In January, Purdue announced that Tony Levine was resigning from his job as special teams coordinator "to pursue opportunities outside of coaching." Those opportunities, as Levine has since revealed, include running a Chick-fil-A franchise in the Houston suburb of Missouri City.
Levine, who served as the University of Houston's head coach from 2011-14, spoke to Sports Illustrated's Bruce Feldman about his new venture, noting that it isn't all that different from coaching football.
"The reasons when I was 23 years old that I wanted to get into coaching, the things that I've been passionate about for most of my life - developing people, team-building, identifying and recruiting talent, competing - while I had a love for those, I saw an opportunity with Chick-fil-A to become an owner/operator where a lot of those same things that I was passionate about I could keep doing, and the ability to stay in Houston was very important to my wife and I and our family as a whole," he said.
The Chick-fil-A is located just two miles from Levine's home - the same one he lived in during his time with the Cougars - and is set to open in six weeks.
Levine isn't the first coach to leave college football to open a fast-food joint. In 2014, former Iowa assistant coach Eric Johnson left the school to open a Culver's in Tennessee.