Flashback to 2017, and Iowa football running back Mekhi Sargent had no Division I offers. The 5′-10″ 200 pound back was barely recruited coming out of Key West High School, so he decided to enroll at Iowa Western Community College.
“It’s extremely hot and humid,” Sargent said. “You have grass fields down there because it’s so hot. No turf fields. It was hard getting noticed. We’re an island cut off from the mainland. Every away game, we have to travel three hours. Teams that come to us have to travel three hours. A lot of recruiters don’t want to come that way.