No matter what sport you play, every athlete runs into a coach or two who changes the game for them. For me, those coaches came from all different levels of competition, dating back to little league, Pop Warner, through high school, and ultimately through my time at Mizzou from 2007 to 2011.
This has been an emotional, yet interesting week for me in that two of those coaches have left their posts.
The week began with the firing of Coach Barry Odom, whom I would consider one of those coaches. Secondly, my former high school coach Tom Kruse at Raymore-Peculiar High School, a guy who spent the past 20 years at the high school as the Head Football Coach and AD decided it was time to step down.