Jamir Tillman was a new arrival to the Naval Academy standing wide-eyed in Bancroft Hall when he spotted a fellow football player with a broad smile and a look of confidence.
"I was standing on bulkhead and Shawn was across the hall from me and I just knew that guy was going to be my best friend," Tillman said this week. "Sometimes you just get a feeling. You know how when you meet your soul-mate? Shawn is kind of my guy soul-mate in a non-weird way, a friend way."
Four years later, White remembers that first meeting with Tillman a bit differently.