The brokerage firm EF Hutton ran a popular series of TV ads in the 1970s and ’80s that all followed the same premise. A couple of people would be talking in a noisy location – a party, a restaurant, on a plane. Then, one would mention the firm’s name and everyone else on screen would fall silent, setting up the voice-over tagline, “When EF Hutton talks, people listen.”



These were the commercials Dom Green referenced when asked to describe Glover Quin’s locker-room presence back at Southwest Mississippi Community College, where Green once coached Quin. They’re also exactly what Lions defensive backs coach Alan Williams brought up, unprompted, in summing up Quin’s impact on his current team.



A coincidence like that doesn’t happen by accident. It’s a chore for anyone, athlete or otherwise, to establish an overwhelmingly positive reputation in college, let alone to maintain it into adulthood. This...