Staff Sergeant Larson

Former teammate and friend Jeff Larson joins the podcast after a mishap last week deleted his episode. Being that the sound engineer is myself, now it makes sense that a mistake was made. Jeff loved football and from an early age had a work ethic like none other. He would do anything asked of him and wanted to contribute as much as possible. He enlisted in the Army, and I remember freshmen year, he was in amazing shape compared to the rest of the group. Jeff played a few games as a freshman, on special teams or offense, defense, holding a clipboard, he did it all. Unfortunately, after that season, he went back into the army and was unable to play. It was a tough conversation to have with Coach Edsall and not playing for 2 seasons was a horrible disappointment. Jeff helped out with the equipment staff made up of avid podcast listeners Larry Hare and Chris Stasaitis. Coach Edsall said if anything changed, he could always come back. The Triumphant return of Jeff Larson was his senior season, and everyone was thrilled to have him back. At the Florida Atlantic game when we dropped 60 points on them at the last game ever at Memorial Stadium, we could not have written a better storybook ending. Joe Villipiano catching the last touchdown pass in the stadium. Jeff took the last snap, Victory to close off that chapter. Coach Edsall was sightly influenced by friends who spelled out Larson's name on their chest in 0-degree weather. L-A-R-S-O-N standing in unison, pushing players and coaches to make his grand entrance like Rudy, which he did to a thunderous ovation. The podcast has become more of a therapy session because I am talking to guys I went into battle with 20 years ago. To hear their journeys after graduation, see such success, impressive careers and now having families of their own. It gives me hope that Ill figure it out one day and carve out a successful path... finally.