He would literally come every day --I had a day off and weekends and stuff -- and pick me up early in the morning in his truck and we'd go out and do what he does every day -- which he goes out to the desert and drinks beers and tells stories.

At a certain point, even if the one alpha male is dominant, at a certain point there's a younger lion that is stronger, and everyone knows it.

It's funny, but we were living on this small island off the coast of Charleston, South Carolina when I was 9.

The cool thing about Haskins is that he was basically colorblind. He never understood why white players couldn't play against black players and vice versa. It made no sense to him. He just wanted to find the best players he could recruit — no matter who they were or where they were from, as long as they had potential. It was as simple as that to him.

About 40 years ago, it's stunning to think that the NCAA had never started an all-black team before. No one had done that before.

His players hated playing for him, but they wound up being lifelong friends, almost across the board.