Every game, they would approach him, coaches from other schools, swapping stories and tall tales.
Always, the subject matter would turn, in animated fashion, to a specific moment in time.
“The guys would come up to me and it would be, ‘Oh my God, the first five plays of the Maryland game,’’ Ray McCartney told The Post.
This was not a recounting of divine intervention, but Nikita Whitlock intervention — the first five plays of the Demon Deacons’ game against Maryland in 2013, Whitlock’s senior year. Five plays, five solo tackles. Sack. Tackle for loss. Runs down screen on the sideline.