The stereotype of a college football player is one of a cocksure young stud who bleeds confidence.
While that might be the case for some players, it’s not the case for all of them.
For example, there’s Nevada running back James Butler, a supremely gifted, motivated and hard-working sophomore who has had to learn to believe in himself. That hasn’t always come naturally. After Butler began the season with two sub-par games, his confidence wasn’t were it needed to be.
“I felt like it was going to be my freshman year all over again where I’m getting two or three yards a pop and it’d be another 500- or 600-yard season,” said Butler, who rushed for just 98 yards combined in his first two games this year.