Coaches talk about what it takes to compete on the athletic field in the eye of the storm. They preach messages of toughness.
Todd Butler has learned there is another level of competition: survival.
“I sure have,” Butler said in a phone interview Monday during a break in survival tactics. “This isn’t about toughness. We are just trying to survive in Calcasieu Parish.”
That’s in southwestern Louisiana on the Texas border where Hurricane Laura plowed ashore Thursday in devastating fashion.
“It’s a war zone here,” said Butler, now senior associate athletics director at McNesse State in Lake Charles.