His family loved Lexington. He loved Transylvania. Then, in the blink of an eye, time became 26 years. It doesn't happen much like that anymore. Coaching is now a mercenary's life.
Loyalty extends no further than the length of a paycheck.
Why, these days you can coach a program and deride its archrival, then a few years later coach the archrival. Ron Whitson graduated from Transylvania in 1967, returned as an assistant coach in '74. Don Lane became Transy's head coach a year later. They have been together ever since. Side by side.