COLLEGE STATION, Texas – A freshman at Texas A&M is now $50,000 richer after nailing a field goal.
Lucas Dolibois, a first-year business major and lifelong Aggies fan, was picked out of a lottery to take part in ESPN’s ‘College GameDay’ pre-show.
A segment in the show includes analyst Pat McAfee, a former kicker with the Indianapolis Colts, offering up big time cash if someone in the crowd can make a field goal.
Dolibois did just that.
The Houston native played soccer at Bellaire High School, but never had a more important kick in his life.
“My hands are like, shaking,” he told KPRC 2′s Gage Goulding. “I was more nervous when I got selected than when I was taking the kick.”
Pat McAfee: “Now we got Lucas Doliboi here, who’s a freshman high school soccer player. Have you ever said anything terrible about a kicker before?”
Lucas Doliboi: “Horrible. Like kicking is so easy.”
Pat McAfee: “Why is that? Because you’re a high school soccer player.”
Lucas Doliboi: “Just like I could. I keep thinking I can make this. I can make this. I could go out right now [and] make a 45-yarder.”
It was big-time trash talk on national TV, the biggest stage for any kicker.
Pat McAfee: “All right, Lucas. Any final words before you shank one into somebody’s face?”
Lucas Doliboi: “Beat the hell out of Notre Dame.”
His kick... Well, it came up short.
But Aggieland wasn’t letting that go. And neither was Pat McAfee.
“This one will be for $50,000,” McAfee said after crowds chated ‘One more time!’
Lucas got one more shot, double or nothing, and he NAILED it.
“I’m still, like, kind of on the high from it,” Dolibois said. “It’s it’s still crazy. Like, I’ll still have people come up to me and ask me, ‘Hey, are you the kicker?’ I’m like, ‘Yeah, that’s me.’”
Now with $50,000 hanging around in his bank account, the freshman has a plan with the money, and it’s not for college.
“I think of what my family and I decided on because we already have college kind of budgeted out,” he said. “Which I’m really blessed to have been able to do. I think what we’re going to do is we’re going to put a lot of the money into a retirement or an investment fund and just kind of let the money grow over time.”
As for his future goals in life, this couldn’t be a better start to his college career.
Dolibois says he wants to work in the front office of a professional sports team.
“I’m hoping that maybe I can parlay some of that into an internship or something at ESPN or something of the sorts, because that would really help me jumpstart that dream to becoming a sports business man and whatnot,” he said.