Randy Hinkel was a winner. The word loss wasn’t one that stayed in his vocabulary very long. But Sunday the town of Madrid lost their beloved coach who helped create the jungle and all that it means.
It’s a great night we’re going to have a big crowd. Playing a good football team. Man we get to showcase the talents Coach Perkins said it best. He’s like our whole coaching staff. We want you to unleash your best performance of the year. That’s four quarters of go get them be true to your reads being strong discipline good pad height and carrying out fakes if we can do this I guarantee you a Tiger victory.
October 9th was one of the few times this past season that didn’t happen. Randy Hinkel’s squad lost to South Central Calhoun that night, but losing wasn’t something Hinkel did very often.
“Or are we going to finish it off win the next two?”
Hinkel embraced the wishbone offense and he was meticulous with the study of it.
In 29 seasons as the head coach of the Madrid Tigers Hinkel accrued 264 wins and just 58 losses. He led his teams to 25 of the last 26 state playoffs, was state runner up 7 times, and crowned champion once in 1991.
“We have the whole crowd on there just juices us up.”
In his coaching career Hinkel is one of only 12 football coaches in the state to eclipse 300 wins.
but more important than wins Randy Hinkel developed boys into some great young men who will surely miss their football coach.
