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Spike Dykes, who retired as Texas Tech’s winningest football coach and matched the victories with his legacy as a colorful character full of funny stories, died early Monday of an apparent heart attack. He was 79.
Also posted in Obitshttp://lubbockonline.com/news/sports-red-raiders/sports/2017-04-10/former-tech-coach-spike-dykes-dies-79Loved it when he was beating Texas and those Aggies on Saturday when he was in Lubbock.Hated it when he was the head coach at Lee High beating my MHS Bulldogs on the last Friday in November every year.
Thank goodness you didn't go to Odessa Permian...lol.I'm pretty sure Permian, MHS, and Lee beat my school in football pretty much every year....BUT...we crushed you in Tennis...lol.@txradioguy
What Little SWC school did you attend? Big Spring?
I remember the year Big Spring dropped out of District 4-5A. I think they are down to the 3A level now.
Actually 4A now that the UIL has re-organized to make 6 man schools 1A and 11 man small schools 2A D2.
Oh yeah that's right. I forgot they did that.My greatest claim to fame where W. Texas HS football is concerned...being the play by play voice for the Stanton Buffalo's when they won the 1997 2A state championship in an upset over Rogers.
Abilene Cooper High School...home of the cougars. We sucked at football. Tennis on the otherhand...we won state numerous times.
They were not always that way.I recall when Abilene Cooper had Jack Mildren as QB of what many considered the greatest HS team of all time... that lost to an upstart called Austin Reagan that just began as a high school. The state championship game ended with Mildren on the goal line trying to get in.He perfected the wishbone at OU, only to die in 2008 with stomach cancer.
That Cooper team was considered an upstart too, at least by the Permian fans out there. They nosed them out of their accustomed position atop the Little SWC that year. Central they could accept once in a while, but COOPER? OMG! (and worse words)
Cooper still retains the state titles record over Odessahttp://www.maxpreps.com/news/sz5NywRMo0OkgQplhjpsTQ/top-13-teams-with-the-most-texas-high-school-football-state-titles-all-time.htm
Nope, that's Abilene High, not Cooper. Cooper did not become a high school until the late 50's or early 60's.
Thx for correction.Guess I was too young when I left my birthplace in Big Spring to remember.
That's where I was born too. In 1956
1951. Dad was a meteorologist working at the Weather Bureau at Big Spring Municpal airport.
I got my HS Diploma at Abilene High School in 72 through a Dyess, AFB program, already had my GED, took 2 weeks, though I spent most my time in Buffalo Gap and Inpact, invaluable training that helped me survive a 3 year stint in Nawlins years later.
I have to admit...until I became a program director in Midland at KCRS FM...the two best paying radio jobs I ever had were working for the Wrinkle family at KBST.
Do the Wrinkles still own KBST?