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Have a good morning,

welcome to university.

Yeah. Thanks for turning down

all of those scholarships.

Good luck, boys.

272, coach.

You can't hit that.

Next. Burlsworth.

- The walk-on.

- Yes, sir.

Woo. How many Twinkies

did it take to do that?

They'll let anyone walk on.

I'm telling you.

330, Coach.

6'3 1/2", 330.

I had you at 6'2", 245.

You are Brandon Burlsworth, right?

Yes, sir. You said

I wasn't big enough last fall.

You telling me you put on 85 pounds

in one year?

That's gotta be

some kind of record.

I got a bit taller, too.

But that's God's doin', not mine.

Mm-hmm. Well, I don't know

whether to congratulate you,

or put you on life support.

50% body fat ain't exactly

what I had in mind.

Go get your gear, lunchbox.

Oh, hoo hoo.

Stay right where you are here.

Uh, Coach Ford's got a new policy, he's

gonna put a walk-on in every suite.

If scholarship players need anything,

you're gonna get it, okay?

And, uh, you two are rooming together.

Go pick out your lockers.

Burlsworth, those are

the scholarship lockers.

Walk-on's over that way.

Yo, coach, just tell him

there's cupcakes in there.

- Large. Extra, extra large.

- With icing.

Ooh, that boy's big.

Extra large. Extra large.

Come on, stretch it out, boys!

Stretch it now

and carry off the field later.

- Up!

- Coach?

I want you to figure out

which one of these linemen

are the oreo-nibbling,

ningy-tendo playing ones,

and which one of them just getting

the gravy off mom's cooking.

- All right?

- Yeah, I got you.

- Come on.

- Fast feet, fast feet, fast feet!

Come on, fast feet. That's half speed,

gentlemen. I need fast feet.

Pick it up, boys, pick it up!

This is not good enough.

Turd.

Come on, Burlsworth. You're up.

Ready to go to school, son? Woo!

Get set!

Come on, fatty, let's go!

Come on! You can walk, can't you?

You obviously can't hit a sled.

Bring it up, bring it up, bring it up.

Go!

Well, he wants it more than any of them.

Yeah, he's trying, all right.

He just might make it.

Make it? I just hope he lives.

Oh!

When are you gonna learn,

it is not about strength

and size, it is about footwork.

Skills.

You know, everybody thinks

that the backs and the receivers

are the skilled players. Uh-uh.

What they got is God-given talent.

You can't teach that.

A skill is something that you learn.

And that's why linemen

are the real skilled players,

because everything that you do,

is something that you learned.

Burlsworth, barn, bam, barn!

And your hands inside.

Hit 'em on the steering wheel,

drive that mat.

Coach?

Bring it back, bring it back.

Y'all keep working.

Why are you wasting your time

working with that kid?

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