Garret McGuire had an idea. But in his father’s opinion, that wouldn’t be enough.
Garret, a Baylor sophomore quarterback at the time, needed more before he walked into head coach Matt Rhule’s office with a play suggestion. He needed a plan. He needed notes. He needed video proof.
Even then, “he’s still going to crush your soul,” Joey McGuire, a former Baylor assistant and now head coach at Texas Tech, recalled telling his son. “But he’s going to respect you when you walk out of there.”