“A lot of people are saying I didn’t have the grades, which isn’t true,” McCall said. “I had the grades to go anywhere. People like to say they know what happened and know how it is, and they don’t.”
He said Auburn and at least two other SEC schools didn’t have his Recreation and Sport Management major, so “in order to get in there I would have had to take pretty much a full-semester course load over the summer to get in,” McCall said. “. . . That wasn’t something that I wanted to do.”