We've got a heavy hitter in the building today and a man who Coach Kovo is proud to call his friend. He has upheld the standard that many former Team Player Podcast alums set waaay back in 2010. He is the Head Football Coach and Campus Athletic Coordinator at our beloved Ridge Point HS - welcome Rick LaFavers to the show!

• Growing up in perhaps the windiest city in the nation (take that Chicago!), on the vast flat expanses of the Llano Estacado where the joke is the only trees are telephone poles - beautiful Amarillo, TX!- Getting lucky enough to be the last class of 9th graders to be housed at the junior high before becoming a member of the Amarillo Golden Sandstorm - that's right you may know them better as the Amarillo Sandies, and they're one of our states most iconic programs with the record and the distinctive logo to back it up! Speaking of iconic, Rick even had the pleasure, or displeasure, of meeting Mojo's star RB Chris Comer in the hole on buck sweep - a name many of us will remember as the Odessa Permian star who replaced Boobie Miles in silver screen adaptation of the book Friday Night Lights.- Pursing his dream to play big-time Southwest Conference Football by heading East to Fort Worth and walking on to the TCU Horned Frogs football team before eventually becoming a rock on defense and Team Captain from his safety spot.- Beginning his career coaching collegiately with stops at places like Alabama, Texas A&M, and Rice University before leading a dramatic turnaround as Head Coach at Lamar Consolidated. Then the opportunity of a lifetime presented itself in the way of coming home to lead the proud Ridge Point Panthers football program.- Finally, in honor of TCU's magical run to the College Football National Championship Game this past year, Rick gives us his Horned Frogs Football Mt. Rushmore!

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