Logan Thomas never planned to be the face of anything. He didn't even want to be a quarterback.

'In the recruiting process, I was like, "Any school who offers me to be a quarterback, I'm not going there," says Thomas, who was ranked as the No. 3 tight end prospect in the nation by Scout.com. "I don't want to play quarterback. I want to play tight end or receiver."

'I never had the want-to," he says. 'I always wanted to catch the ball and run the ball. I guess at that point in time, I didn't want to have all the weight of the world on my shoulders."

They recruited him as an H-back. But then one night, Frank Beamer went to a Brookville game with assistant Bryan Stinespring and saw Thomas in action.

'I remember talking coming home, "I think this guy can be a quarterback," Beamer says. 'The way he takes control, the way he throws the football and so forth. When he got here, we looked at him more.

Bait-and-switch'
Logan Thomas doesn't use the phrase 'bait-and-switch" to describe his conversion to quarterback, but he doesn't deny it, either.

'When you look at it that way, it kind of was," he says with a laugh.

It's all good now. But it wasn't so great the day before his first fall practice two years ago, when the coaches told him they wanted to try him at QB.

'I was like, "What?" Logan recalls.