Blake Anderson scripted Arkansas State University's practices from Mexico.
Meeting agendas were written from his computer and conducted via FaceTime and Skype for 3 1/2 weeks in the spring of 2017.
"I was gone for a month," ASU's five-year coach said. "Different people fed my kids every day for a month. Different people in town, from church, they made sure my kids were fed every day. It was unbelievable."
That trip to Mexico was the second leg of a journey that has no end in sight and has recently restarted.
Applying aloe vera to aid a sunburn, Wendy Anderson, 48, felt an unusual lump a year and a half ago.