Joe Koch fondly remembers a conversation he had with Brian Calhoun more than seven years ago. Calhoun, then a freshman at Oak Creek High School, was seriously considering walking away from football in part because he found it somewhat boring. Koch, the Knights’ varsity coach, was trying to persuade Calhoun to give the sport a chance.
Fast forward to Monday and another conversation between Koch and his former player. Calhoun, a star tailback for the University of Wisconsin football team this past season, called Koch to tell him he was skipping his senior season with the Badgers to enter the National Football League draft.
“It’s kind of neat to think, here’s a kid that we pretty much had to drag out of the classroom and talk him back into coming out for football,” Koch said.