Most of the time, anyway. With five minutes left in the Joshua game, he gets up to leave the press box and beat the rush. Brownwood is up, 35-6, and sitting on Joshua's goal line. At one of the exits, he says to hold up a second. As if on cue, a Brownwood player is flagged for illegal motion.
Wood says, and turns for the parking lot.
Mistakes kill him, and always did. Mistakes kill him, but he says he didn't make one by staying at Brownwood all those years. Katharine had put it in perspective earlier. And Gordon Wood was a Texas high school football coach, the best ever, his peers say. Even an old perfectionist couldn't beat that.