On the first day of spring practice, as he stepped into his equipment and pulled an Indiana jersey over his head, Vinny Fiacable couldn’t believe what he was doing.
It was really happening, he told himself. The day he’d waited on for years was finally here. After making regular trips to Bloomington each fall for as long as he could remember, Fiacable was now part of the team. A Hoosier in full.
And while it feels like Fiacable was destined for a college football playing career at Indiana, where he’s the fourth member of his immediate family to wear the colors, the 6-foot-4, 318-pound offensive lineman isn’t taking anything for granted about this eagerly-anticipated IU experience.