The mint julep may be sacred in the South, but so is college football, and that doesn’t stop us from enjoying it.
I don’t think it’s much different at this level. It just feels like playing high school football, college football. It’s the same games, the same routes.
About a year after I retired from playing, I decided that I wanted to getback to college, where I had the greatest time of my life, and to get involved with college football.
More people are watching college football on Snapchat than they are on television.
Kirby Smart is one of the best defensive minds in college football.
We want the best sort of 500 players or so that we can possibly get, and the best 500 players typically have a very similar background. They’ve played three or four years of college football. They’re mature. They’re professional.
I was playing college football, and I hurt my knee very badly my senior year, and I didn’t want to get a real job.
When someone tells me they’ve never been to a race, I tell them that the first one they should go to is Bristol, Tennesee. The shape of the track, the energy, and excitement under the lights is similar to what you might get at a stick-and-ball game in college football or the NFL.
I still carry it with me that I’m a I-AA guy and I had to go down to the minor leagues in college football and prove who I was.
You’re in pro football, it’s kind of interesting, because when you win, you draft last. In college football, you recruit. You gotta go after guys.
I think that college football is still a sport where fans really feel urgency every week.
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