Born a Red Raider: John Curry’s Journey Home

MIAMI, Fla. – John Curry was taking a social studies exam in the fall of his junior year at Lubbock Coronado when his phone started blowing up. He paused to take a quick look at who was calling and it was a combination of Joey McGuire and D.J. Mann. Mann was his head coach and McGuire was the recently hired new head coach of the Red Raiders. 

Curry sent both to voicemail multiple times and kept working on his social studies test. He says it was his hardest class as a junior, which is saying something for a guy who could’ve gone to an Ivy League school. Since Mann and McGuire couldn’t get Curry to pick up the phone, they turned their attention to his social studies teacher, who interrupted the exam and told Curry to pick up his phone and take those calls out in the hallway.