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Among Football Fans, Art Briles Is Reviled. Except in One Texas Town.
Just before kickoff of the inaugural game at Stephenville High School’s Art Briles Stadium, a student from the Fellowship of Christian Athletes led the crowd in prayer. She thanked God for various blessings, including the brand-new $40 million facility the school had built and named after the coach who, among other things for which he’s famous, led the Stephenville Yellowjackets football team to four state championships in the nineties. In Stephenville, seventy miles southwest of Fort Worth, Art Briles is still beloved as the man who turned around a program that had endured a four-decade playoff drought, and who maintained close ties to the community even as he went on to pursue higher-profile coaching opportunities: first at Texas Tech and the University of Houston, and…The post Among Football Fans, Art Briles Is Reviled. Except in One Texas Town. appeared first on Texas Monthly.