"Harvard basically said that this is all we can do for you. My parents make just enough to make tuition possible, and as it is, it's a big chunk of what my parents make," he says. "We have to make adjustments. It was different, feeling as though I was treated like any other student."

With signing deadlines quickly approaching. Sprinkle finally came to a decision.

"I had signed the letter of intent to go to Tulane, and I went all the way down to post office to mail it. But once I got down to the post office, I thought, 'I can't do this.'"

Sprinkle called his parents, who met him halfway home from the post office to discuss it with him.

"I just decided that I wanted to come here," Sprinkle says.

Sprinkle says that recruiting was an eye-opening process.

"It's a business. Even though coaches recruiting you may act like their you're their best friend, it's a business," Sprinkle says. "Even though that coach could be the nicest guy in the world, he could be gone the next year, and where will you be then?"

"You have to focus on the school. If you can find a situation where you want to go to that school and you want to play football for that school, you've got the best of both worlds," he says. "But if you can't, remember that something could always happen where you couldn't or didn't want to play anymore, and make sure you want to go that school.