Thursday’s football game between Boerne High and McCollum turned into a family affair for the Wilkinsons.
On the visitor sideline, former Boerne High assistant coach David Wilkinson was leading McCollum against his former team and hoping to beat them.
On the home sideline, Wilkinson’s son, Bobby Jett Wilkinson, was doing his best to prevent his dad from getting a win over the Greyhounds.
All this while David’s wife, Emily, sat in the stands watching both her husband and son doing their best to beat the other.
According to Bobby Jett, this was the first time he and his father were on opposite sidelines. They had always been on the same sideline, especially the last few years when Wilkinson served as Boerne’s offensive coordinator, while Bobby Jett played defense for the Greyhounds.
Leading up to Thursday’s contest, both father and son said there wasn’t any trash talking during the week.
“I don’t think I saw him much past Monday night,” David said. “He had events at night, and I was asleep on the couch.”
Bobby Jett said he’s not a trash talker by nature anyway.
“I’m not a big mouthing-off guy, I just play,” he said.
Bobby Jett plays in the secondary for the Greyhounds, and David said probably the strangest thing was hoping his Cowboys wide receivers got the best of his son.
“I wanted my receiver to beat him because I wanted to score,” he said. “He’s a big boy and played this game a long time and he would have gotten over it. He did a good job and played a great game.”
Bobby Jett said he knew his dad was wanting the Cowboys' receivers to get the best of him.
“I was expecting that,” he said.
David said he was hoping he could have waited to take a head coaching job until after his son graduated but added that it just didn’t work out that way.
“It was one of those family decisions that you make because down the road it’s going to be better for your family. It was tough; it would have been ideal if it had been one year later, but it didn’t happen that way,” he said. “I had an opportunity, and these jobs are hard to get because there are a lot of great coaches and it’s very competitive. There were more than a hundred applicants for this job, and I felt like I had a chance to get it, so we kind of had to seize it.”
Bobby Jett could have gone to play for his dad if he wanted but decided to stay with the Greyhounds for his senior season.
“I just wanted to stay with my friends in Boerne, we have a great team this year and I just wanted to stay in the program,” he said.
David said it was a great night — well, other than the score. The Greyhounds won 42-0.
“It was all kind of surreal; we had this circled on the calendar for so long. It was good to see so many good friends and welcoming faces,” he said. “Other than the results, it was an enjoyable night.”
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