Growing up in Tampa, Alex McGough always had a ball in his hands. His younger brother, Shane McGough, always had a knife.
The two brothers, who are extremely close but opposites in various ways, are FIU students and football players.
Alex, a 6-3, 215-pounder, is the only fourth-year starting quarterback in Conference USA and possibly a future coach. He is set to officially begin his senior year – and his first under coach Butch Davis — on Sept. 2 at Central Florida.
Shane, a 6-2, 280-pound redshirt freshman, is a second-string center and avid fisherman and hunter.