Mount Vernon gets another test tonight against undefeated Hughes Springs
Also a new article about ole'Art came out http:// https://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Society/2019/0925/What-it-means-to-be-coach-in-Texas.-Art-Briles-return-to-football
some highlights,
Like most young boys, Holly Grigson’s two sons love sports. But with their father not in the picture, sports have taken on an extra significance for them. She highlights a baseball coach they’ve had for years.
“It’s like he’s taken them in. I mean, if they need it they can call him in the middle of the night if they need anything,” she says.
“That’s the way coaches are,” she adds, “and I think Coach Briles is like that, too. I can sense that in him.”
In Steve-O’s Pizza and Pub, where Ms. Grigson works as a waitress, It’s the view that seems to prevail in Mount Vernon.
One of her sons, a quarterback for the eighth grade football team, “loves Coach Briles,” she says. Every time he has stopped in at Steve-O’s he’s been “super, super nice.”
Sitting at the bar, Jason Ross adds that having a coach as talented and well connected as Mr. Briles can only benefit the players long term, particularly with college recruiters.
“He’s a [Division I] coach, he knows all the other D1 coaches. ... If any of those kids has decent talent and size, he’ll deliver for them,” he says.