FSU Football player = Rhodes Scholar?

by **expony18** » Thu Nov 20, 2008 11:46 am

http://sports.espn.go.com/ncf/news/story?id=3713931

a positive "off the field" story about a college athlete :shock:

by **Pony Soup** » Thu Nov 20, 2008 11:59 am

they played an interview with him during their game last saturday, sharp guy

by **Dutch** » Thu Nov 20, 2008 12:01 pm

i 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.

by **J.T.supporta** » Thu Nov 20, 2008 12:49 pm

they arent all thugs out there at FSU

by **George S. Patton** » Thu Nov 20, 2008 12:59 pm

The 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.

by **Come and Take It** » Thu Nov 20, 2008 2:29 pm

Myron 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.

by **George S. Patton** » Sat Nov 22, 2008 9:12 pm

I think I just heard during the FSU-Maryland telecast that he got it.

by **Pony Soup** » Sat Nov 22, 2008 9:19 pm

George 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?

by **smupony94** » Sat Nov 22, 2008 9:31 pm

Today was only the interview

by **George S. Patton** » Sat Nov 22, 2008 9:34 pm

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.

by **Pony Soup** » Sat Nov 22, 2008 9:36 pm

George 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

by **RednBlue11** » Sun Nov 23, 2008 12:14 am

http://sports.espn.go.com/ncf/news/story?id=3719726

he got it

by **mrydel** » Sun Nov 23, 2008 10:05 am

I wonder who provided the private plane for him to get to the game? Could be an NCAA violation.

by **HB Pony Dad** » Sun Nov 23, 2008 10:54 am

mrydel 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

by **George S. Patton** » Sun Nov 23, 2008 1:12 pm

RednBlue11 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.

FSU Football player = Rhodes Scholar?

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