LEXINGTON, Ky. – Before running out of the Ben Hill Griffin Stadium tunnel for the first time and hearing the roar of nearly 90,000 people who came to see him being torn apart by alligators in the swamp, Will Levis checked her phone. KentuckyThe stellar quarterback got a message from his mom, Beth. A former American football player at Yale, she was well aware of the weight of this moment, the magnitude of the stakes, as her son and her team both aimed to validate an unprecedented summer of hype. You may think about it this way and be paralyzed by the pressure, or you may step back and mark it as the main goal that it was, win or lose. Beth Levis, after watching her son go from being a three-year backup to Penn State to become the face of a nationally classified SEC program, a probable NFL choice of draft and required commercial pitcher, obviously he chose the latter.
“Take a moment to think back to one year, two years,” she wrote before the Kentucky game against Florida on September 1. 10. “I know you always trusted you would get to where you are, but wow, here you are now. Everything from now on is extra, it’s sauce. So enjoy it, kiss it and smile. Everything you put into it, all the preparation, let it guide you and take over and flow in a natural state, because you have done all the work. Now have fun.
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