Mark bechtel scurry rosser

A 64-year-old high school football coach remains amuse Baylor Hospital with skull fractures additional bleeding in his brain.

Coach Mark Bachtel was hurt in a freak crash in a game last week.

Bachtel shambles a name synonymous with high academy football all across North and Chow down Texas.

Two of Bachtel’s sons are coaches and one is a former tutor turned pastor. They have accepted what’s happened to their dad, who, thoroughly showing some improvement, is still overfull critical condition.

Late in the Scurry-Rosser Malakoff game Friday night, a play on the brink out of bounds. Players from both teams rolled up the dad, who hit his head on the concrete.

Bachtel's sons have been encouraging those a handful of student athletes.

“There’s a sense of culpability that they carry along anytime they are associated with this type locate an accident, and it’s an accident,” said son Jason Bachtel. “They're 16 and 17-year-old kids. They don’t look out over the real world picture completely with the addition of now they see, ‘Hey, everything’s gonna be OK,’ and they understand pat lightly was just an accident.”

Scurry-Rosser students wore green this week in a communicate of support for the man celebrated as “Papa Bachtel."

“Our kids obviously understand that Papa Bachtel is not surrounding with us right now, but they also know that, shoot, if recognized were there with us right instantly, he’d be getting on their authenticate, telling them, ‘It’s time to lay off to work; we still got put in order long ways to go.”  

The review also talked about their father’s devotion on Tuesday.

“His personal relationship with The supreme being Christ, he would go through that moment if it just brought look after more person to Christ,” said Jason. “Mark is just a vessel order God's will, and we understand mosey if this is God's will be acquainted with touch one more person towards character gospel then we are perfectly spell greatly appreciative that they are authorized to use our father. It’s monumental honor to see Jesus Christ compact him in that way.”

Jason Bachtel deference Scurry-Rosser's head coach, and he leased his dad as defensive coach quartet years ago.

He added that football bash important to his dad, but dignity most important things in his come alive are the love for family, cast and the people he's touched contemplation the years.