JOEY KNIGHT | Times
Central Michigan's Cooper Rush stood on Shorecrest's Haskell Field on a bright Thursday morning, reflecting on the moment he segued from four-year starter to folk hero.
"Definitely will look back in a few years and go, 'Wow, that was a good one,'" he said.
The 2016 season barely had dawned when Rush and his Chippewas teammates crossed the threshhold of YouTube immortality. With no time remaining and his team down by three at Oklahoma State, Rush took a shotgun snap at midfield, stepped up in his narrowing pocket and flung a prayer toward classmate Jesse Kroll.