New Clovis football coach: 'I'm not a band-aid'

Last summer, Stan Hodges was in his pickup truck hauling from one Texas oil site to the next. Just him, his truck and the allure of oil money. That was a foreign world for the 55-year-old Hodges: A lifelong college and high school football coach who sacrificed big paychecks for the internal reward of winning, developing young men and the camaraderie of the football world. His transition from the football field to the oil field started in May of 2023. But while he was making a "bunch of money" he...