NORMAL — To know Gabe Megginson is to know when the affable Jacksonville native is joking.
“They haven’t broken my spirit yet,” Megginson declared Thursday after an Illinois State football practice at Hancock Stadium. “I’m still around.”
Megginson was joking. First, the Redbirds have no desire to break Megginson’s spirit. And secondly, it is a spirit not easily broken.
After beginning his college football career at the University of Illinois in 2015, Megginson isn’t passing up a chance at a sixth and final year even though the ISU season has been delayed until a February season opener.