This is a story jokers should be talking about.
If all goes to plan on the field this fall, Florida State safety Myron Rolle will produce the kind of season that catapults him into the first round of next spring’s NFL draft.
If all goes to plan off the field, Rolle will be faced with a vexing yet welcome decision: NFL locker room or Oxford University classroom?
Rolle, a preseason All-ACC and All-America candidate, is an astounding anomaly in a sport synonymous with low graduation rates and dumbed-down majors. He’s a 3.75 pre-med student who will finish his undergraduate degree in just two-and-a-half years; a National Leadership Honor Society inductee; the recipient of a $4,000 research grant for his work studying human mesenchymal stem cells and the facilitator of a health and living program at a charter school run by the Seminole Tribe of Florida.
Just sayin. I haven’t rooted for Florida State since Charlie Ward, but Rolle might be able to get me to toss a couple granules of ‘hope so’ their way on Saturday afternoons.
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I know that’s right! I am a FAMUAN and I can remember us only rooting hard for FSU when Charlie (or Deion and Sammie) were running things. I have a feeling there will be lots of chants for Myron Rolle “across the tracks” at FAM this Fall.
Hip. The NFL hasn’t had a Rhodes scholar since Pat Haden.
Pat Haden. Damn, what a joke. The Rams got rid of Shack Harris AND Ron Jaworski and kept that dud.
Joy, Imo revoke your rattler card if I ever hear you cheering for some Criminole. (Okay, Charlie Ward gets a pass because his parents were rattlers.) Nevermind the fact that I married a woman from FSU.
Must be a million Rolles in South Florida. I went to school with about 5 of them.