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Finally coming into his own, no regrets for former Husker recruit Bubba Starling

There sits 19-year-old Bubba Starling, big grin painted across his face, Sharpie in his right hand and a red No. 16 Nebraska football jersey stretched across his shoulders.

He was the star attraction of that Nebraska football Fan Day back in 2011, Paul Bunyan in scarlet and cream, a mythical figure whose football highlights were only surpassed by his tape-measure home runs for Gardner Edgerton High School in Kansas near Kansas City.

Starling was a legend in Kansas before he got his diploma. Then the major-league baseball team just up the road made him the fifth overall pick in the 2011 draft and offered him $7.