If the Arizona coaching job had come open in early December instead of early January, Kevin Sumlin might not be the Wildcats’ coach today.
Texas A&M fired Sumlin on Nov. 26, mainly because he didn’t win quite enough, and he took the news hard. Who wouldn’t?
Aside from a year and a half or so in private business, Sumlin had been involved in football since he started playing the sport in third grade. Now he was unemployed, tired and questioning himself.
Sumlin left the country to get away. “I went as far south as I could go without crossing the equator,” he said, declining to disclose his destination.