As a highly rated prospect out of powerhouse high school program Bishop Gorman in Las Vegas, Tate Martell had his pick of college programs as coach after coach made their way to the desert to watch him play.
The eventual U.S. Army All-American and USA Today National Player of the Year reveled in the spotlight, his big arm helping him draw even the attention of CBS’s renowned 60 Minutes, which featured him as a 14-year-old budding quarterback prodigy who’d learned from one of the best coaches in the game, Steve Clarkson.
Yet the Hurricanes never came calling, as much as Martell hoped they would.