Feb. 13, 2018
DENTON - In some respect, it's a good thing Kason Martin left Manvel when he did.
The freshman quarterback enrolled early at UNT just two weeks after playing in one of the most talked about high school football games in history.
He said he couldn't walk around town without people asking him about the game - the Class 5A Division I state championship game, which his team lost in heartbreaking fashion after coming up literally a yard short of winning as time expired.
He figured with a relocation to Denton, he'd be able to walk around campus without people asking him about the game that was still weighing heavily on his mind. He was wrong.
One of his first days in Denton found him eating in the cafeteria at his new dormitory when an upperclassman student-athlete came up to him.
"Hey, you're that Manvel quarterback, right? I saw you in that game."
"You've gotta be kidding me," Martin thought.
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