TAMPA — After all the all the parties and the pills and failed drug tests got him kicked out of Ohio State, Noah Spence decided the thing that mattered most to him was playing football.
"When I hit rock bottom, when I felt like I had nothing else left, when I lost football, I knew I had to turn my life around," Spence said. "I had to realize what I loved and I knew I loved the game. I had to do what I had to do to be able to have it.
"Football is my life.