While a freshman playing football at Friends University in Kansas, a guest speaker challenged Brennan Whitaker to write out a few goals on a notecard.

Whitaker scribbled down that he wanted to be a head football coach before he turned 30 years old.

That notecard spent time in his dorm room, at his parents’ house and in his wallet, but it now can be found framed on a shelf in Whitaker’s coaching office at De Leon High School.