Jase Herl pondered his future on the 450-mile drive down Interstate 70 eastbound — Grand Junction to Goodland, Kansas — on course for a figurative and literal life crossroads. In 2011, Herl left behind his life as an all-conference Division II basketball player at Mesa State for what he figured, maybe, he was born to do. Ask any of the roughly 5,000 residents in Goodland, about 20 miles out from the Colorado border, and locals will recognize the Herl namesake.