It looks like (some) guys who live in Llano or close by, but coach elsewhere, finally “see the light,” and say, “Hey, I’ve got an idea!”
Matt Green was Exhibit A with that situation, and Todd Doucet is Exhibit B—and also the new head coach of the varsity baseball team. That should be a familiar name.
Former Baylor head football coach Art Briles, fired by the university during the investigation of sexual assault accusations against some of his players, spoke to the Horseshoe Bay Sports Club, June 20. For whatever reasons — personal or on the advice of his attorneys — Briles did not address the scandal at Baylor.
Following the speech, he talked with two reporters and again — in a polite way — declined to go into any detail concerning the events which, first and foremost, were tragic f ...
CEDAR PARK—This is the time of the year in college football for forecasts and discussions: Will there be a five-hour game? Why is it just a Final Four, not 64? Who’s in—who’s out of Music City Bowl consideration? And, which coaches will be removed from the hot seat and their office?
Texas A&M’s Kevin Sumlin will avoid, understandably, to publicly worry about Door Number Four, but he may be under a “number-of-wins-or-else” demand.
Sumlin addressed the news media and the Capital Cit ...
BURNET—A great cause will live on, but a fundraiser that was one of the most popular in the Hill Country has hit its final tee shot.
The Emory Bellard-Spike Dykes Memorial Kids Care-a-Van Golf Classic and Tailgate Party were held June 16-17, and that ended 14 years of the wonderful weekend.
MASON — “Same Time, Last Year,” Alexus Cotton and Kayleigh Kirkland knew they were going to play basketball but probably didn’t envision a somewhat quick promotion to the Llano High varsity. Did awfully well: first team,
All-District for then-sophomore Kirkland, and second team member, then-freshman Cotton.
Here we are in mid-June, and the two are the leaders of the Lady Jackets.
When you talk to kids and coaches at Marble Falls and Llano high schools, you find they have admiration and respect for the coach who’s leaving them. We open with thoughts from Matt Green’s successor, Michael Birdwell:
“{Green’s} going to bring excitement and passion in Llano. {He’ll be} able to step into a position where he knows the offense, knows the offensive scheme.
SAN SABA—The Llano High boys’ basketball team, June 8, was under scrutiny by its previous and current head coaches in the summer league in the Armadillos’ gymnasium.
Aaron Nuckles, the head coach at Lampasas, watched what he left behind, while Chris Armstrong surveyed the hand he’s been dealt.
Armstrong, a mild-mannered man—at least in June he is—was at McCamey (50 miles south of Odessa) as head coach for three years.
If some of you thought that Craig Slaughter’s successor would be—compared to Slaughter—a Clark Kent type before he steps into a phone booth, you should see if Mr. Comey still has friends at the FBI who could get a tape of the phone interview I did with Matt Green. He sounded like someone who’d won an Oscar and didn’t have to give it back.
“I’m chomping at the bit to get started,” he told me, June 9, several hours after it became official that he had resigned as head football coa ...
Who would have thought a few weeks ago we’d be referring to Craig Slaughter and Stephen Campbell as “former” Llano High coaches?
The Slaughter story is somewhere in our neighborhood, and at this residence we knock on the door of the future of young (34) Mr. Campbell. The Jackets’ head baseball coach for four years is heading to Class-5A Frisco High (north of Dallas but not as far as Denton) to become an assistant.
“It’s an exciting challenge,” said Campbell.
