Senior Day is coming in Gainesville, and you know The Swamp will be submerged in tears for Tim Tebow. It will be similarly maudlin in Austin for Colt McCoy.
But the Senior Day that really should put a walnut in your throat passed without much notice Saturday at Princeton. A round of applause, please, for Jordan Culbreath.
You probably don't know the name. Haven't seen him on TV. Didn't obsess over his recruitment. Don't know his stats.
But in a season smeared by punches and eye gouges and armed robberies, Culbreath deserves your respect and support. He is everything that's good and right about college athletics -- former walk-on turned all-Ivy League running back, team captain, mechanical and aerospace engineering major -- and he's going through hell. You should hear his struggle, and appreciate the way he and his football family are enduring it.
Jordan wore his No. 21 jersey for Senior Day on Saturday when Princeton played Yale, but that was it in terms of uniform. He put away his pads and helmet for good in September, when a sprained ankle helped save his life.
Appalachian State Mountaineers:
National Champions: 2005, 2006, and 2007 Southern Conference Champions: 1986, 1987, 1991, 1995, 1999, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, and 2012
NO DOUBT ABOUT IT! WE'RE GONNA SHOUT IT! NOTHING'S HOTTER THAN A-S-U!
