NORMAN — Paul Hurst was on a mission when he showed up at the Wylie house in the summer of 1993. Hurst was then the football coach in the small east Texas town of Mexia High. He didn't go to the house to convince his AWOL running back to return to football. The coach went to tell Bennie Wylie his path forward. “You are playing football,”...
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