ATLANTA -- "Nothing is ever given around here. Everything is earned."
Those were Georgia State head coach Shawn Elliott's words to his football team in Friday morning's team meeting. He was describing his backup center,
junior walk-on Jamal Paxton.
"We've got a young man in this room who I've watched for the last seven months work his tail off, fight for everything, say nothing, do a thankless
job," Elliott told the Panthers. "He continues to fight and fight and fight. He doesn't blink an eye at anything that's asked of him.
"He exemplifies everything we want to be as a team this year.