SANTA CLARA, Calif. — More than 3,000 miles from the site of the national title game, in a suburb of Miami, Wesley Carroll feels like a teenager again. His name is crawling across ESPN’s BottomLine ticker, and his phone is abuzz with excited messages from friends and family members. Reporters are making hurried attempts to interview him before the big game, and his father’s co-workers are greeting dad with, “Oh, hey! I saw your son on TV!”
Days before the College Football Playoff national championship game between Alabama and Clemson plays out in the Bay Area, a 30-year-old private quarterback coach in Davie, Fla.