COLUMBIA — For a moment, Chad Collard thought about walking away. The whole idea sounded crazy anyway. He didn’t play a down of high school football, and here he was, about to yank open that Mizzou Athletic Training Complex door, shake hands with Nick Otterbacher, the Missouri football team’s director of recruiting, and suggest that he’s 205 pounds of ambition and ready to give this big-time college football thing a try.
Determination pays off for walk on to MU football team
Thursday, April 3, 2008 | 8:46 p.m. CDT;
updated 2:43 p.m. CST, Thursday, January 15, 2009
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