By the time he'd won three state football titles in a row at a couple of different stops, a Texas high school record for excellence in wanderlust, Chuck Curtis was just 29 and already wondering what to do with the rest of his life.
He'd never been anything but a head coach at Holliday, Jacksboro and Garland, and even though he craved a college job, he wasn't waiting 10 years on someone else's staff.
Either he'd get what he wanted, and soon, or he'd get out.
When a desperate Hayden Fry hired him early in 1965, Curtis figured he'd put in a year or two at SMU.