Whicker: A student-athlete, in that order, waits for his chance

At some colleges, you play football. At others, football plays you.
Zachary Van Bennekum, of West Ranch High, probably wouldn’t be packing up his heavy sweaters to attend Carnegie Mellon University, in Pittsburgh, if it weren’t for the game he loves.
He will watch videos and lift weights and practice just like they do at Penn State or Pittsburgh, if not quite as often.
But he will treat football in context, as an extracurricular activity, not the hub of all human experience. There wa