In our latest review of head coaching changes across the Texas high school football landscape, Odessa Permian has hired a former player for the first time in school history as its football coach.
Permian's fourth coach since 1999 is Darren Allman, who graduated from 5A Permian in 1987 - the year before the Panthers were chronicled in the best-selling book 'Friday Night Lights.'
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