1.   He had expectations heaped upon him after being named to a handful of national and West Coast blue-chip prep football lists.

2.   He was born and played his prep football in Hawaii, before starting two years as a guard at Utah.

3.   Yet they were all treated as if they were members of some backwoods Ohio prep football team that had just captured the state title.

4.   He coached at TCU, a school in a state where Friday night prep football is the only game in town.