Florida State Seminoles: Offensive lineman Dillan Gibbons talks Notre Dame, FSU decision - a podcast by FSU football analysis, news and recruiting

Florida State offensive lineman Dillan Gibbons met with local media via Zoom on Wednesday. Here’s the full thing in audio version. “When I started my college career back in 2017, if you’d like me to get into that story and how I built that relationship I can at some point, but the bottom line is once I met him and built a connection with him, I made a very distinct decision in my life to engage with him. And not just have a one-off relationship. ...I want to do as much as I possibly could. You see, before the last couple months I wasn’t allowed to do anything among the lines of a GoFundMe or anything like that. So most of the things I gave him were my time, a connection, having a person to talk to. Once I started hearing things about Name and Likeness from major media sources probably a year ago, and I just started hearing that it could happen in my college career. So I mapped out a game plan at one of my strategic business classes at Notre Dame of how I could actually raise the money for his family. Initially it started as just trying to get him to the game. But as everyone has seen here, it’s blossomed into something else. It’s making a radical impact on him and his family’s life.” “It’s actually one of the main reasons why I did transfer to Florida State. See, having my family at games means the world to me. It costs my family a lot of money to get to South Bend every weekend for all the home games. We were lucky enough to have a house up there because my brother went to law school at Notre Dame. At the same time, it was financially pretty tough to get up there. Another part of it, too, is my grandpa had multiple open-heart surgeries the past four years. He can’t fly. It’s one of the things he’s been struggling with for six years now, so he’s never been able to see me play college football. Being closer to home for my last two seasons, I’ll be able to have the whole family there with my grandpa.”

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