Camellia Bowl: Garrett’s Past Helps Him Build Toward The Future With Georgia Southern

By Tim Gayle, Raycom Media Camellia Bowl Writer

Monteo Garrett used to have visions of himself as a professional football player. But for nearly four years, he couldn’t even get on the field as a college football player.

“There were plenty of lonely nights where I sat and talked to my mother and cried and cried and cried,” Garrett recalled. “I talked to my high school coach about how I want to give this up. I talked to my father. There were plenty of people still behind me and they always said, whenever it’s raining, there is always a sun somewhere still shining. That’s something that always stuck with me.”

Garrett’s story is one of accomplishment and heartache, misplaced priorities and a second chance, of a player who rarely thought about anything other than football who transformed into one that may be suiting up for his final game in the Raycom Media Camellia Bowl yet, isn’t thinking about personal accomplishments.

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