The Purdue Boilermakers were caught off guard a bit this offseason when special teams coordinator Tony Levine, the former Houston head coach, resigned his position.

Coaching turnover happens all the time, but this was a special case, as Levine left the Boilermakers to open a Chick-fil-A franchise in Houston.

On Monday, he explained his decision, saying he wants to stay close to Houston and spend more time with his family (via Bruce Feldman of SI.com):

“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.”

Don’t worry, though. Levine is still bringing his football mentality to running his new business:

“If I look at the kitchen director as the defensive coordinator and the front-of-the-restaurant director as the offensive coordinator, and I don’t have another director, than I see it like a football program that has an OC and a DC but they split up the special teams among the staff, and sometimes it doesn’t necessarily get the importance that it deserves. So I want a special teams coordinator from day one, and I want a drive-thru director from day one.”

The entire article about Levine is worth a read, and it can be found in full here.