[2] He attended Shawnee Heights High School in Tecumseh, before studying at Allen County Community College.
[3] While there, he played for the college's basketball team and served as sports editor of the school newspaper, The ACCC Journal.
[4][5] In 1993, he was recruited by Friends University basketball coach Ron Heller to join their team,[3] and began studying a degree in religion and philosophy.
[6] Following their graduation in 1995, the pair moved to New Mexico together and Mullins began teaching music to children on a Navajo reservation near Window Rock, Arizona.
[9] In 1998, McVicker performed on A Ragamuffin Band's Homeless Man tribute tour alongside other Mullins-associated acts like This Train and the Kid Brothers of St.