Dino Babers sat in a convention of over 4,000 football coaches. At the time he was an assistant at Baylor, a wide receivers coach looking for an opportunity to be a coordinator, to call plays.
Babers had gotten offers at other schools, but nothing good, nothing that would let him bring another assistant with him. Unless he found the right opportunity, the then-25-year assistant coach would continue to be just that.
He confided his concerns in Homer Smith, a former coach who had cancer at the time. Smith told him to step back from his misery and look in the room he was in.