Did anyone actually play ncaa ball ?

I did. I played at Jacksonville State from 97-00. Back then we played in the Southland conference, and one of my best games came against Stephen F Austin in Nacogdoches. I was a slot receiver throughout my career and that day I was often covered on spread formations by a LB that turned out to be Jeremiah Trotter. I ended up with 4 catches for 80 yards. We did have one play where it called for me to cut block him on a wide run. Long story short, he went to the ground, but my shoulder felt like it was still on the 20 yard line while the rest of my body made it to the sideline. It was like hitting a Mack truck.

Some of my favorite games to play were the games in Louisiana. Games against McNeese and Nichols were always packed houses and always loud. Loved those atmospheres.

The coaches I played for ended up in really high places actually. Here are some of them...

Doug Meacham was our OC. He is now the Co-OC for TCU. Patrick Nix and Mike Bobo were our QB coaches during my time. My position coach at WR was Jason Simpson, who is now the Head Coach at UT Martin. The DB coach/DC was Charles Kelly who is now famously at FSU.

I did go on to play for 2 years in the Arena Leagues and ended up as a scout in the front office after that for a few years before embarking on a professional management career.

Nope, I did a sport much harder to get a scholarship in.

Nope, played baseball for Tarleton though

I played 2 years at a Juco. Started at tight end as a freshman for 3 games then got moved to starting right tackle because our tackle was injured. That move kept me from getting a D1 scholarship because I was built like a tight end/defensive end and couldn't get my weight over 260 lbs

I was a center and was asked to play while at Tarleton but I wanted to play baseball and rodeo.

Hell, no. Was recruited by some academic inclined D1 schools. Rutgers was the most notable. I'm 5'8" on a good day and they projected me at 235-245lbs playing fullback. I was right at 200. Couldn't see myself putting on that naturally and damn sure didn't want to put the wear and tear on my body. I got a couple of friends that did and they hobble around like they're 30 years older than me.

And although steroids were never mentioned, When I asked how the hell was I gonna put on 40 more lbs of muscle, I was told "there are ways" at almost every school I looked at. It's a shame kids are encouraged to do PHD's even at the shittier, less successful programs. Not to condone it at any level, but damn!!! It shocked me how common place it was and how damn near EVERYBODY did them.

Negative. I was an ATA for a D1 program though and it was a lot of fun seeing the inside of a football program like that.

I won the Heisman on Road to Glory

I had an offer to be a preferred walk-on at UNA at WR. I never really cared much about football and went to Bama to frick around instead. I regret it sometimes but I likely would have never had the motivation to do anything good.

If I had made an effort to lifting weights and gaining bulk, I may have had better opportunities. I'm a lanky sonofabitch, but had I gotten up to 220 or 230 I'd have been a serviceable wideout or TE. Might have been a good basketball player but I never tried.

I was more concerned about the grass off the field than on it, though.