... 2009 semester, everyone likes to spend this time analyzing where teams are going to be in December (or for those lucky enough, January). However, I have always believed that you cannot figure out where you are going until you know where you came from.

So the easiest place to start is this day, one year ago. Aug. 27, 2009, just under a few days from the first game of the season against the Football Championship Subdivision, Illinois State, there was a young Freshman wearing the number 10 who was the favorite coming out of fall camp.

There were rumors of a return to glory and comparisons to a certain professional player taking snaps in Miami who once walked the campus of Marshall University abounded. Meanwhile in the shadows of Joan C....

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