Todd Dodge slid back into the saddle at 6:30 Monday morning as the new head football coach at Lovejoy High School, in the Dallas suburb of Lucas, about thirty miles north of the city. Seldom has one man oozed so much joy about a first day on the job. “Gosh, am I fired up to be back in it,” he told me this week. “I guess I didn’t know how much I missed it.”Dodge is among the greatest Texas high school football coaches ever, with a 234–72 overall record, including a 79–1 run during one five-year stretch. His teams have played in nine state championship games and won seven of them, four at Southlake Carroll and three at Austin Westlake.Dodge had the best of intentions…
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