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It was the summer before the 2005 college football season and Boise State head coach Bryan Harsin, then the Broncos’ tight ends coach, was walking to his office when he saw a gangly quarterback.
The kid’s name was Colin Kaepernick.
“He’d come to our camp,” Harsin said this week. “He and his dad both were both sitting there outside my office and here’s this long, skinny dude that had been there in camp and threw the ball decently.”
Yes, there was a chance, in an alternative reality, where Kaepernick would have landed at Boise State rather than Nevada.