Several weeks into his freshman year at Los Angeles Pierce College, Blaze Alldredge sat in his dorm room, pondering packing his bags. It was time for a reflection — a reality check about his future on the gridiron.
“Maybe you’re not as good as you think you are,” Alldredge said to himself.
It’s a recurring thought that races through the minds of junior college football players. With hundreds of thousands of young men pursuing the same dream, it’s inevitable that success only translates into reality to some. Alldredge, enduring the defeat of zero FBS offers out of high school, had to determine if it was worth betting on his athletic abilities.