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//By Eric Rizk// Coach Gary Gaines Garry Gaines was the head coach of the Permian High School Panthers Football team. It is Gains and the football team of 1988 that is the focus of the book Friday Night lights. In 1971 Gary Gaines graduated from Angelo State. He was a assisted coach in 1979 through 1981. Then he was the head Coach from 1986 through 1989. Now in 2009 he is the will coach for Permian again.



Cort Nations Permian HIgh School

History  Opened 1959  Named after Permian basin  Rallying cry is mojo  Became the rallying cry because during a game fans were cheering “go joe” other team misheard as mojo and that’s how the name was coined  Home field is Ratliff stadium  Rivals are Odessa high broncos and midland lee rebels  11 different coaches since opening day  most notable coach is Gary Gaines

 Football at Permian High School is not only the most iporttant part of the school year but the most important part of the calendar year to Odessa's towns people

 According to H.G Bissinger on page 4 of the book Friday Night Lights coach for the Permian panther Gary Gaines is quoted as saying  “In hundreds of other Texas towns celebrating the start of football practice that August day that were similar sounds of intimacy and welcome to the eastern edge of the state in Marshall, to the northern edge in Wichita falls, to the southern edge in McAllen, to the western edge in El Paso. They were Gaines’ words but the could have come from any high school coach renewing the ritual of sport, the ritual of high school football”