If you listen closely to Coach Jason Todd on the practice field at South Oak Cliff High School, you’ll hear his past in his present. To the ear, he’s asking his assistant coaches quite a few questions. Todd said he did the same thing to his coaches as a student-athlete.
“Because I can’t think of just one moment where I was like this – I want to be a coach,” he said. “I just always asked a lot of questions, did a lot of research, and it was just something that kept my attention and kept me focused a lot.”
Teammates, he said, treated him like a coach. Perhaps the prophecy of a winning coach was taking shape. Todd is said to be the first Black head football coach in Texas’ UIL to have a three-title run in five years…