‘Game 11’: Whirlwinds’ Compton reflects on season

  • A PLAYOFF IN YEAR ONE First-year head coach J.R. Compton has an appreciation for the players and fans of Floydada who followed him on a path that led to the playoffs. | COURTESY PHOTOS
    A PLAYOFF IN YEAR ONE First-year head coach J.R. Compton has an appreciation for the players and fans of Floydada who followed him on a path that led to the playoffs. | COURTESY PHOTOS
  • ‘Game 11’: Whirwinds’ Compton reflects on season
    ‘Game 11’: Whirwinds’ Compton reflects on season
  • ‘Game 11’: Whirwinds’ Compton reflects on season
    ‘Game 11’: Whirwinds’ Compton reflects on season
On Monday, midday after his first playoff game as a head coach, Floydada Whirlwinds Coach J.R. Compton took some time to talk with the Hesperian-Beacon and looked back on year one. With some distance between the 56–0 bidistrict loss Friday night to Panhandle in Tulia, the coach reflected on what it was like to go to the playoffs in his first year as a head coach. “It was exciting for the kids…

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