The water is long under the bridge now, but it never feels good to get spurned by your favorite childhood team.
Such was Tanner Farmer’s recruitment five years ago. He grew up dreaming of playing for the University of Illinois. A native of Highland, southeast of Champaign toward St. Louis, Farmer wanted nothing more than to commit to the Illini and play his college football there.
“I always wanted to go to Illinois growing up,” Farmer said Monday. “That’s where my grandfather went, I had a bunch of cousins go there and I always did well at their camps.