Football is always about more than the sport, especially at the collegiate level, when the athletes are also earning an education and growing up alongside competing at the highest level.
A lot of the time, those athletes aren't even earning scholarship money for playing. College football is a huge source of walk-on athletes, where a player tries out for the simple chance of getting to play the game they love.
That is, until the team's head coach gets the opportunity to make the athlete's dream come true and grant them a scholarship to play the sport, which is exactly what Auburn head coach Hugh Freeze did for Cam'Ron King this week.