Growing up in a football family, Sonny Dykes rebelled for a while and sought a different...
Sonny Dykes spent years wanting anything but to follow his father, the legendary Spike Dykes, into coaching.SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. — Sonny Dykes tried rebelling against football as a kid growing up in Lubbock. He failed, and college football has benefited.
“I started thinking about life without it,” Dykes said of pursuing a career sans pigskin. “And that’s what convinced me to get in.” That last part is especially remarkable for the West Texan with a smooth, measured delivery and mostly minus the one-liners and zingers that helped make his dad famous. A little more than a year ago TCU of Fort Worth introduced Dykes as the program’s 31st coach, in swiping him from rival SMU across the suburbs in Dallas.
Dykes had been mostly successful at his prior stops — save for 19-30 at Cal — but had registered double-digit victories in a season only once in 12 years prior to landing in Fort Worth . That also was TCU’s lone loss, but the Horned Frogs still handily made the CFP as its No. 3 seed based on their strong showing in the dozen prior games — and propensity for the comeback.
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