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Jeremy Hanson could have had a college football scholarship. He turned down the offer of a full scholarship to NCAA Division II university Fort Lewis in favor of academic scholarships and grants which will pay most of his expenses over the next four years at the University of Redlands.

“Redlands is a Tier 1 school academically,” Hanson said.

Redlands is an NCAA Division III school and thus does not offer athletic scholarships. Because Division III does not have athletic scholarships, no official letters of intent are signed. Hanson, however, gave a verbal commitment to Redlands to con...