TEMPE, Ariz. -- Kliff Kingsbury was already hot on Kyler Murray's recruitment when he walked into the indoor football facility at Allen High School, a northern suburb of Dallas, one day during Murray's junior season.
He walked over to Murray and Ryan Hoogerwerf, Murray's senior backup, while they were warming up together. Hoogerwerf gave a slight wave. Kingsbury waved back. Then Kingsbury and Murray started talking like they had known each other forever.
It felt to Hoogerwerf like the two had been in "cahoots for a while."
"It was like they were old family friends," Hoogerwerf told ESPN.