Stratton Brown returned serve, turning the question into a rhetorical one. Why?
As one of 16 seniors on the Fresno State football team, the safety gets to captain an accountability team – each member answerable to the others when it comes to volunteering for community service, class attendance, completing required study hall hours, and attending team meetings and the like.
If one messes up, they all mess up and there are consequences, which can include some required running after practices that run long enough. In fall camp, with temperatures passing triple digits, it can be unpleasant.
And yet Brown and long snapper Justin Verrell, captains of one of eight teams, didn’t hesitate in selecting running back Dontel James with their No.