The air conditioner repairman talked about people he wanted to harm. Two years ago at a rural East Texas high school, he crossed football coach Gary Joe Kinne off that list by shooting him in the gut.

That was when son G.J. Kinne, likely the only quarterback the Texas Longhorns will add today on national signing day, became a sympathetic small-town kid whose dad was almost killed because of football. Leading Canton to its best season eight months later made him a local icon.

But two years after the shooting, Kinne is leaving high school knowing some have a much different view of him.