Eldridge Thompson spent the past month few weeks preparing for what he hoped was his first taste of Division I football in South Carolina’s opener.
The linebacker also would have had every right to be worried about his family. As he played in junior college in Kansas, they moved from his hometown of Memphis to Houston, where Hurricane Harvey delivered catastrophic damage.
Instead, he was upbeat while talking about it because they were lucky, or something more.
“They just got blessed, to be honest,” Thompson said. “Because they live in the complex area, the apartment didn’t have any water.