07-30-2022, 10:22 PM
(This post was last modified: 08-02-2022, 07:33 AM by Crunk. Edited 1 time in total.)
It's 5am, the sun is just beginning to rise. Tank McGibbons has been up for an hour already, doing his morning chores around the family farm. He's already got the cows out into the pasture, and the barn mucked out. Now he has to feed the chickens and hook up the tractor for the field work.
All this hard work has prepared Tank for life in the trenches, he's been pushing large animals and machinery around from the time he could walk. "It's definitely tough, but rewarding" Tank tells us, "I can't imagine doing it any other way. It's all I have known."
In the small amount of downtime he has, Tank makes sure to get his workout in. Some days it's agility and footwork drills, other days he focuses on explosive power. There is a small side yard on the farm filled with various pieces of homemade workout equipment. Tank demonstrates some of his creations for us, that he credits for making him the player that he is. While they have certainly had something to do with it, it also likely has something to do with standing 6'3" and weighing in at close to 310 pounds.
When asked where he hopes to end up following the ISFL draft, Tank just laughed. "Man, I'm just hoping to make it. Nevermind worrying about where I end up. I'll do what I have always done, which is roll up my sleeves and get to work." It certainly seems that our friend Tank is no stranger to work.
Inside the quaint farm house, made to seem downright tiny compared to the frame of Tank, his room is filled with various trophies and ribbons. In addition to his football prowess, Tank was a standout wrestler. "[My high school] Coach always insisted that we needed to wrestle in the off-season to stay conditioned" Tank explains, "Turns out i was pretty good at it."
Not only was Tank a great wrestler, he helped his highschool team three peat as state champions, moving from center his sophomore year to left tackle by his senior year. After a stellar highschool career, Tank attended Wabash College, a small D3 college in Crawfordsville, IN. This obviously piqued my interest. I was dying to ask why this player, who could clearly play with the best of them, chose to attend a D3 school, rather than one of the powerhouse D1 schools.
As if he could read my mind (although my face probably said it all) Tank explains: "You are probably wondering why I chose Wabash over a big school. The fact is I visited Wabash with a friend who's dad went there. He took us up for the Homecoming football game and I just fell in love with the place. As the time for choosing where I wanted to go started approaching, I couldn't get Wabash out of my mind. I was obsessed. So I went back and asked them if they thought I could play football there. And well the rest is history."
Tank is clearly understating his college career. He was a 4 year All American, and dominated the competition from his first day on campus. Now he has set his sights on the ISFL, and if history is any indication, Tank has a long promising career ahead of him.
All this hard work has prepared Tank for life in the trenches, he's been pushing large animals and machinery around from the time he could walk. "It's definitely tough, but rewarding" Tank tells us, "I can't imagine doing it any other way. It's all I have known."
In the small amount of downtime he has, Tank makes sure to get his workout in. Some days it's agility and footwork drills, other days he focuses on explosive power. There is a small side yard on the farm filled with various pieces of homemade workout equipment. Tank demonstrates some of his creations for us, that he credits for making him the player that he is. While they have certainly had something to do with it, it also likely has something to do with standing 6'3" and weighing in at close to 310 pounds.
When asked where he hopes to end up following the ISFL draft, Tank just laughed. "Man, I'm just hoping to make it. Nevermind worrying about where I end up. I'll do what I have always done, which is roll up my sleeves and get to work." It certainly seems that our friend Tank is no stranger to work.
Inside the quaint farm house, made to seem downright tiny compared to the frame of Tank, his room is filled with various trophies and ribbons. In addition to his football prowess, Tank was a standout wrestler. "[My high school] Coach always insisted that we needed to wrestle in the off-season to stay conditioned" Tank explains, "Turns out i was pretty good at it."
Not only was Tank a great wrestler, he helped his highschool team three peat as state champions, moving from center his sophomore year to left tackle by his senior year. After a stellar highschool career, Tank attended Wabash College, a small D3 college in Crawfordsville, IN. This obviously piqued my interest. I was dying to ask why this player, who could clearly play with the best of them, chose to attend a D3 school, rather than one of the powerhouse D1 schools.
As if he could read my mind (although my face probably said it all) Tank explains: "You are probably wondering why I chose Wabash over a big school. The fact is I visited Wabash with a friend who's dad went there. He took us up for the Homecoming football game and I just fell in love with the place. As the time for choosing where I wanted to go started approaching, I couldn't get Wabash out of my mind. I was obsessed. So I went back and asked them if they thought I could play football there. And well the rest is history."
Tank is clearly understating his college career. He was a 4 year All American, and dominated the competition from his first day on campus. Now he has set his sights on the ISFL, and if history is any indication, Tank has a long promising career ahead of him.