They spent five years at NCAA Division II Valdosta State in Georgia before going to Kentucky. Bob Stoops, who had made a name for himself as Florida's defensive coordinator, knew who he wanted as his offensive coordinator when he became Oklahoma's head coach. Early on, you don't make enough money to live on. He hooked up Mumme after a season each as linebackers coach at the College of the Desert, and as head coach of Pori, Finland in the European Football League, where cigarette-smoking football players wore advertisements on their uniforms. Years later, those law books might not have come in that handy in the huddle, but they've paid-off for Tech's new head coach elsewhere on the field.
Law is kind-of a process of solving problems.
It's a certain type of study and thinking expeditiously, which has always helped.