CHICAGO — Fresh off making one of the most consequential decisions of his life, Dante Moore needed some space.
At 20 years old, the quarterback had just spurned the chance to be a high draft pick in the NFL, with the potential to have one of the 32 franchises built around him, for another year of college football. His head coach, Dan Lanning, who had been in the dark about the decision, jumped on a desk and screamed to celebrate when Moore officially made the announcement on SportsCenter in January. Moore’s phone predictably exploded with messages, comments and opinions from all across the world. He was having none of it.
