Deon Cain wanted to play in the national championship game so bad last year he could not bear to watch it. In fact, he didn’t.
Instead, he turned off all the notifications on his phone and took his girlfriend on a date. He did everything he could not to remind himself of how much he let his teammates, and more so himself, down.
“I wanted to be in that game and I could not watch it being in that predicament,” Cain said on Monday as he spoke to the press for the first time since his Orange Bowl suspension two days before the College Football Playoff Game.