Robert Crivellari has spent most of his working life leading a team. He was a successful head football coach and athletic director at Elkins High School, just outside Houston, for 7 years and spent 23 years in coaching altogether. Coach Criv, as they called him, left the football field behind in 2010. Now he’s a one-man team running the pits at the BBQ Place, in downtown El Campo. “I was just ready to try something different,” Crivellari told me at a picnic table outside his restaurant. He’s been in this location for two years after starting in a take-out-only spot in 2014. “My entire life was run by a bell schedule,” Crivellari continued, referring to his time as a coach. “I didn’t know what the rest…View Original Post
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