TALLAHASSEE, Fla. -- Word for word, Florida State’s DeMarcus Walker and Auden Tate expressed the same confidence. They sat on opposite sides of a room muddled with the cacophony of sound bites and shuffling feet, far outside earshot of each other.
The question was posed: Would most players stick it out like Sean Maguire if they were dealt the same hand of injuries, backup roles and benchings?
“No. No. Not at all,” Walker said.
And Tate, verbatim: “No. No. Not at all.”
Maguire’s career is a sequence of what-ifs, finally culminating on Florida State’s senior night.