“It’s always where I wanted to coach and where I wanted to be.” Just like his father, Spike, Sonny Dykes is now the head of a Big 12 program. ByPatForde on how his life and career led him to this moment
Sonny Dykes has a stack of bibles on a shelf behind his desk. Texas bibles, that is. Also known asThey are grassroots cultural touchstones, these thick annual magazines devoted to covering college and high school football in the state that loves college and high school football the most. DCTF has been published every year since 1960, and says it has a circulation of 100,000.
. And if his Horned Frogs maintain their blistering undefeated start to this season, he could be the cover boy next year. Just like his daddy was 32 years ago.Texas Tech At the moment, if anyone deserves to be crowned the King of Texas Football in 2022, it’s Daniel “Sonny” Dykes.Longhorns Midland and Odessa are 20 miles apart but a long way from anywhere else, in a place where those Friday night lights illuminated massive high school stadiums for towns that size. Adolescent Sonny Dykes spent four years playing sports with and against the players who would be the main characters in the book, while his dad coached against Permian’s Gary Gaines. While Buzz Bissinger’s book was a runaway bestseller, its unflinching narrative cut too close to the bone for many who lived in the area.
This was part of the eternal charm of Spike. He was the walking, drawling stereotype of a Texas football coach, dispensing small-town wisdom and colorful colloquialisms when discussing the thrill of victory and the agony of defeat.“When you have five turnovers, miss two field goals and get another one blocked—my gosh, that’s enough to choke a mule.”
“I’ve always been kind of a curious guy,” Sonny says. “People ask me all the time, ‘How in the world did you end up at Cal?’ I thought I understood the place. I wasn’t a good fit, and it’s a hard place. A very, very difficult place. I brought a strength coach from the South, my offensive coordinator was [fellow Mumme Air Raid zealot] Tony Franklin—there was some oil and water. I probably made some bad decisions, and I wasn’t a great fit.
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