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It was after my sophomore football season that I realized that I wanted to play college football. I immediately got really excited after receiving a recruiting questionnaire from Benedictine, even though I didn't know anything about them. The summer of my junior year I thought that it would be a good idea to attend some college football camps to get better and to try and put myself out there and get noticed. I went to Emporia State's showcase camp and Butler's camp. I thought that I may have stood out and caught the coaches eye, when I was at the Butler camp. I then had a pretty good junior football season and was hoping that some colleges would be after me. I filled out Butler's online football questionnaire and later heard back from them, as they sent me a bunch of letters in the mail and one of the coaches texted me a few times. Butler was really the only school that I had a desire to go to because I felt as if I knew so much about them. My mother works there and my brother played basketball there. Also, I had really enjoyed going to their camps the past two years and I loved what they taught. Growing up, my mother would take me to Butler football games and then about midseaso my senior year I was invited to a game, where I got to go on the sideline as a recruit and talk to the coaches. I thought that this was a big deal and that they were for sure looking at me and recruiting me, but unfortunately, I don't think they were interested in me and I don't even think the coaches knew who I was. Towards the end of my senior football season, a new rule was passed in the Kansas Jayhawk Conference, that stated that there would no longer be an out of state limit for football scholarships. I didn't think much of it until I realized that none of the Kansas JUCOs were interested in me, despite me e-mailing every single one of them and filling out their questionnaires. I wasn't sure what to do after this, I had received some interest from some smaller NAIA schools like Ta bor, Sterling, Ottawa, MNU, and Benedictine, but I just couldn't see myself going to any of those schools and I knew that I wouldn't be satisfied with going to an NAIA. Also, going to an NAIA is very expensive and I wasn't sure if I had the funds to go there. I then saw that Hutchinson Community College was holding an open combine tryout in late April. I knew that last year that held one of those tryouts and that they got like five or six guys, who performed well on their team because of it. So I decided to take my chances and sign up for it. After I signed up for the tryout, I had the day of the tryout in my mind, every single day, as motivation. I knew that I would have to train very hard in order to stand out and put up good combine numbers. I wanted to make sure that I would perform well and earn myself a scholarship so I decided to try and find some help in order to train for the combine tryout. I searched the internet and stumbled across this place called the Wichita Parisi. T hey had a combine prep special for $300. I decided to take the risk and try and get signed up for it. I went down to there place, which is about a 20-30 minute drive, depending on the traffic, to get signed up and evaluated. I ended up talking to the owner there for about 30 minutes. I ended up signing up for a 3 month membership, which I paid $507 of my own money. I did this because the owner told me that even if I did make the team at Hutch, I would still need to put in work to become a better athlete, and if I didn't make the team at Hutch, he said that he could help me out and find me a place to play.