for the playoffs. When you go through a district like that.
You’ve got a lot of offensive talent returning. What does that continuity mean to the team this year?
I think it breeds belief. We’ve got to find a quarterback that’s consistent and gets our guys the ball in space. And we’ve got some guys battling for that, but if we can get those guys the ball in space, and we can let them do what they’re good at, I think that helps us tremendously. I think the other part on offense is being able to be physical when we need to be, and that’s been a big push for us this off-season, on both sides of the ball. And also being able to line up and run the football when we have to, and I think that’ll help us tremendously.
Now, in the next month, what are the things that you want to fix?
I think the biggest thing over the next month is just that, day to day, practice to practice, drill to drill, hard work. Where there is no let down, there is no relaxation — where we just continue to push. And that is how we’re going to compete. If we can play hard at all times, we’ve got a chance, because we do have some talented kids.
We just have to play hard all the time. And if we do that, I think we’ll have a chance.
This story was originally published July 17, 2025 at 10:48 AM.
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