It was 5:30 a.m. and Derrick Bean put in the call.
Had the first two games of this season gone the way the 6-2, 226-pound Arkansas State University freshman linebacker had planned, a call like this would never have been necessary. As he once expected, Bean's freshman year would've been chalked up as a redshirt and a study session at sunrise would have been time better spent as extra sleep.
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But lucky for the Red Wolves and unlucky for sleep schedules, ASU found a gem much quicker than previously expected.