THIBODAUX -- Damion Jeanpiere Jr. has played in state championship games inside the Mercedes-Benz Superdome, so he has some experience inside big stadiums. But this was different.
This place didn't have a welcoming crowd. This place had a black-and-red face-painted man with spikes coming out of his shoulder pads near where the players walked onto the field.
This place had 93,000 seats. Nearly all were filled with Georgia fans. So it was about 10 minutes before kickoff when Jeanpiere came off the field with his Nicholls State teammates after warmups and went immediately to his phone and called his dad.