JONESBORO -- The house trailers were there in 1974. They were still there in 1976 when Ron Carroll returned to Arkansas State as a full-time athletic trainer.
The football program moved to a temporary building ahead of the 1977 season, in a spot where a St. Bernard's Urgent Care facility now sits just beyond the south end zone of Centennial Bank Stadium.
That lasted eight months. The facility burned down and ASU was back in the trailers until 1980.
Those years, more than a decade prior to ASU's transition from NCAA Division I-AA to I-A, make it all the more remarkable when Carroll now turns to look out his office window.