"Have you become a kind of family with the rest of the football team?"
“Yeah. This past Thanksgiving, there were about twenty other guys at one of the player’s houses, and his family cooked dinner for us. All the food went by really quickly.”

               “There can’t have just been one turkey.”

“I think there were three. And she had big ol’ plates full of potato salad and collard greens.”

               “What is the transition like from high school to college football?”

“It’s very different. You got guys who have been playing college football for three years, working out for three years. Growing men, really. You can definitely feel the difference physically and mentally. There are higher expectations: the coaches expect a lot more of you, your teammates expect more of you. It helps you mature on and off the field.”