Rick Gamboa came into this season as part of the new blood in the linebacking corps, a redshirt freshman who was going to cut his teeth under the wings of upperclassman Addison Gillam and Kenneth Olugbode.
Bang. Bang. Bang. Just like that those two guys have gone down with injuries, as well as junior fill-in Ryan Severson. All of the sudden Gamboa is the leader, having to take two guys even less experienced that he is under his wing, true freshman N.J. Falo and fellow redshirt-freshman Grant Watanabe.
“I’m the only one that has game experience right now,” Gamboa said.