Greg Windham Jr., the fifth-year senior starting quarterback for the Ohio University football team, is his father’s namesake.
He accepts, and wants to live up to the responsibility of that name. It’s not a burden.
“The one thing my dad told me was to ‘Finish the job.’ Before I left home that last time, and he was in the hospital, he told me ‘Just finish the job. Don’t ever give up,’’ Windham said. “I told him ‘I got you, Dad.’
“That stuck with me,” he continued. “I have to do this…for my father, for my family, for myself.