Three season-ending injuries, a year hampered by COVID, and two MAC titles later, Kyle Pugh begins one last journey at NIU.
The melodies of Fetty Wap music blare from apartments adjacent to a college campus. The sidewalks visible from those apartment balconies are littered with hoverboards. Students return in droves, noses entrenched in their phones on popular apps such as Vine and YikYak.
This is the scene on many college campuses across the United States in August 2015, including the one at Northern Illinois University in DeKalb, a few hours away from Chicago.