Most had one message: He should use his marketing expertise on fundraising.

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Welch admitted that while he may have tired of his message, whenever he had something important to deliver he trained himself to realize that there was at least one person in the audience who had not heard the message previously and needed to hear it now.

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At one point, his mother checked his phone and saw he had a missed message.

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Mickey Marotti, the strength coach at Ohio State and one of Tebow's closest friends, said that he had sent him a text message of support Monday morning.

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