Today's episode is with the head coach of the Purdue Fort Wayne Mastadons Jon Coffman. Coffman and his team are coming off their first-ever Horizon League championship in 2022. After leaving a job in the financial sector, Coffman started his 25-year coaching journey. At one point he thought that journey was over, but a fork-in-the-road moment led him to Fort Wayne, where he is now getting ready for his ninth-season as the head coach of the Mastadons. Follow Coach Coffman on Twitter at @coachcoffman.Each Friday, Jeff Bidwell talks with a current or former Division I college basketball coach about their professional path. There are no overnight success stories in college coaching. We'll talk about the sometimes decades-long journey from the moment they wanted to get into coaching up to that first news conference introducing them as a Division I head coach.Follow on Twitter and Instagram at @AKAJeffBidwell.