He was Burston with talent.
Had Cameron Burston brought those talents to the University of New Mexico as originally planned, and not to Tarleton State University, what might have happened?
Normally, I try to stay away from what-ifs. This one, though, caught my fancy this week.
Burston, I wrote in April 2017, just might be the guy University of New Mexico football had never had under then-head coach Bob Davie – hadn’t had, truly, since Graham Leigh in the late 1990s: a quarterback who could pass or run with equal effectiveness.
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Other teams in the Mountain West Conference had found such people: Brett Smith and Josh Allen (whatever happened to him?) at Wyoming, Cody Fajardo at Nevada, Grant Hedrick at Boise State, others with similar run-pass skills. The Lobos, though, had never found that guy.