06-11-2011 05:37 PM

Ryan Adams was easily the best player in the area at his position last football season. But unlike scores of other great players and even teammates, he wasn’t close to landing a college athletic scholarship.

No matter that he had crisscrossed the Midwest, attending every summer football camp he could find. In his estimation, he went to 30 during his high school career at Carroll.

“The only way that you’re going to get a scholarship is to kick in front of them,” Adams said. “I went all over, all summer.”

The message was the same everywhere he went: We like you, but …

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