By Dan Wolken, USA Today

HOUSTON — Every morning, defensive coordinator David Gibbs drives to his office at the University of Houston, cutting right through the heart of one of the city's most dangerous neighborhoods.

Though he does not stop, Gibbs understands it is part of being on an urban campus, especially one that borders some of the poorest, most crime-ridden areas of an otherwise thriving city. And unlike others who have tried to hide what surrounds the university — particularly when it comes to the cutthroat world of recruiting — Gibbs makes sure to take it all in, from the "freaking Rottweilers in the street" to the trashed houses to the indigent people in plain sight.

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