The Mahomes-Hurts matchup is the first showdown between a pair of Texas high school signal QBs. Texas is already guaranteed to be the high school home of four of the past six Super Bowl-winning quarterbacks.
"I really like Joe Burrow," Dodge said with a chuckle in reference to Cincinnati’s star quarterback, "but I’m not going to root for Joe Burrow over Patrick Mahomes, that Texas quarterback."and the latest milestone for a football-crazy state once known much more for Earl Campbell and Eric Dickerson than whoever was handing off to those future Pro Football Hall of Fame running backs.
"Jalen Hurts 40 years ago would have been the next great tailback in the Southwest Conference," said Dodge, who still runs a quarterback training program in retirement. "Somewhere along the way, his dad put the ball in his hands and he started throwing it." "I think in Texas it’s been a program of building football players up for a long time," said Mahomes, whose Super Bowl matchup against Hurts will be the first between two Black quarterbacks. "There’s still the great running backs, there’s still the great receivers, the great tight ends, whatever you want to say."
"College coaches want to win, number one," said Allen, the winningest active coach in Texas. "And number two, they know if they’ve got a Texas high school quarterback, that he’s probably played in front of big crowds. He’s probably played against great competition. He’s probably had great high school coaching and he’s probably ready to play as a freshman."
Dodge also believes it helped when pass-happy teams started winning state championships. In one five-year stretch at Southlake Carroll, where son Riley is now coach, the elder Dodge had a 79-1 record with four state titles in the state’s largest classification.
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