Cam Cole chose to run all the way to Lawrence, Kansas.
Not as a physical trek, rather a college decision based on emotions – anger and confusion.
Two days prior to 2015 National Signing Day, University of Kansas first-year coach David Beaty extended Cole a preferred walk-on offer.
Cole’s final choice came down to walk-on options from Kansas and Central Michigan. His Saline High School football coach, Joe Palka, didn’t know Cole’s decision until the late hours of Feb. 3.
“It was last minute,” Palka said on the day Cole committed. “Recruiting is a crazy business; a lot has changed here in the last week and a half.