2004 - 2008 @ MT
2014 - 2016 @ APSU (Online program to complete Masters)
I lived on campus in a dorm for a year (can't remember the name), and Campus Crossings for a year as well. Remainder of time I lived with family. Jonathan Hutton was my dorm roommate and big brother in ATO. He used to own and run this site and I helped him work the back end with recruiting. My first MT football game was the 2004 FAU game, where they won on the last play of the game for their first win in Division 1 history. How fitting, huh ? I did end up making friends with a handful of players during my time at MT after that 2004 season. Clint Marks, Dennis Burke, Chance Dunleavy...all great guys. We had many good times together. Also Jay Robinson, Roy Polite, Damon Nickson, Walt Bell, Luke Paschall, Cleanard Saintil, Colby Smith....All kinds of different guys from different backgrounds but came together and had a lot of fun times.
I'll never forget the build-up to the 2005 season, Clint was being talked about on the radio in the same breath as Vanderbilt's darling, Jay Cutler. I recall even some radio hosts saying they would take Clint over Jay at that time. Clint was coming off an impressive sophomore season with huge expectations for his junior and senior seasons. There was a lot of hope and optimism going into that 2005 season for the team as a whole. I remember opening @ Alabama and playing them tough. Outside of some unfortunate turnovers that game was much closer than the score indicated. Everyone thought for sure we would come home and FINALLY take care of North Texas. But a super flukey game, including 5 turnovers to their 0, helped North Texas somehow win 14-7. We came back a 6 point favorite at home the following week against Akron in week 3 and managed to clinch another L, a for sure hangover game after the disappointing give away game to North Texas the previous week. We could have very easily been 2-1 after the Akron game but murphy's law was in full effect, dropping us to 0-3.
Week 4, we rolled into Nashville a 17 point underdog without a win to our name, facing an undefeated Vanderbilt squad (4-0) at the time who was rolling. Ya'll know the rest. We block the kick to win, and Vanderbilt only wins 1 game for the rest of the season to finish with 5 wins, 1 short of a bowl game! Clint outduels the snobby Jay Cutler, who we saw out on the town in a bar off demonbreun at some point that season (can't remember if before or after that game) and he pretended like he didn't know who Clint was. He knew, and his pretentious ass team got beat by a winless MT squad that had bad coaches.