In “The Scotsman,” Utah State’s unofficial fight song written by a student in the early 1900s, the final lyrics say, “Show me a true-blooded Aggie from Utah, who doesn’t love the spot where the sagebrush grows.”
While that final sentence in the song fits many who are passionate about Utah State and its athletic programs, you’d be hard-pressed to find anyone more dyed in the wool, true Aggie blue through and through, than DJ Nelson.
Nelson’s Aggie blood runs extremely deep.
His great-grandfather is George “Doc” Nelson, the longtime trainer and wrestling coach at USU – known as the Utah State Agricultural College (USAC) in those days.