New from Dave Campbell’s: My ranking of the 10 Best Quarterbacks in Texas High School Football history.
This list is based on HS career alone.
1. Kyler Murray (Allen, 2012-14)
2. Garrett Gilbert (Lake Travis, 2006-08)
3. Graham Harrell (Ennis, 2001-03)
4. Matthew Stafford (Highland Park, 2003-05)
5. Travis Quintanilla (Refugio, 2010-13)
6. Reggie McNeal (Lufkin, 1999-01)
7. Chase Daniel (Southlake Carroll, 2002-04)
8. Tommy Kramer (San Antonio Lee, 1971-72)
9. Drew Brees (Austin Westlake, 1995-96)
10. “Slingin” Sammy Baugh (Sweetwater 1932)
Two men. Same game. Completely different eyes.
Pep sees football as a puzzle. Every movement pre-designed, every pass a calculation. He doesn’t want to win the ball back he wants to make sure you never have it in the first place. Control isn’t a tactic to him with him a philosophy art in his form.
Enrique sees football as a war. Structure matters, yes but so does chaos so does personality. He wants players who can think, adapt, suffer and still execute his teams don’t just play a system they embody a mentality.
what makes this photo so powerful is that these two men stood in the same midfield together yet looked at the game through completely different lenses even then. One obsessed with order. One obsessed with intensity.
Both became the best managers of their generation.
Brent Venables with a masterclass on how to coach young people:
They've never been 20.
They've never been 25.
They've never been 30.
They don't know what they don't know yet.
Your job isn't to rush their growth. It's to plant seeds.
1. Seeds of perspective.
2. Seeds of vision.
3. Seeds of reality.
The harvest isn't your timeline to control.
(🎥@JoshPateCFB)
If Pizza Hut can return, then we can resurrect Blockbuster.
And we should.
While Netflix made things more “convenient” we lost something irreplaceable:
The ritual of going to a place with your family or friends to choose a story together.
That experience was special.