Stetson Bennett didn’t make it. Or, well, you know, couldn’t make it. Been there. He was scheduled to appear at Georgia’s morning-after press conference but either assumed his media obligations at the program should have ended, or maybe he was still feeling the after-effects of so much post-championship … happiness … life’s excessive celebration penalty. So teammate Brock Bowers was asked to sub in.
“I was coming off the elevator, I saw coach Smart and I started walking to go eat some breakfast,” Bowers said. “They said, ‘You’re in the bullpen. Come to media.’ I’m, like, ‘OK, I’m in. Stetson is not going to make it. I guess I gotta go.’”
Stetson did enough. He took BMOC to another level. His improbable college story, appropriately ending in a stadium near Hollywood, came to a glorious ending with a second consecutive national championship. He proved everybody wrong about his aspirations to start, to win and to swat away doubters as a starting quarterback in Athens. Now he’ll try to do the same in the NFL.
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