Sandie Cox

[DKelly 🇺🇸🦅��🇸 @1Nicdar]

130 schools said no.
He led the losingest program in college football history to a national championship anyway.
Fernando Mendoza was a 2-star recruit from Miami.

He tried to walk on at his hometown school. They passed.
So did FIU.
So did FAU.
So did everyone else.

At 17, he was sitting in his bedroom, crying over a silent recruiting inbox—after driving to 18 camps with his dad and sending highlights to more than 100 programs.
Not one FBS offer.
His only option? Yale. No scholarship. No NFL path.

Everyone told him to be “realistic.��
“Know your place.”
“Be grateful.”
He didn’t listen.
Because Mendoza understood something most people miss:
The worst outcome isn’t failing.
It’s never getting the chance to try.

Two weeks before signing day in 2022, his phone rang.
Cal needed a body. One offer. Out of 134 schools.
He took it.
He arrived as the third-string quarterback.
Spent a year on the scout team.
Lost his first four starts.
Got sacked 41 times behind a broken offensive line.

Still got up. Every time.
Then Cal brought in a transfer instead of building around him.
So Mendoza left the only school that had ever said yes.
He transferred to Indiana—the losingest program in college football history.

People laughed.
“Career suicide.”
“Graveyard program.”
“Nobody wins there.”
One coach told him something different:
“I’m going to make you the best Fernando Mendoza possible.”
That was enough.
Mendoza wasn’t just playing for football.
His mother has battled multiple sclerosis for 18 years.

Before every snap, he thought of her.
“My mother is my why.”
Indiana went 16–0.
Beat six Top-10 teams.
Won their first Big Ten title since 1945.
Mendoza threw 41 touchdowns.
Won the Heisman—first in school history.
First Cuban-American to ever do it.

Then came the title game.
Miami. Near his hometown.
Fourth-and-4. Season on the line.
Quarterback draw.
The kid 134 schools rejected spun through defenders and dove into the end zone.

Game over.
Indiana—national champions.
The losingest program became the best team in America.
All because a 17-year-old refused to believe “no” was the end.

Rankings don’t decide your ceiling.
Gatekeepers don’t write your ending.
Being overlooked isn’t a verdict—it’s a starting point.

Sometimes all you need is one shot…
and the courage to bet on yourself when nobody else will.
Don’t quit.

Credit: Barclay Mullins

[Sandie Cox @SandieDCox]

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[Sandie Cox @SandieDCox]

@LawrenceBJones3 Happy Birthday LJ!

[The Figen @TheFigen_]

We all need friends like that.

[ACA Collegiate Bass @CollegiateBass]

Hunter from Blue Mountain Christian won Day 1 Session 2 presented by @MillerTechX at the @BassProShops Big Bass Bash presented by @BerkleyFishing with 6.63 lbs.

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[ACA Collegiate Bass @CollegiateBass]

Staying comfortable in the @AftcoFishing rain gear and catching bass!

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[Gunther Eagleman™ @GuntherEagleman]

BREAKING: AOC just took to the House floor to defend her No vote on the Resolution honoring the life of Charlie Kirk.

This is going to make your blood boil.

AOC: "We should be clear about who Charlie Kirk was... His rhetoric and beliefs were ignorant, uneducated, and sought to disenfranchise millions of Americans."

"Far from the quote working tirelessly to promote unity, unquote, asserted by the majority in this resolution."

AOC is a VILE and DISGUSTING woman who just used Congress to push the SAME RHETORIC that incites violence against her political opposition.

She does NOT belong in the halls of Congress.

She can leave her supposed "prayers" at the front door, we know who you really are @AOC.

[Megan Basham @megbasham]

Tonight’s wisdom from my 16-year-old, about finding her future husband:

“I really want a Charlie. I guess that means I better make sure I’m an Erika.”

[ACA Collegiate Bass @CollegiateBass]

Read about teams ranked 6-15 in the ACA's fifth annual Pre-Season Poll for the @BassProShops School of the Year presented by @Abu_Garcia.

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[Sassafrass84 @Sassafrass_84]

Many of us were pondering why the death of Charlie Kirk has affected us so deeply?

And then I read a statement, and it sucker punched me. A very powerful statement for Charlie.

"The flesh didn’t know him, but the soul did."

That hit me so hard. I feel this on every level.

We are in another spiritual awakening.

[Benny Johnson @bennyjohnson]

We wept bitterly putting this together...

Charlie Kirk did not fear death. Charlie told us what his legacy would be. Charlie's greatest passion was his faith in Jesus Christ.

Just hours before he was assassinated, Charlie stood on stage, openly proclaiming his love for Jesus Christ. Unafraid, unwavering, and full of conviction. He lived every moment guided by that faith, and in the end, he was taken home by his Savior.

Charlie is a true Christian martyr.

His example is not just inspiring, it is a call to all of us. To stand firm in our beliefs, to shine light into darkness, speak truth and to live boldly in our faith. Charlie showed us what it means to live, and die, with purpose.

This is the legacy he leaves...

[Charlie Kirk @charliekirk11]

Jesus defeated death so you can live.

[ACA Collegiate Bass @CollegiateBass]

Blake and John from Top 25 ranked Blue Mountain Christian earned a new Power-Pole for claiming Overall Big Bass honors at the Pickwick Slam earlier this year.

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[Charlie Kirk @charliekirk11]

Hulk Hogan left us with many memories, but his greatest legacy is that 18 months ago, he and his wife were baptized and gave their lives to Jesus Christ:

“Total surrender and dedication to Jesus is the greatest day of my life. No worries, no hate, no judgment… only love.”

[TMK @themagaking]

The same people calling the UFC at
the White House embarrassing were perfectly fine with drag queens flaunting their junk and spreading their butt cheeks in front of little children on the White House lawn.

[Sandie Cox @SandieDCox]

@catturd2 My husband had a stroke at 54 years old after having the vaccine and then the virus. I’m 💯 certain this was the cause!

[Eric Daugherty @EricLDaugh]

🚨 BREAKING: SecDef Pete Hegseth stares right at the press and goes scorched earth, spelling out their insanity. I could watch this all day.

"You, and I mean specifically YOU, the press, you cheer against Trump so hard, it's in your DNA and in your blood to cheer against Trump, because you want him not to be successful so bad, you have to cheer against the efficacy of these strikes. You have to hope maybe they weren't effective."

"Maybe the way the Trump administration is representative isn't true. So let's take half truths, spun information, leaked information, and then spin it, spin it in every way we can to try to cause doubt and manipulate the mind, the public mind, over whether or not our brave pilots were successful."

"How many stories have been written about how hard it is to, I don't know, fly a plane for 36 hours? Has MSNBC done that story? Has Fox? Have we done the story how hard that is?"

"There are so many aspects of what our brave men and women did that because of the hatred of this press corps are undermined because people are trying to leak and spin that it wasn't successful. It's irresponsible."

"You're undermining the success of incredible B-2 pilots and incredible F-35 pilots and incredible refuelers and incredible air defenders who accomplished their mission."

"How about we talk about how special America is, that only we have these capabilities? I think it's too much to ask, unfortunately, for the fake news. So we're used to that."

[Rapid Response 47 @RapidResponse47]

"On Sunday, when those jets returned to Whiteman, their families were there — flags flying and tears flowing," says Gen. Dan "Razin" Caine.

"One commander told me this is a moment in the lives of our families that they will never forget." 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸

[Sarah Huckabee Sanders @SarahHuckabee]

My dad is amazing! I love you and I’m proud of you!

[Sandie Cox @SandieDCox]

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