Iowa State football head coach Matt Campbell assembled a staff of coaches he has previously worked with. File Photo by Nirmalendu Majumdar/Ames Tribune
There really wasn’t much different with this visit from the others. Tours of weight rooms, practice fields and football stadiums mixed in with talks of academics and dorm rooms kind of blended together after a while.
It was during this never ending maze of these college football recruiting trips before the 2001 signing day, when Tom Manning was trying to figure out his future, that the man who would alter it more than anyone else introduced himself.