It’s tough for a fourth string quarterback to enjoy the fruits of his labor. He plants, waters and nurtures so the depth chart No. 1 can feast. Sometimes the No. 2 guy will get a taste, other times the number three, but rarely the fourth string man himself.
It’s easy for him to question the 'what if’s' and 'why not’s'.
“What if I went to that other, smaller school?”
“Why can’t I be the starter? What is stopping me?”
That is not Tommy Vento, though, and it never has been.
Vento, now in his fifth-year senior season, has a couple more months left of a sport he was introduced to just 10 years ago.