Call it in the air: heads or tails.No, this coin flip didn't decide who would kick or receive, but rather which university a highly recruited high school football player would attend next year.
Ka'Lial Glaud, from Winslow, NJ, was torn between going to West Virginia and Rutgers. So torn, that he left it up to the flip of a coin to decide his future. Heads, he was headed to West Virginia. Tails, he was on his way to Rutgers. The coin landed on tails, and the star recruit's future was set, to remain in state and play his college football at Rutgers.
"I really didn't know until I flipped the coin," Glaud said at the news conference in his high school cafeteria. "It's the hardest decision I ever made in my life."
Glaud's high school coach Mike McBride said that he had never seen a player make a decision on a coin flip.
"I think it's a credit to all the schools involved with Ka'Lial that it was such a difficult decision for him," said McBride.
Glaud's high school principal, Glen Jackson, knew this was going to be a tough decision for him.
"I asked him 'Want to flip a coin?' And he said said 'Yes.' I didn't think he was serious. But he was serious."
You could say it's destiny, or maybe just chance.
Glaud left the press conference yesterday, still holding the quarter that decided his future as a football player.
"I'm going to keep this quarter," he said, smiling. "This might be a collector's item."
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