Kansas State head coach Casey Alexander, whose first Wildcats team features 13 newcomers, including 10 Division I transfers, and which has garnered sub-average outside expectations, made an emphatic opening statement on Wednesday at Big 12 Men's Basketball Media Days.
A calmness falls over sophomore JoJo Scott as he tells the tale, the one that began holding the pigskin at age 7, and that featured adversity and an uncertain path handful of years later before the young cornerback rediscovered his passion for the gridiron. The 19-year-old Scott didn't have the easiest road, but he says that he didn't have the hardest road, either, growing up the baby of three children and watching his mother, Priscilla, do everything that she could for her children in Lakeland, Florida.
After its emotional win over Kansas to extend the nation's longest winning streak by a team in a rivalry game, it's back to business for Kansas State, which prepares to visit Arizona State at 2:45 p.m. (CT) Saturday at Mountain America Stadium.
He snuck up from behind, him wearing his black sweater over a purple-and-white button-down, black jeans and white shoes, and a sly grin crept across his face, as he saw the back of the gray-suited gentleman, a tuft of white hair, standing and surveying the crowd inside the lobby of the Vanier Family Football Complex.
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