GREEN BAY, Wis. -- As Dale and Anne Caparaso sat across the table from their prized pupil, watching him devour his grilled salmon and vegetables, they couldn’t help but marvel at how far he’d come.
Not long ago, Geronimo Allison been a disinterested student on his way to becoming the worst kind of ex-football player -- not a has-been, but a never-was. And now, he was about to board an airplane bound for the Green Bay Packers’ annual training camp, ready to battle the odds on a crowded wide-receiver depth chart.
Allison, though, was thinking further into the future than that, to when his playing career is over -- however soon or far off that might be -- and his plans then: To come back to Spoto High School in Riverview, Florida, serve as Dale’s assistant coach and make sure no other Spartans put themselves in the position he was during his sophomore and junior seasons, when he had to sit out because of academic ineligibility.