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In the narrow football sense, UTEP right guard Greg Long has beaten the odds to become a starter for the UTEP football team.
In a program that recruits the best and the most on the offensive line, with a coach in Sean Kugler who sets the highest of bars there, in the fourth game of Kugler's fourth season Long became his first-ever true freshman starter when he lined up at right guard against Southern Miss.
A little over a month after declaring him a future star, that future began to arrive for the 6-foot-4, 305-pound mauler out of Eastwood.