Question for the board

[Sirhornsalot]

I'm a member of a FB group called "Texas HS Memories" which features great HS teams of the past.

This week, someone posted a thread asking opinions on who was the best coach between Scott Surratt at Carthage and Jeff Traylor who is coaching on the college level.

I answered with Traylor, because he advanced and was sought out by college football. Then some yehoo chimes in that Texas tried to get Scott Surratt to join the Texas staff at some point. Having monitored Texas football closely for the past three decades, I couldn't recall a single time where I had heard that.

Besides, you don't turn down Texas to stay at Carthage. Ever. IMO.

Anyone hear that in the past several years?

 

[Baron]

I'm a member of a FB group called "Texas HS Memories" which features great HS teams of the past.

This week, someone posted a thread asking opinions on who was the best coach between Scott Surratt at Carthage and Jeff Traylor who is coaching on the college level.

I answered with Traylor, because he advanced and was sought out by college football. Then some yehoo chimes in that Texas tried to get Scott Surratt to join the Texas staff at some point. Having monitored Texas football closely for the past three decades, I couldn't recall a single time where I had heard that.

Besides, you don't turn down Texas to stay at Carthage. Ever. IMO.

Anyone hear that in the past several years?

If memory serves, Bobby and Gerry flirted with the idea of Surratt coaching at Texas, then had him on as a guest on Coffee & Football. That's the best I can come up with.

 

[shotime73]

If I'm not mistaken at the time when Strong was the head coach. He went to Gilmer to recruit the Boys Brothers. I had a funny feeling they weren't the only ones Strong had recruited at the time. Texas was getting manhandled on the East Texas recruiting pipeline for awhile so they needed a coach that had strong ties and relationships with the kids in East Texas. Honestly, Surratt would have been a good choice but I couldn't take anything away from Traylor due to the way he turned the Gilmer program around into a powerhouse