By Foster Nicholas | Sports Editor
When the lights turn off, some people count sheep, while others dream of flying, falling or losing the occasional tooth. But when redshirt sophomore Keaton Thomas lays his head on his pillow at night, the X’s and O’s of head coach Dave Aranda’s unique defensive playbook flicker like an old movie on repeat projected against his eyelids.
“I’m somebody who’s definitely heavily into manifestation and visualizing before I do it. So before I go to sleep, I watch tape. Then I can see the whole field, the concept that [the offense is] running and what I have to do in that play before actually going out and doing it the next day,” Thomas said.