When he visited Tucson for the first time, 26-year-old Kevin Sumlin was two years removed from a full-time job as an underwriter for the American United Life Insurance Company.
He had quit his well-paying job in Indianapolis because he wanted to be a football coach, a big-time football coach, something that reminded him of his days as a Purdue linebacker when the Boilermakers stunned No. 2 Ohio State and No. 7 Notre Dame in the first month of the 1984 season.
What Sumlin saw that late October weekend, 1990, was college football as good as it has ever been in Tucson.