//Senior Bowl a chance to evaluate, but also develop

Senior Bowl a chance to evaluate, but also develop

Whitaker wears athletic footwear on the fields for one very practical reason. He once fell flat on his assistant while making a point.

“At any moment, I could bust out in a full sprint, and I’d hate to be running and not having anything underneath me,” he said with a laugh. “So I definitely wear them every day.”

He said the spill in question came when he was coaching at Division-III Texas Lutheran, and he vowed that day: “This is never happening to me again.”

Shortly after that, he fell into something even better.

While helping teach at a clinic in San Angelo, Tex., Whitaker met Rhule and defensive coordinator Phil Snow.

Weeks later, Whitaker applied to become a graduate assistant at Baylor, establishing the link that brought him to the Panthers staff.

The influence of Snow