New Troy football coach Chip Lindsey was part of three staffs – Auburn, Kansas and Troy – bought two houses and moved his family twice, put his new team through spring practice and has dealt with several key players entering the NCAA transfer portal.
But he wouldn’t trade the opportunity to be a head college football coach for anything.
“I met him in Atlanta to interview with him and talk about the job,” Lindsey said of Miles. “But I told him that night, I want to be a head football coach, and if the Troy University job happens to come open – and at that time I didn’t think it was going to because things had kind of settled down – I said, ‘I want to have the opportunity to interview for that job.