BRISTOL, Conn. – Flying with perhaps college football's coolest coach at 21,000 feet, high above the Catskill Mountains in southeastern New York, our group of six briefly bounced into an “Almost Famous” moment.
Headed for Bristol and a run through ESPN's “Car Wash,” the eight-seat Cessna Citation Sovereign jet caught the back end of a storm, jostling us about the cabin, to the point that eyes widened and Mike Gundy's spiky hair brushed the ceiling.
Unlike in the movie, however, our two pilots remained calm and quickly had us soaring across smoother air in an on-time descent into small Waterbury-Oxford Airport, well before we'd consider confessing any deep dark secrets.