CORONA, Calif. — Tanner McKee didn't see it happen. Didn't watch the true freshman quarterback create magic and become a national champion. Didn't know a star was born that night in January.
Instead, McKee—a 6'6", 220-pound senior quarterback from Centennial High who has driven Nick Saban's boat and exchanged pleasantries with Condoleezza Rice during his recruitment—was sitting 37,000 feet in the air, his long legs stuffed under the commercial airline seat in front of him.
The nation's top uncommitted high school quarterback was returning to his home in Corona after spending a week at the U.