Each of our Big Ten writers was asked to pick a Big Ten football “Person of the Year” for the 2015 season. Over the next few hours on the blog, each writer will lay out the case for his choice.
Forget about "Rudy," the great football movie that was a total lie. Who's writing the Carl Nassib screenplay?
Truth is sometimes stranger than fiction, and Nassib's story is one of the greatest individual underdog stories of our time: A tall, skinny kid who never starts a high school game -- even Rudy was at least all-conference -- walks on to the state school, works hard and doesn't start until his fifth and final college season.