The walk-on life can be a tough go, less so now after the NCAA took on some student-athlete welfare issues. But back then, 2014, when Justin Allen, Anthony Grayson, Micah St. Andrew, David Tangipa and George Helmuth showed up at Fresno State to play some college football they really had no idea what was ahead.
They were five of 10, maybe 11 or 12 walk-ons relegated to the visitors’ baseball locker room at Beiden Field at the start of fall camp because the football locker room in the Duncan Building was under renovation and lacked enough space for all of the players.