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Post by Deleted on Nov 6, 2008 22:19:44 GMT -6
Nice story about Myron Rolle, the Florida State safety who's also a pre-med student and a finalist for the rhodes scholar award. looks like he will miss an FSU game in a couple weeks for his interview, and may even pass up a possible first-round selection in the nfl draft for a chance to be a rhodes scholar. truly a student-athlete, and a special young man...also nice to see the university backing his decision. sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2008/writers/stewart_mandel/11/06/rolle/index.html
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Post by lionhart on Nov 6, 2008 22:46:16 GMT -6
was lucky enough to see him play and follow his career here in jersey. a remarkable young man who really has his priorities straight. he said from day one he was going to use football to get himself a top-notch education and become a doctor. this coming from a 16 or 17 year old kid.
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Post by pantherpride91 on Nov 7, 2008 6:27:35 GMT -6
What a great article, and from the sounds of it, an even better kid. I love football as much as the next guy, but I tell our kids all the time that football will end some day and the real world will begin. Whether it is after high school, college, or beyond your education will take you further than any football field will. Football is a game but life and education are for real...
Being around kids like this is what makes football so fun....
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Post by knighter on Nov 7, 2008 8:33:02 GMT -6
wow, what an awesome story.
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Post by ticobrown on Nov 7, 2008 10:01:27 GMT -6
GREAT, GREAT STORY!!!!! Very refreshing to see a kid being a STUDENT-Athlete for a change. I wish nothing but the best for this kid!!!
Heck, it sounds like we may be voting for him in about 30 years, lol.
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Post by bigdog2003 on Nov 7, 2008 10:37:43 GMT -6
It's to bad that young people do not look up to players like him instead of some of the clowns they do. He has great talent on and off the field. He is one of the best players in the country and one of the smartest as well. It just goes to show that if you work hard on and off the field you can be successful at whatever you want to do.
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Post by coachpoe on Nov 7, 2008 11:30:29 GMT -6
the best part of this story IMO is that the guy is a heck of a player. If it were somebody who didn't play as much, or wasn't a potential All-American that Myron is, the story would be equally impressive but the message wouldn't be as strong. This guy is one of the best players in the country, likely missing a game that could determine his team's shot at a conference title, but he's doing it for the right reasons. I mean this guy might turn down millions of dollars in the NFL draft to follow his dream on the highest stage. A great story, about a great young man who is a real role model.
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Post by stunna on Nov 7, 2008 12:01:38 GMT -6
great story
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Post by gunrun on Nov 7, 2008 13:12:28 GMT -6
Amazing. Pretty cool of FSU to support him, too.
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Post by novacane on Nov 7, 2008 13:36:37 GMT -6
That's great to hear!
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Post by Deleted on Nov 8, 2008 0:53:41 GMT -6
one of the cool things i read in one of the stories was one of his coaches telling myron rolle that he needed to apply the same kind of effort he put into his schoolwork into his football...not the other way around
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Post by Deleted on Nov 22, 2008 16:55:30 GMT -6
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Post by bigdog2003 on Nov 22, 2008 17:18:39 GMT -6
Congrats to this great student/ athlete. The ESPN story they have been showing is great. I think it is funny that his teammates let him decide who is right in agruments over most topics.
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Post by jgordon1 on Nov 22, 2008 19:23:53 GMT -6
anybody hear about the kid from Yale. same type story.. raised by relatives... gets into Yale and is interviewing to be a Rhodes scholar
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Post by fish on Nov 22, 2008 23:13:02 GMT -6
defines the term student-athlete
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Post by jlt on Nov 25, 2008 8:03:03 GMT -6
I heard about it over here in the UK.
Oxford University has a college football team and if he joins up and plays for fun then he would cause some waves in the league. Problem is my team is due to play Oxford after christmas. So I just hope he comes over here and studies, and nothing else.
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