A rare Saturday post...

I wanted to write something in retrospect about college sports and much of what people think today. With college basketball players continually going one and done to make the big bucks in the NBA and all the problems with off the field/court discipline, I want to focus on something great. The NCAA has great commercials about their athletes becoming professionals in areas that are not sports like business, law, and medicine. I would like to congratulate Myron Rolle and the Florida State Seminole football program.

Today, Rolle (one of the top defensive players on the Seminole football team) missed the beginning of his game versus Maryland. Rolle was not suspended, he was not injured, and he was not on academic probation. Rolle truly lived up to the student-athlete name...student being first. Bowden agreed with Rolle's decision and therefore Rolle was in Birmingham, Alabama to interview for a Rhodes Scholarship. Rolle was awarded the scholarship and hopes to become a neurosurgeon. That's right...out of Free Shoe University comes a football player who wants to be a neurosurgeon. Rolle has a 3.75 GPA in exercise science and going for is Masters of Public Administration. He has studied stem-cell research at FSU and is now making the decision between Oxford and the NFL.

So hats off to all the student-athletes like Rolle, at school for the education not for the preparation for the pros. It is great to see someone win the Rhodes Scholarship and an ACC football game in the same evening.