GREEN BAY, Wis. -- John Mannion remembers the little notepad, a yellow one that his son, Sean, brought with him. Young Sean, 7 years old at the time, wanted to tag along while his dad went to scout a rival high school in Northern California.
As the game went on, John noticed Sean writing things down. By the time it was over, Sean had filled the pages -- but not with the doodles and scribbles of a second grader.
"My coaching buddy and I went to scout a team on a Saturday, and we brought him along," recalled John, then the coach at Foothill High School in Pleasanton, California.