I was a freshman in high school and it was the start of the football season. In my mind, my expectations for this season were not high. I was expecting to play freshman ball, but I was to be proven wrong. I walked down and into to the locker for the first time of my life, and at this time we had a freshman team and we were locating the locker room. The freshman locker room was small and packed because we had about 15 kids. There was a lot of speculation if there was even going to be a team. We did not practice a lot because we could not practice with varsity without parent consent. Later on during the week, we got our game jerseys. I got number 12 since that was the only quarterback number left. Now at the time ,in varsity the starting quarterback
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The ball was placed on the 1 yard line and we had to go all the way to the other end zone. The coach called some plays and they were all runs. It came to fourth down and 10 to go to get a first down and we had to go 40 yards to score a touchdown. The coach called a run play, and in my head it did not make any sense, so I changed the play to a pass play. I said “Red, Set, Go" and we ran the pass play, the coaches were “Screaming that’s not the play!” I ignored what they were saying and continue the play. I waggled away and saw Zach McCammon covered. The right read would have been to keep the ball and run, however I decided to throw and "threaded the needle" to Zach. We completed the pass and I scored a touchdown. The coaches were surprised and a little bit mad that I changed the play call. Coach Puglio said, “That takes guts kid, I like that in you.” That comment to me made my day and change my life forever. Later in the month of August, we learned that there will no longer be a freshman football team. The freshman team was bumped up to Varsity and Junior Varsity. I had no clue I was going to end up starting a varsity game. We had a couple of weeks before our first game and I was going to start
The ball was placed on the 1 yard line and we had to go all the way to the other end zone. The coach called some plays and they were all runs. It came to fourth down and 10 to go to get a first down and we had to go 40 yards to score a touchdown. The coach called a run play, and in my head it did not make any sense, so I changed the play to a pass play. I said “Red, Set, Go" and we ran the pass play, the coaches were “Screaming that’s not the play!” I ignored what they were saying and continue the play. I waggled away and saw Zach McCammon covered. The right read would have been to keep the ball and run, however I decided to throw and "threaded the needle" to Zach. We completed the pass and I scored a touchdown. The coaches were surprised and a little bit mad that I changed the play call. Coach Puglio said, “That takes guts kid, I like that in you.” That comment to me made my day and change my life forever. Later in the month of August, we learned that there will no longer be a freshman football team. The freshman team was bumped up to Varsity and Junior Varsity. I had no clue I was going to end up starting a varsity game. We had a couple of weeks before our first game and I was going to start