The incredible story of college football's first -- and only -- eighth-year senior

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Some of his youngest teammates at ETSU were in the fifth grade when he first started playing college football at Temple in 2014. He has endured more surgeries than he cares to count, accumulated two degrees and is closing in on a third (his MBA), and as recently as the spring of 2020 was a full-fledged member of the workforce as a credit union's marketing coordinator.

To the best of the NCAA's knowledge, Folks is not only the first football player but the first college athlete in any sport to have an eighth year of eligibility. That's right -- eight -- as in two presidential terms and two years shy of a decade.

"Holy hell, he's still playing," marveled Satterfield, now the offensive coordinator at South Carolina. "It's not like he's at Notre Dame, either, where he's getting all the perks and benefits of being at a Power 5 school. You're at ETSU and you get on a bus and ride eight hours to The Citadel to play a game. So he ain't doing it for anything other than the love of the game, which is really cool."


"But then again, I don't really have any debt, so it might balance out," he said. "This experience has been something I couldn't get anywhere else. I want to have the same effect on somebody else's life that all these coaches had on my life.