LAWRENCE
In the fall of 1995, a young basketball coach named Brandon Schneider walked into Allen Fieldhouse to watch Roy Williams run his team through an early-season practice.
Schneider, in his early 20s, was just months removed from graduation at Wayland Baptist University in Plainview, Texas. A psychology major, he had eschewed a graduate degree or a corporate gig to chase a dream in coaching, the family profession. Heeding the advice of his father, a long-time women’s basketball coach in Texas, Schneider accepted an assistant coaching job at Division II Emporia State.
The salary: $14,000.