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Concordia Football Practice

Concordia University football practice in Ann Arbor, Michigan, on Wednesday, August 23, 2023. Christina Merrill | MLive.comChristina Merrill | MLive.com

David Cagle loved football. He wasn’t sure he was heading to college. He thought maybe he’d go straight to work after high school.

But a coach from Concordia University Ann Arbor recruited him out of Allen Park High School, convinced him that Concordia’s football program was “about making us young men into better men going forward,” said Cagle, a six-foot-one, 240-pound defensive end.

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