Humerous recounting of a Coach's career, wry with comment and observation. Filled with humor.
An account of the life of a coach during the
1960s-1980s. Coaching basketball takes
second place to football in Texas, and a
basketball coach's duties include coaching
football, as well as teaching. These
anecdotes from this coach's career are
poignant, in both humor and drama. Well
known individuals are mentioned. Every
coach will want this book for the pitfalls that
are examined. Coaches & teachers will laugh
a lot at these episodes.
The game had been a typical knock down drag out game between two district opponents Beeville and Robstown. They were playing for the district championship and Beeville was leading by one point. Time had expired and Robstown's best player was on the free throw line for two shots. He made the first shot in spite of the screaming Beeville fans. When he missed the second shot it looked like an overtime coming up. Instead. this little prissy, I like attention, I'll show you how important I am,official, called a technical foul ON THE CROWD! Coach Scott took three steps onto the court to challenge the call. The official with a glare in his eyes and hands on his hips was just dying to call another T. Not wanting another technical foul call Coach returned to his bench. The Robstown player made the free throw and Robstown won the game and district.
Many more unusual and unbelievable events are related in Coach Donald Foy Scott's book A Basketball Coach In A Football State. It is not your normal jock story book. Not only a basketball coach, Coach Scott was also a classroom teacher(Biology and Driver Education)and a football coach. He was also a concerned citizen in his community.
In many school's athletic department the football coach is the athletic director in charge of all athletics. Some athletic directors for fear that basketball will become more successful than the football program limit what the basketball coach can do. That is partly what this book is about. Coach Scott relates some of his personal experiences in this area.
Some stories will make the reader laugh. Others could make them cry. Sometimes desperation ends in inspiration. Those stories might lead the reader to believe in the Ultimate Coach. The events are true. You could not make them up. Coach Scott recalls the good, bad and ugly as he tells his personnel reaction to his thirty-three years of teaching and coaching in Texas.
It is always about the students. Coach admits the students taught him as much as he taught them. The reverse teaching role was one he always took advantage of. He learned a lot from the Mexican American kids in South Texas, the big city kids in San Antonio and especially the Air Force students at Randolph High School. Although Coach retired in 1990 his story in many ways had only begun and continued through his retirement years. He and his wife are currently living on a Hill Country ranch in Central Texas.
