Myles Mouton's journey from Beaumont, Texas, and the Golden Triangle to Tulsa, Okla., and the Golden Hurricane was unexpected. Mouton himself would call it pure luck.
When Calvin Thibodeaux, then the defensive tackles coach under Bill Blankenship, went to Mouton's Ozen High School in east Texas, he was looking for a linebacker. What he found, however, was a sturdy defensive lineman who has since made 39 appearances and 10 starts in a Hurricane uniform.
It was Mouton's size that originally caught Thibodeaux's eye and the rest, as they say, is history.
"He (Thibodeaux) came in looking for a linebacker, but as soon as I walked into the locker room, he was talking to my coach and he saw me," Mouton said.