FSU Football player = Rhodes Scholar?
Posted: Thu Nov 20, 2008 11:46 amhttp://sports.espn.go.com/ncf/news/story?id=3713931
a positive "off the field" story about a college athlete
a positive "off the field" story about a college athlete
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Posted: Thu Nov 20, 2008 11:46 amPosted: Thu Nov 20, 2008 11:59 amthey played an interview with him during their game last saturday, sharp guy
Posted: Thu Nov 20, 2008 12:01 pmi saw that interview with him on saturday. VERY sharp kid. puts the student in student-athlete. it's nice to see kids like this excel on the field and in the classroom.
another outstanding student is the QB for Vandy.
another outstanding student is the QB for Vandy.
Posted: Thu Nov 20, 2008 12:49 pmthey arent all thugs out there at FSU
Posted: Thu Nov 20, 2008 12:59 pmThe QB quoted in the story, Christian Ponder, went to Colleyville Heritage. Ponder's dad was a DL for the Seminoles in the early 1980s.
FSU does need the off-the-field good news. Hope the kid will be awarded one.
FSU does need the off-the-field good news. Hope the kid will be awarded one.
Posted: Thu Nov 20, 2008 2:29 pmMyron graduated at the top of his high school class, if I am not mistaken.
And I might be wrong, but I think Chad Pennington was up for the same thing when he was at Marshall, but didn't get accepted.
And I might be wrong, but I think Chad Pennington was up for the same thing when he was at Marshall, but didn't get accepted.
Posted: Sat Nov 22, 2008 9:12 pmI think I just heard during the FSU-Maryland telecast that he got it.
Posted: Sat Nov 22, 2008 9:19 pmGeorge S. Patton wrote:I think I just heard during the FSU-Maryland telecast that he got it.
pretty sure they havent done it yet. THe yale QB was supposedly going to miss the Harvard-Yale game for his interview so they wouldnt have announced them yet, would they?
Posted: Sat Nov 22, 2008 9:31 pmToday was only the interview
Posted: Sat Nov 22, 2008 9:34 pmProbably so. Just heard Ed Cunningham point that "he got his rhodes scholarship''. They made a big deal of it because he appeared late in the second quarter for the first time in the game because he came in from the interview.
Again, I caught the tail end of it.
Again, I caught the tail end of it.
Posted: Sat Nov 22, 2008 9:36 pmGeorge S. Patton wrote:Probably so. Just heard Ed Cunningham point that "he got his rhodes scholarship''. They made a big deal of it because he appeared late in the second quarter for the first time in the game because he came in from the interview.
Again, I caught the tail end of it.
yeah, i think he was just late bc of the interview. Hope he gets it though, SHARP guy
Posted: Sun Nov 23, 2008 12:14 amPosted: Sun Nov 23, 2008 10:05 amI wonder who provided the private plane for him to get to the game? Could be an NCAA violation.
Posted: Sun Nov 23, 2008 10:54 ammrydel wrote:I wonder who provided the private plane for him to get to the game? Could be an NCAA violation.
FSU approached and received a waiver from the NCAA.
Remember they call themselves the National Collegiate Athletic Association
and FSU doesn't answer to the name SMU
Posted: Sun Nov 23, 2008 1:12 pmRednBlue11 wrote:http://sports.espn.go.com/ncf/news/story?id=3719726
he got it
OK, then I did hear it right. What a great day for him including the Seminoles impressive win.