Wyatt Rector shares journey to FSU as a walk-on QB (Episode 113)
On The Bench: An FSU football podcast network
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4.7 • 1.6K Ratings
🗓️ 5 May 2019
⏱️ 59 minutes
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Summary
Quarterback Wyatt Rector suffered a major injury and rejection on the recruiting trail in the past two years. But through disappointment, Rector has remained resilient and is now ready to walk-on at FSU. Rector sits down with On The Bench to share his journey.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, welcome to Knowles 24-7's On the Bench Podcast. This is Brendan Sonone and |
| 0:05.4 | going to have a different sort of podcast for you guys today, a different sort of format |
| 0:10.6 | to our normal traditional bantering back and forth. |
| 0:14.0 | It's just me for right now, but don't stop listening just because it's only just me. |
| 0:19.2 | There's going to be someone joining me in a minute here through the magic of editing and essentially what what we're going to do |
| 0:25.2 | today is is put a full interview that I did with with an FSU recruit, a Wyatt Rector. |
| 0:31.9 | He's a walk-on quarterback, a preferred walk-on slash Grayshir. He's got an interesting |
| 0:36.8 | status coming into Florida State in the next couple of weeks here and an interesting story to tell one of success and failure and hope and I think it's a really |
| 0:48.1 | cool personal interest story and I really appreciate that that why it was willing to sit down and talk for about 45 minutes and be vulnerable. |
| 0:55.0 | He's he's 19 years old he's experienced a lot of success as a football player and he's |
| 0:59.7 | experienced some some hardships too with with injuries and some let downs in the recruiting |
| 1:04.4 | process and things not going the way he wanted them to and that's kind of all |
| 1:07.9 | let him here to being able to go to Florida State and it's kind of a really cool |
| 1:14.7 | scenario for him as you're going to hear because he really lost hope for a while there and someone who's had a lot of success |
| 1:20.9 | to all of a sudden have a string of some failure or things not going the way they want them to is tough and to hear about his attitude and how he's continuing to kind of trying to work and have good things happen and open up for him. |
| 1:34.8 | It's cool. |
| 1:35.8 | So hopefully you guys enjoy it. |
| 1:36.9 | This is going to be again a different format to what we normally do. |
| 1:40.3 | We'll do our normal podcast later in the week as well. |
| 1:43.0 | There will be a story accompanying this podcast too as well in the next day or so, |
| 1:46.8 | but guys, this is something that we're trying to do more of and |
| 1:50.8 | you'll see that coming up in the future. |
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