my college years. RIP, coach Luthor Van Dam.

Here's a bit of interesting trivia, from Wikipedia. I'm glad he finally got a hit character after some unfortunate choices:

He turned down the offer to play Gilligan on Gilligan's Island, a role which went instead to Bob Denver.[8] He rejected as well an offer to replace Don Knotts as Sheriff Andy Taylor's deputy on The Andy Griffith Show.[8] Van Dyke finally accepted the lead role of attorney David Crabtree in the short-lived sitcom, My Mother the Car (1965), the misadventures of a man whose deceased mother Gladys (voiced by Ann Sothern) is reincarnated as a restored antique car.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerry_Van_Dyke