There are two “A’s” in Dowagiac, a small town that sits in the lower pinky of Michigan between Kalamazoo and the Indiana border.
That’s where Kevin Keatts’ coaching career started 21 years ago. There is no real easy way to get there from southwest Virginia, where Keatts had spent the first 24 years of his life.
In 1996 B.G. (before Google) such a road trip required an actual map and some faith. Keatts had an abundance of the latter when he left Ferrum College for his first coaching gig, as an assistant, at Southwestern Michigan Junior College.