The stories out of Permian Basin are the stuff of legend. It is a desolate place in a desolate part of the country. Why would anyone go there? For a long time, nobody did. But new BYU assistant coach Kahil Fennell went there and worked a miracle.
let a kid leave campus without f— signing.”
“If he can make it there, he can make it anywhere,” said Maxwell, a former assistant at UTPB and current coach at Detroit Mercy. “I’m not kidding with you, the equipment room at BYU is probably bigger than the locker room at UTPB. Give him BYU, and imagine what he’ll do.” But Fennell came in clear-eyed and ready to break into the college ranks. He had bounced around in the junior college and Division-III as a player, and coached high school in California for a bit. For years before that, he was a medical device salesman. He saw UTPB as his opportunity.
“And besides, you didn’t really want the kid to see the gym anyway,” Fennell added. “If they did, they wouldn’t come. Wires were sticking out the walls. Bleachers on just one side. So we did all of our work on the phone.” But somehow, Fennell managed to pull in recruits that had no business coming to Odessa. Fennell found guys like DeShaun Francis who became an All-American. Josh Morris was hiding out in a school in Missouri and became the best big man in the country. Sammy Allen was a Division I talent, but failed a class so Fennell got him. He became one of the better rebounders in the nation.
Outside of game day, Fennell would routinely run to the bookstore to take pictures of pages needed for homework. The school never paid for books. On his off day, Fennell made nameplates out of card stock for lockers to make it look like a program befitting of a Lone Star Championships.
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