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AP: Another QB McCoy plays in Colt's shadow
Published 12/18/2009 in Sports
GRAHAM, Texas (AP) — That's a McCoy standing on the longhorn logo at midfield, tossing passes in preparation for his bid to win a championship.
This isn't Colt McCoy surrounded by burnt orange and 100,000 seats at Darrell K. Royal Memorial Stadium in Austin. It's his little brother, Case McCoy, on a simple white painting at tiny Newton Field, the 3,800-seat home of the Graham Steers.
The youngest McCoy gets a chance Saturday night to win one of the few things his famous sibling never did — a Texas high school championship. After that, measuring up will be much tougher, if not impossible.
Case McCoy will eventually be headed 250 miles to the southeast to join the Texas Longhorns, unfazed by the prospect of constant comparisons to his brother, the winningest quarterback in college history. The burden will only grow if Colt McCoy and No. 2 Texas beat top-ranked Alabama in the BCS championship game Jan. 7.
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Associated Press Graham High School quarterback Case McCoy wears gloves for the cold as he tosses a football on Wednesday during team practice in Graham, Texas. Case, Colt McCoy's little brother, is coached by their father and can win something this weekend his famous sibling never did: a Texas high school championship.
"I'm 18 years old now, and I've been living under his expectations this whole time," Case McCoy said. "Anywhere I go right now, with the publicity he has and the legend that he left on college football, anywhere I go I'm going to be living in his shoes."
There's a good chance Colt McCoy will be there when his brother leads Graham against Carthage in the Class 3A Division II championship game at SMU. It will be something of a replay for the McCoy boys and their father/coach, Brad McCoy. They just hope the ending will be different.
Six years ago in the tiny West Texas outpost of Tuscola, Brad was the coach, Colt was the junior quarterback and Case was the ball boy.
It was one thing for Dad to try to console Colt McCoy when his oldest son realized he had never been on the field at the end of a loss before that defeat in a Class 2A championship game. It was quite another to try to comfort the sixth-grader in full Jim Ned Indians uniform, sobbing on the sideline in the final seconds.
"He looked at me with those big crocodile tears and said, 'Dad, we're not going to win. Colt's not going to win,"' Brad McCoy said of 12-year-old Case.
Brad McCoy might need someone to console him Saturday night. It's the final game after 12 years of coaching his boys. His middle son, Chance, was a receiver Colt's senior year at Jim Ned and Case's freshman year in Graham.
Four seasons of high school games on Friday night and Texas games on Saturday culminated last week when Colt McCoy, twice a Heisman Trophy finalist, was on the awards circuit. Brad McCoy didn't want to miss all of it, but he had to prepare for the state semifinals. On consecutive days, he went to Orlando, Fla., the Dallas area and New York, returning to Graham each time.
Debra McCoy missed one of her husband's games for the first time last week because she had to be on Colt's whirlwind tour of the East Coast. They were in Baltimore when they got updates on Graham's 27-20 victory against Pittsburg.
"Bart Starr was giving an incredible speech, and they were listening to what his little brother was doing on the text message," Brad McCoy said with a laugh.
Brad McCoy's crazy schedule was cause for criticism a year ago when Graham finished 3-7 and missed the playoffs.
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