It was the spring of 2011 and Devontae Booker couldn't get his life going. He didn't have the SAT score to play for a major college football team and couldn't get down to the junior college an hour from his home in a rough part of Sacramento because he didn't have a car. He was out of school, out of football. And after a few months of lying around on his parents' couch, he took a job at FedEx, loading and unloading packages off a conveyor belt.
At the same time, Dennis Erickson's stellar coaching life was reaching its end.