Memory lane with Marcum

Each week Storm coach/GM Tim Marcum relives part of his colorful past with the Times. Today, Marcum talks about his days growing up in West Texas ...

-Marcum sometimes refers to his parents as migrant workers: "I call my dad a migrant worker because he was a football coach. A high school football coach. He coached for 15 years and had no losing seasons for 15 years."

--As a child, Marcum moved a lot: "I was at six different schools. First and second grade, moved. Third and fourth, moved. Fifth grade, moved. That's how it went. But I think it was great. You had to fight a lot. Everywhere you went, you had to fight because they all knew who could whip everybody's butt. So when you went in there, you had to find out where you were at."

--The family didn't use moving vans back then: "We used a cow trailer. And we'd borrow somebody's truck. Then we'd go. I don't think we had as much stuff then. We had beds and dressers."

--Marcum's father made a memorable hire: "When he became Superintendent of Schools in Benjamin, Texas, get this, he gave Don Haskins his first job. You know who Don Haskins is? (Haskins later gained fame as head coach of the 1966 college basketball national champion Texas Western squad, which the movie Glory Road, released in 2006, chronicled)."