Every year, when the season would end and Andy Dalton would hop in his truck to drive from Cincinnati, where he has developed into a star quarterback for the Bengals, to his home in Texas, he’d make a brief stopover in Memphis.
Dalton’s career has flourished in the NFL, but his success, he said, is owed largely to the lessons learned from his quarterbacks coach at TCU, Justin Fuente, and so each offseason, they made a point to reconnect in Tennessee, where, until this month, Fuente was the head coach of the Memphis Tigers.