Christian DiLauro is trying to reach the NFL. And the 23-year-old former Illinois offensive lineman is giving The News-Gazette a weekly look into his journey. Here’s his seventh entry (catch the whole series at IlliniHQ.com):
The first memory I can remember about being recruited from Illinois would have to be the phone call in which coach Tim Beckman and coach Alex Golesh called to inform me that they were offering me a scholarship. It was a bad day turned into an amazing one since earlier that day I had my first track meet and did terrible in discus that day, so hearing that the University of Illinois was offering me a full scholarship definitely made that day a special one.