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With Rap Music and a Chopper, Texas A&M’s Kevin Sumlin Is a Cool Customer

COLLEGE STATION, Texas — A visit to a Texas A&M football practice is musically akin to a trip to a swanky hip-hop club in downtown Houston or a hot spot on Miami’s South Beach.

The Aggies opened fall practice with the rapper Drake’s dis of his fellow rapper Meek Mill, “Back to Back,” as a prelude to several other tunes on the cutting edge of rap.

In the middle of the bobbing heads of more than 100 young men in their late teens and early 20s was Kevin Sumlin, who, at 51, just might be the coolest coach in college football.