CHARLOTTE, N.C. -- Phil Snow was the defensive coordinator at UCLA in 2001 when a 26-year-old graduate assistant who'd just lost his job at the University of Buffalo called begging for a job.
Little did Snow know, 12 years later he would be working for that young defensive line coach.
Snow was 45 and already had 25 years of coaching experience. The man he hired had been in the business only three years and was more than a decade from earning his reputation as a rebuilder of programs.
Snow calls it a funny story.