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Old-school is OK with Maxfield

By Jeff Miller
Special to ESPN.com

Thursday, July 30, 2009

BURLESON, Texas -- Mel Maxfield's loyalties die hard. Some don't die at all. The head man at Burleson (Texas) hated to give up his Kodak projector, clicker and all, for reviewing practices and scouting opponents. He made the transition to videotape and recently went digital, though he leaves the details to some of his younger assistants. Generation X, he calls them. But no one in his 23 years as a high school head coach in Texas has persuaded him to forsake the wing-T offense, which he broug ...

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