Joel Erdmann was at a soccer regional at Florida State when his phone light up with a call from an unknown California number.
The caller wanted to know whether South Alabama needed a home-and-home series after UAB folded its program in Dec. 2015. After Erdmann made clear that he very much did, the caller from San Diego State pitched South Alabama on heading west in 2015 with a promised return trip to Mobile in 2016.
"That deal was done in about three minutes," Erdmann says.
It doesn't get much better than that though it rarely works out that smoothly.