BLACKSBURG, Va. — Long before Tyson Flowers became one of the veteran voices inside Virginia Tech’s locker room, he was simply a coach’s son.
From middle school through high school, Flowers played for his father in Fort Worth, Texas, just outside of Dallas, an experience that gave him an unusually close look at football through two different lenses. At home, he was a son. On the field, he was another player expected to meet the same standards as everyone else.
Sometimes, that path was not especially comfortable. Flowers recalled one of his earliest fall camps, where his father finally reached a breaking point with his constant questions…