One thousand, six hundred miles. For the past four years, that's the distance that Ron Antoine, the former running backs coach at Fresno State, lived away from his wife and family.
In 15 years of marriage, Ron and his wife Zenarae, the Texas State women's basketball head coach, have endured more than just the last four years apart. Eleven seasons, to be exact, where the two have had coaching jobs not within a short enough distance to live under the same roof.
With three children, including one under the age of two, it was starting to hit home how being that far away from his family wasn't going to cut it.