When he woke Wednesday, he figured he’d be just another signee. Just another tweet from the account of a respected FCS football program. The news was huge for his family—free college!—but the zero-star recruit doubted it would register on a day dedicated to the five-stars and their hat dances.
So he signed his National Letter of Intent and his financial aid paperwork and sent it to his chosen school. At 8:19 a.m. Central, the account for that respected FCS program fired out that tweet to tell the nation who had just signed.
The nation was paying attention.