Keenan Reynolds knew his plan seemed a bit far-fetched.
A freshman? Starting? Here? After the grueling plebe summer? Running Navy’s vaunted triple-option?
But all of that didn’t seem far-fetched to the most important person: Reynolds.
“The kid just knows what he wants,” Navy offensive coordinator Ivin Jasper says. “This is my 20th year coaching. I’d never had a freshman play in this offense.”
Reynolds always had been a starting quarterback, at every level, on every team he’d played. Something had to give. And Reynolds didn’t want to leave anything to chance.
Instead of lying on a beach with his buddies, Reynolds spent spring break of his senior year here. He knew exactly what he needed to do to have a shot at that starting spot: He had to learn the option.
“He was everywhere,” Navy head coach Ken Niumatalolo says. “He’d sit in meetings, player meetings, coaches meetings. He wasn’t very talkative. I should have known then that this guy was taking everything in. He was observing and soaking everything in, just like a sponge.”
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