Just curious.

I grew up moving place to place, never stayed anywhere longer than four years. My family was mostly NFL types and I was a 5th generation Dallas Cowboys fan so that was pretty constant. I didn’t get into CFB until I was about 14, entering HS in Florida where I chose Bobby Bowden’s class act and the Florida St. Seminoles over Jimmy Johnson’s brash act and the Miami Hurricanes.

I rooted for FSU for four solid years and maintained my fandom of them when I left home for the USAF. But there were no real ties. I didn’t live there anymore, had lost touch with the pulse of the program, ran into very few other FSU fans as most ppl I ran into were NFL fans. Eight years later, most of which was in Europe where it’s all but impossible to keep up with a college team, I landed in Mountain Home. For the next six or seven years I kept minimal tabs on FSU while mostly following Dallas. I had totally lost touch with the program, I didn’t know who played there anymore for the most part, I knew things weren’t good for Bobby and the program was stuck in the doldrums. When a program gets stuck it loses relevancy, and when it loses relevancy it’s not talked about nationally, and when it’s not talked about nationally it is really really hard for out of region fans to stay connected.

By the time I moved into the National Guard I had really lost touch with CFB as a whole. The Guard was different though. Rather than being surrounded by people who weren’t from Idaho, didn’t want to be in Idaho, and were actively trying to get out of Idaho, I was surrounded by people who were born here or had moved here and wanted to stay…and EVERYONE was a fan of this small scale, small time, blue field bunch of would-be usurpers that I found utterly ridiculous. It took 2 years of near daily debate with some guys that know football pretty good for me to become convinced but once they turned the corner for me and I was able to start looking with unbiased eyes I saw a program that was built on all the things I loved about Bowden’s old FSU program. A high character place that defied the odds and could play with anyone. A team that was on the edge of innovation just like all three of the major Florida programs were at the time I started watching. Suddenly, I was connected again, CFB was relevant to me again, and I had a team to root for that was built on principals I could rally around. While kids at Florida St. were getting busted for check scams and booked for beating their girlfriends, Boise St. players were crunching film and keeping their grades up.

He’s 6’6" 315 now but he may have weighed more back in the day. Probably weighed less but sometimes guys slim down a bit in the NFL.

Kharyee Marshell was 192 lbs when he joined.
Jarrell Root was 225 lbs….
Shea McClellin was 228 lbs….
Nick Schlekeway was 230 lbs….
I couldn’t find anything on Winterswyk as he was a walk on but I’d imagine he was below Barret’s weight as he was playing safety in high school.

4-3, 3-4 end/backer