"I've always liked longer hair, and so I grew it out when I was at Missouri," Yost said. "I kind of used it as a signature so people would recognize me. When you stand at high school practices and you get 10 to 12 coaches all standing on the sideline, we're all standing there with a polo shirt on, we all stand there and we look — there are a lot of similarities between everybody.
"This way, when you call a kid or you're talking to him on the phone and you say, 'Hey, I was at your practice.