Most people think they know Texas high school football.
Usually it’s a negative perception, a picture of huge stadiums filled with adoring fans and football players who seemingly own the town.
That image is mostly due to the book, movie and TV show ‘Friday Night Lights.’
Gray Levy wanted to find out for himself.
Levy has been involved in football, as a head coach or an assistant, in Northern Nevada since the late 1980s.
He grew disenchanted with the lack of support here though, and wanted to see why football is still so dominant in Texas.
Levy found a different culture than most would expect. He wrote a book based on his findings ‘Big and Bright.’
Early in the book Levy writes, “I’d become disillusioned with the changing priorities of public education and hoped to restore my faith.”
