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How a single bullet, love of East Texas football brought Jeff Traylor, G.J. Kinne together two decades before UTSA, Texas State clash
G.J. Kinne, Jeff Traylor grew close nearly 20 years ago at Gilmer High School; the two face off in Week 2 when UTSA Roadrunners host Texas State Bobcats
A bullet and high school football deep in East Texas brought the current head coaches of UTSA and Texas State together nearly 20 years ago.
Jeff Traylor and G.J. Kinne first met head-to-head on an East Texas football field in 2005 when Kinne quarterbacked his Canton squad past Traylor’s Gilmer program, 61-58, in the first round of the Class 3A Division II area round playoff game. Kinne, 34, calls the 430-yard and seven-touchdown passing performance in that win over Gilmer in November of 2005 “one of the best days of my life”. And that’s not only because of the win over the state-ranked team.
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