NDSQBU: The Emergence of Trey Lance in an Unlikely College Football Dynasty

for an fcs school to get the run off quarterbacks they had started with steve walker walker pulls it down fires in the end zone touchdown and then you have brock jensen who left as the all-time wins leader in fcs history as a quarterback then a guy named carson wentz [Applause] you're thinking okay lance is gone good run it was a nice run of quarterbacks and here comes easton stick well he ends up becoming a draft pick of the los angeles chargers stick trey lance again highly recruited kid but you really don't know how he's going to pan out and what does he do he turns in the greatest season in the history of fcs football for a quarterback no interceptions leads a team in rushing unbeaten season wins two major awards it's gonna be hard to top that but what was amazing is that so many other schools around here some of the bigger programs did not want him to be a quarterback they recruited him to be a defensive player and he was north dakota state's first commit and look what it's led to this guy's been unbelievable my name is trey lance i'm quarterback at north dakota state originally from marshall minnesota i wanted to be a quarterback i knew i was a quarterback from probably the time i stepped on the field for real my sophomore year i kind of knew that's what i wanted to do if i was going to play college football was it was be a quarterback and i honestly took a little bit of offense to it when i was labeled an athlete whatever you know just because i was an athletic kid i could play quarterback i think i don't know if it's frustrating but i definitely notice it it's definitely something that i want to change but i know it's never going to go away at the same time [Music] i think it's too into the moment right now for a lot of people to understand exactly what they're seeing nobody really goes to a game and goes i'm watching history they go there because they want to watch their team win have a good time go tailgate [Music] i never thought 33 would be broken in my lifetime it's been remarkable to see in the same decade by the same program north dakota state football goes back decades it was such a source of pride for the community for the university and as the program continued to evolve they just continued to stack winning season on top of winning season and no matter who the coach was the machine just kept rolling all the way through the division two days in the 80s into the 90s there was so much success that this foundation was laid then we transitioned into division one craig bowle you know came on during that transition as the head coach and he really built a foundation of winning he knew how to do it at that level you know they talk about the bison culture craig bowl really instilled that here the thought of going to vision one was still a scare for a lot of people around here because they weren't sure we are we really ready for this next step you know that bitmoji where everybody looks up in the sky that exactly was what i think the reaction was the program had some success early well there's two things that happened one was in 2003 as a division two school ndsu went off to the university of montana grizzlies at the time were the benchmark for one double-a football and we're all thinking okay this game's going to go 49 7 56 5 6 or something like that [Applause] snyder gets it up and it is wide right ndsu has just upset the montana grizzlies 25-24 the bison have done what very few have to the montana grizzlies and that was sort of the i would say the jumping off point for the wave of enthusiasm for division one athletics and this is i would think another jumping off point when the bison beat the university of minnesota play action fake touchdown bison they sent for shaw in motion jangoola out of williston and then all of a sudden you started to see people start to change the way i think the way they looked at themselves when people see games see the excitement and then their success on the national level the whole state feels a part of it and i think that's when bison nation grew into this massive unit that it is here today when they had access to it and everyone felt a part of it tailgating is massive so it's become an event more than a game it's really been something to see how this community has just become so nuts in so gaga over this university in this athletic program they draw people from around the region so in a sense your big time sporting event is bison football all the alumni became very prideful and then all of the winning started and it just wrapped into this big mass of people that we call by the nation today [Music] it's fun to recruit kids who grow up wanting to be bison and talking about when they were five and six years old coming to games and and wearing the uniform and dreaming of being a bison that's a unique opportunity that i have as a head football coach i want kids who who want to be here who want to be successful and get their degrees guys who've been captains guys who've played multiple sports guys who are in some sort of leadership role at their high school in their church in their community and this program has figured it out on recruiting i don't want to say mastered it because nobody ever masters recruiting but pretty close what they do is they they take this this mix of these tough kids from a lot of times smaller communities that they develop they can throw some pounds on them and then they'll bring in some speed guys from maybe florida or texas i think one thing when they made the division one move everybody thought okay there's the end of any players from north dakota ever playing at ndsu football almost opposite has held true i think they found these kids from the smallest of communities cordell volson is from rural belfort north dakota it was kind of a dream come true to come here you grow up watching them and just thinking these guys are are superstars you know and north dakota state is your is your nfl team you know if coach hedberg wouldn't have came and knocked on the door it's like shoot half the guys here would be back home farming or working or doing whatever so it kind of just opens up a lot of doors you get to see a see a lot of cool places you know you you do a lot of things you wouldn't have done otherwise and so they find these guys who think nothing of getting up at 5am going working on the farm go to school go to practice come home get up at 5am do it over again anytime you talk about north dakota state you talk about the state of north dakota toughness needs to be an adjective that you use to describe us [Music] they find these guys that just buy in and are almost trouble free i don't care how fast you are how quick you are how great a hands you have or how what your coverage skills are if you're not a good character and you're not willing to take care of your classwork ndsu is probably not the place for you jim cramer he's the strength coach and i think he's one of the best in the country and he's been the one constant through all the head coaches and he builds a relationship with the players i think that's stronger than most strength coaches he's almost a coach himself you know the mvp of this program is jim cramer he came here in 2002 is still here the players swear by him he's around the players more than the coaches he's the guy who's taken a lot of these kids who are so raw when they get here just so raw physically and just develops her their lean muscle mass he's just done such a great job and the players really respect him so he's a big part of it i write about it so i think i have a pretty good idea on it i wrote a book about it it starts with culture and nobody was more important in the rise of the dynasty than jim cramer okay one person all right is not more important than another person one person doesn't make this program all right this program is about people people make the program not one person that's my reaction the emphasis that he puts on the details how hard he is on us you know he really treats everyone the same regardless of if you're a four-year starter or if you're it's your first day on campus i think just the culture that he you know it's in his blood it really is the person who's going to have the most interaction with our players over the course of the year is going to be the strength conditioning coach so he has to be the very best as far as physical development and mental development and we have it as a strength conditioning coach you want to kind of be a reflection of the head coach and what he emphasizes in practice or at practice that day it needs to be emphasized in the weight room everybody needs to be on the same page just having our players learn how to finish whether it's finishing a drill finishing the game finishing the season finishing the academic year we even talk about it now things like that and instilling that into the strength and conditioning program that is what we're trying to do with the football program those are the biggest things that we remember as players uh just that they're looking out for us you know on or off the field but at the same time they're going to push us you know and get everything everything they can out of us and lance there's something about the way this team prepares for games how hard they practice it's nothing i've seen or experienced in a lot of other places and when you have that type of buy-in great things happen and we've seen that here's the thing about ndsu though i would not underestimate them and i think a lot of these fps programs do simply because of geography you're in fargo north dakota a lot of people in the country don't even know where that's at it's closer to canada than anything else i mean we're up here fellas we are we're damn near near the arctic circle when you go to school up here [Music] it's cold i mean it is brutal sometimes in the winter you get those alberta clippers it just takes your breath away and i don't know if that develops some sort of bond with people at this university like yeah i graduated from ndsu and i survived it too because you can die walk into class if you're not dressed right it is an fcs school and it always will be just because of geography but there's a lot of fbs qualities about this program the support the players are treated well the fans treat the players well the players are good to the community they volunteer they're 9-3 against fbs i mean they match up pretty well against these programs because they're physical enough they can they can handle the trenches there's a lot of fbs schools who a lot of fbs schools who will not return the 701 area code number they will not play them no way [Music] i wasn't sure they could win at kansas state i wasn't sure they could win at minnesota i certainly wasn't sure they could win at iowa touchdown but every time there's some sort of doubt this team just continues to say now we can compete with anybody fcs football has gotten really good it's competitive it's hard-nosed it's tough it's become a really good level of football and i hope people start to pay attention to it more because i really feel like the level's only going to get better and better and better it's on par with a lot of the g5 schools out there [Music] and a lot of people that just have no idea really what fcs football is all about and they see the label fcs and they just you know assume it's similar to division two football and i think we compete with a lot of fbs teams that a lot of people don't don't think that we can when the success started to follow some of the fbs wins all of a sudden people said wow this north dakota state program is pretty legit and it just continued to build and grow and grow into this dynasty now that we've experienced over the last decade we went on this run starting in 2011 that hasn't stopped right now eight of nine titles it's our job to to cover this team for better for worse and it's a lot better than worse that's for sure you know it was just a a unique situation school located as far north as as ndsu is did an outstanding job you always saw him in minneapolis getting the best players throughout the midwest i think as a whole team everyone just helped each other along and that was a huge part of our success [Music] helps you have a good quarterback [Music] i know we're not an nfl caliber football team but we play like them we mimic them schematically and i think that's critical when we do recruit quarterbacks i think those young men come here and are able to handle the the verbiage that goes with play calling the the in-game adjustments uh randy hedberg quarterback coach ndsu i played college football and then i got drafted in the national football league i got drafted by tampa out of uh college and played a couple years with them and then a short time with the oakland raiders our offense is a pro style type offense and our quarterbacks you know get into a mentality of playing under center and a little bit out of the gun and i think they get some good background in in the pro game a little bit from our system and i think it prepares them well to go to the next level but obviously you got to have players that have some talent and that want to learn and have the intelligence level to do that and process at the line of scrimmage so and i think we've been very fortunate to have that over the last few years north dakota state's offensive system is extremely complex there are a lot of different things that you have to understand and know how to do when you're under center you're making the calls you're putting guys in motion the play that's getting run is what you see on the field on how defense is aligned they put a lot on these guys mentally not just physically but mentally on how to run an offense and it's such a huge challenge it's not about throwing the ball 50 times a game it's about playing good football and winning ball games that get you opportunities at the next level it goes way back there's been a lot of great players you know i think in the division two era there was a lot of winning that really set the foundation then the transition to division one in the great west conference i think really built the the foundation for the talent level that had to move up to division one steve walker came in at quarterback and really set the stage there in that era steve walker who was the the guy who beat ball state he was a division two quarterback recruit who had division one accuracy for an arm [Music] brock jensen came in in 2010 right in that spot you know we were kind of struggling at the quarterback position a little bit uh right then and brock jensen came in and stabilized it and he did it with leadership and toughness the quarterback position at ndsu it's not just a drop back passer they have to run the ball they have to know the system very well so brock started that and then the winning started [Music] and then you enter carson wentz you know i think we all knew he was going to be great he waited three years before he even played to the right bra the wide man shotgun you know had a really good arm the stature he had a big kid you know 6'5 could really run when he started playing he really elevated everything [Music] then you go to easton stick you know he was a different kind of quarterback more of a running quarterback but he developed into a great passer because of randy hedberg [Music] all four of these quarterbacks are just hard-nosed tough competitors that just refuse to lose they're guys that would run through brick walls if they had to win a game yeah you're not going to be one of those quarterbacks that throws the ball 30 35 40 times a game we may only throw it 18 times but we still need you to run this offense we still need you to pick up big third downs we still need you to understand that you're still an integral part of this system every single one of those guys understood that that group of guys just took this program to another level had to start from somewhere and for a division one fcs program to really bring in that meaning in a row is is beyond belief really steve walker brock jensen carson wentz easton stick this is probably your next guy here whenever randy hedberg tells us this kid is special we know it's the truth because the proof is there he has identified talent developed talent and when randy said this kid is special we all kind of knew at that point well well trey attended our our summer camp between his sophomore and junior years and then again after his junior season you notice the athleticism right away and the size and he had the ability to throw the football across the field those are things i saw with him and then then i watched him play basketball and you know during his senior season and i saw the competitiveness that he had and and all and um i think that was the thing that stood out to me the most first time i saw trey lance was when he came in as a true freshman late in the game and i think he took like a quarterback run up the middle maybe changing the play takes a snap lance will throw it steps up now he'll run there and just sprinted by guys like they were just standing there [Applause] then later in the season i think he got in on a second game as a true freshman in that four game rule fumbled the snap picked it up and scored number two he's out here now he fumbles the snap he'll run it up the middle then he's gonna bust it to the outside are you kidding me trot in there [Applause] and i think we figured that out and it only took two plays that this guy was something pretty special but what was amazing is that so many other schools around here some of the bigger programs did not want him to be a quarterback they recruited him to be a defensive player we don't think you can be a quarterback at our level but we think you can still help us at our level or north dakota state is like hey you come here you be our quarterback we believe you can be a quarterback and excel at that position and you saw it even in his redshirt freshman year i always felt on the inside like i'm a quarterback since i started playing it and i honestly took a little bit of offense to it when i was labeled an athlete whatever you know just because i was an athletic kid i could play quarterback you know it's still to this day i think that people get it mixed up you know whether that i can't throw the ball little things like that i don't know if it's frustrating but i definitely notice it it's definitely something that i want to change but i know it's never going to go away at the same time well i didn't know what other schools were reaching out to them in in regard to a position i knew i liked what i saw when i watched him throw in person at our camp and then when i went down and saw him throw in the spring prior to his senior year you know so it was pretty evident to me we were going to recruit him as a quarterback there's no place i'd rather be looking back at it now obviously at the time i might have been frustrated with a couple of schools that didn't think i would be you know a good fit for their program you know when it really came down to it i don't think that playing in bowl games was something that i wanted to do i wanted the expectation to be playing for a national championship you know winning conference championships you know that's the expectation here nothing's changed so i'm really thankful for where i am and the decision i made oh man the first time that i saw him throw the ball deep it was at target field it was his first touchdown pass to phoenix sproles he threw this ball over the top in a deep ball and it looked effortless the first drive of the game lance goes back to pass phoenix sproles running a fly down the left side and trade us through this most perfect high arcing pass phoenix made an unbelievable over the shoulder catch but it was put where only phoenix was going to catch it actually does not explain it's just really cool how he just takes his time knows where guys are going to be on defense and for us that's really big on offense because that's how teams win and lose games is turnovers and when you have a quarterback that doesn't throw a single interception all year you're going to be in good shape so whatever he's doing keep it up because it's working the play to me where you really saw him shine and you saw his toughness and just how special he was was against uc davis on a touchdown run he tucked it and ran and this uc davis defender came up a very good tackler the trade lord his shoulder boom tried to just demolish the cornerback and ran through him like he was nothing and i turned to the guy next to me and i was calling the game we just kind of gave each other this look like wow this kid's a redshirt freshman the other play uh was the deep ball to christian watson in the youngstown state game at youngstown it was a cold night it was a miserable night and he threw this deep ball that was just a perfect spiral and christian watson right in stride it was a big long touchdown pass running over a guy in the run game it's just the whole package that he has all right there's another example here we go here's another quarterback that ndsu has found even the other quarterbacks when they were younger i think he's more advanced as a freshman than they were as far as the preparation and the mental side of it i guess the best thing i could say was i'm at the right place at the right time you know because i've had good players and no question about we recruited well and when i say that it's not my quarterback it's our quarterback and we're very proud of that [Music] my name is angie lance i have a husband carlton and two sons tran bryce we live in marshall minnesota near city is about 90 miles and that'd be sioux falls our community is extremely supportive specifically when you talk about football our varsity team gets to play out at the college facility at smsu's facility they have a beautiful turf field beautiful stadium great place to have the opportunity to play it's a place where people gather in the fall i don't know if i realized that trey was going to be as successful as he has been we are very realistic with the kids and so trey was a freshman in high school and we had overheard him telling people that he would like to play a division one sport someday and i may not have played a lot of sports but i've been around to sports my whole life i really try to be supportive and only talk about the positives but when i heard this i really felt like it was our job as parents to sit down and talk with him about that goal and and have a kind of a reality check because if it's a goal tray there is going to be hard work to be done and a price to pay and a lot of sacrifices to make and it starts now as a dad i wasn't comfortable at the time you know the injury things and stuff like that concussions and stuff you know it was kind of a a holistic approach of looking at you know hey you don't know you know maybe baseball or you don't know these other sports we just kind of role played like in three years from now when you're a junior that's when you're going to be starting to see people your age getting these phone calls where they're being offered a division one scholarship you know how are you going to feel if that's not you and if you're if that's if it's not you and you're okay with that that's your dream not mine i know you're going to be successful with whatever you choose to do so i'd say the biggest thing that my parents emphasized was just what my goals were you know i had to write them down things like that and then also you know as far as achieving those goals you know they made sure i was doing what was necessary you know not kind of just going through the motions at practice things like that you know people don't reach their goals by just doing them very minimal compete compete compete compete you have to have that that mindset in there uh all the time and i think that's what um you know the biggest thing that i've tried to instill in in both my boys yeah my dad played football at southwest minnesota state back home in marshall minnesota got invited to the nfl combine played with the houston oilers at the time for a year and then played with the saskatchewan rough riders and the cfo and then with the london monarchs in the world league and he actually played corner which is very different mindset than quarterback so it's very different for me my dad was probably the biggest influence on me football wise and just competitiveness my impact on trey is as far as you know coming from a defensive standpoint is that i he knows what i would look for so as a quarterback trey understands that you know what what a defensive back stance means what kind of leverage does he have does he have inside leverage you know is there any tells that he gives um taking care of the ball you know is this guy a heavy hitter or is he fake tough you know there are certain guys that you know how to set a guy up even when you're running the ball uh you're running the ball you give them this you make them come to ground zero now you can now you can you know blow them up as a family we're definitely a competition family so me and trey have definitely had those typical brother backyard fights those brawls coming from my dad as a defensive back and me and my brother's receiver and quarter quarterback i think it all kind of works out perfectly as a perfect kind of blend because we're all teaching each other different things and we're all learning from each other so it kind of benefits all of us they are super competitive they both like to win and neither of them will take it easy on the other no matter the circumstance but they also are very good brothers when it doesn't come to competing against each other yeah you know treya bryce um unfortunately we're all i tell them all the time and i get mad at him i said if you guys weren't just like me i would be just irate all the time but they're i mean i we we're just we're just uh it's hard for us all to play games together because it is it is very competitive yeah me and my brother are still i mean he's probably one of the toughest competitors uh to this day that i know i'll never admit that i lose to him anything but he's he's starting to grow up a little bit so he's starting to catch me i'll give him that but you know we're really close i think you know we talk every single day whether it's just about a game a practice or just you know how it's going see facetimes with me during school i have to tell them sometimes i'm in class tray i can't facetime you at all times he gets him kind of mad at me sometimes for that but just hard being away from him for so long at times but yeah he was a dynamic quarterback in high school the film doesn't lie if you looked at the film there is no if ands or buts could he play safety absolutely but at safety i told him i said your skill your skill set at safety is above average your skill set at quarterback is five star is excellent i'm terry bauman i'm the head football coach at marshall high school about 800 850 students and we're class 4a in minnesota we've been undefeated at home since 2014. we share a field with southwest minnesota state division two school in town so a very strong football score kids love to play football they're passionate about what they do and they look forward to it all the time we let our players go whatever position they wanted and trey came up to me and said he wanted to try quarterback a little bit and i'm like okay he's probably going to be a running back for us and then as we saw him play quarterback of course you know the skills obviously came to the top and then his leadership was fantastic even as a an eighth grader and i remember coming home and and my wife asked me on what he's going to be like i said trey's going to be a special player i didn't know at the time he's going to be a quarterback for us but but we knew he was going to be a special player then 9th grade he played his freshman year and shared the quarterback spot and then as a sophomore trey was was our jv person there and and uh came out and uh did a great job running our jv and then our varsity senior quarterback got uh hurt week eight and we were trailing in the game and trey actually came in and led us to two touchdowns he was just doing so good he was throwing these passes i was like i didn't know he could do that that was kind of the point where i was like okay like he's going to be something special for sure trey took over our starting quarterback took us through the tournaments and led us to state the next three years i didn't know if college football would be an option for me but you know i wasn't playing my sophomore year i was thinking man i got two more years uh you know i'm praying that this is going to be my opportunity and then obviously that came i went three and only playoffs made it to the state tournament um i think that was kind of when you know maybe recruiting was you know seemed realistic for me i i had a heart-to-heart with him and said hey you need to know your worth you need to know who you are you already got the height you're 6'3 you're 210 pounds you can project out 6'5 225 but you have to understand what you what you want to be and i think from that night on he was like yeah i'm quarterback and and that's it and so that kind of cleared up our picture of who actually was uh going to recruit him and you know kind of clear up his picture from there when the recruiting process started and he started to have some of the offers i i thought it was fantastic and exciting for me it was all about how i felt when we were in that one-on-one meeting with the coaches and we had an opportunity to do quite a few of those we had some some offers um ndsu is the one that stuck out the most and i i think actually recruited him for quarterback without any issue that's what they wanted for the other schools said yeah we want you to come here we want you to throw but we also want you to backpedal well when the other schools came in and talked to trey about being a linebacker defensive back we knew it's something we we didn't want to do we didn't want to go that direction so we were focusing on quarterback and you know ndsu had a great offer there when recruits come on campus and i get the opportunity to sit down with them and if they're one of those young men that we decide to offer i often talk about the bison effect that's about to happen meaning the minute they walk off the campus and and they make it public that they've received an offer from ndsu don't be surprised if fbs power five other fcs schools make an offer and you may not know exactly who this team is or or who the coach on the other end is there were some other fbs schools that were putting the full court press on him very late in the recruiting process before he signed in december and fortunately north dakota state was able to hang on to him i think the thing that separates us and will continue to do an unbelievable job is the relationship building that we try to create in our recruiting we're recruiting families we're recruiting young men that understand that this is going to be a huge part of who they end up being down the road they do a great job recruiting they look at all of our kids and and they give us an honest evaluation and and that's what we're looking at as high school coaches and i think the work habits they've developed and and sustained over the years is what keeps them on top and and i might not have understood all the words the kind of offense they run or you know what what how they'll use him but what i did know is that they told trey why they wanted him not why he should want them being here at north dakota state being able to come and meet guys like easton stick being able to learn from him for a year and then have the opportunity to compete as a redshirt freshman for the starting spot was probably the biggest thing that attracted me here i kind of got to shadow easton for the rest of the year which is a huge blessing for me just being able to really just literally copy everything he does whenever he was down here and i didn't have class i was down here with him the maturity that he had and the experience obviously was was incredible i went to 49 games doesn't just happen you know it'd be easy to say you know we don't want this next guy to be as successful as i was but it hasn't been that way every quarterback that's left has tried to prepare the next guy to take over and be ready to lead the program to lead the offense to be the guy that can continue this tremendous run and it's worked out that way so well that mentorship has been a big part of why all these quarterbacks have had so much success [Music] had we written a story or written a script for the season we never could have written dared we never would have dared wright how it turned out you know we knew there was going to be a lot of differences from the year before new coach new quarterback eason fcs leader and wins we're going to replace him with a freshman quarterback what's what's that going to be like personally in college i want to have a shot at a national championship and i think the playoff system is great for that for teams that you know maybe people don't think have a chance people don't think are good enough you know they really get that opportunity rather than just you know playing in a bowl game but fcs football is good football and anyone that says otherwise you should check us out on saturdays [Music] nickel state i it was my touchdown but i got a credit tray on this one it was a sweep jet sweep and trail was actually my lead blocker and yeah it was actually a key block for me um though i believe he was a linebacker sorry blocked him through his head in him a little bit uh god got just enough of him for me to run down 50 yards of scores montana state playoff game his throw to christian watson trey made a great read saw the how the safeties were playing flew deep to christian christian caught it and outran everyone for a touchdown and that was just his pocket presence he was just sitting in the pocket read the safety saw the safety was down flew it over his head touched down so you can trust people he can block you can throw in the pocket um what else oh speed i guess you can run a little bit our offense was kind of stagnant in the second half of the national championship game and trey we ran a pass play trey drops back blocking look up trey's got the first down pretty soon he's in the end zone i think a lot of people sampled fcs football in the in frisco this year and trey was fantastic but as far as the no interceptions i think it's like a perfect game in baseball it's probably even more impressive than that there's been around 20 of those in the history of baseball i don't recall ever seeing a quarterback not have an interception all year his ability to just know okay when here's where we get greedy here's where we don't get greedy that's what separates him from so many other freshmen and i think ultimately that's why he had so much success not turning the football over he read the right things almost every time and he didn't try to force things and that's very uncommon for a young quarterback to make those decisions in 2019 trey won the jerry rice award which is the freshman of the year for the fcs that award just really resonated with me you know personally just because of the you know jerry rice of who he was and you know especially my generation you know to have his name you know attached to that award was uh just phenomenal he also won the walter payton award which is the best offensive player in the fcs as a freshman nobody has ever accomplished what he's accomplished at this level of football it's never happened before they've never had a walter payton award winner as a quarterback as a freshman in fcs before [Music] we're excited and happy for trey i won't say i'm surprised by a success you know maybe the 28 touchdowns zero interceptions is an amazing stat but but uh we knew he was going to be successful he's just driven as a person and as an athlete and his character always comes to the top he respects the the heck out of us and we respect the heck out of him so he's a special talent i think more importantly than that he's a really awesome human being too he's been a great kid to get to know what do you do now to get this guy better his team goes 16-0 he doesn't throw an interception what are you going to do next year trey [Music] there's a lot of expectations i think trey can handle it i'm not sure i can i think it's every kid's dream that's playing you know college football especially at the division one level to play in the nfl one day i've been able to just know that we didn't let those guys down that played before us uh you know we wanted to play to impress those guys honestly all of them were winners every single one of these kids they brought in had so many of the integral parts of leadership away from the field they understood what it took to get the rest of their teammates to follow them they've had great friends they've had great experiences they got an education and i haven't even talked yet about winning football games he's been talking about this his whole life he's always wanted to play specifically college football [Music] i'm just to see him playing at this level and keeping the ndsu tradition going and definitely not disappointing is something i'm so proud of 15 years down the line 20 years down the line you look back and go wow that was pretty good wasn't it that was pretty good [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] you

Channel: The Analyst

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Rating: 4.9139786 out of 5

Keywords: american football, fcs, trey lance, north dakota state, quarterback, nfl, nfldraft, nfldraft2021, nds, qb

Id: dw6Q1WzRi3o

Length: 44min 50sec (2690 seconds)

Published: Fri Apr 23 2021