>> Well, I love the diversity, I love the size of the school.
I'm a local guy, I'm from Anne Arundel County grew up in Annapolis, Maryland,
graduated from Northeast High School.
While I was at Northeast high school I, you know I was involved in sports,
I was student government president, involved in,
I was at thespian, so I had a pretty varied life.
Didn't really think about playing football in college, wasn't really thinking
about that, it just kind of happened.
And I think, you know working with some really teachers at the time, and good role models
at my high school, they shared information with me and it just kind of lead me to the path
of Maryland, and, what I liked about Maryland was just the size.
I love being around different types of people because I can learn from them.
And, of course you know the academics was good, a very good coach,
my coach was Bobby Ross, and they had a good team.
You know, I, alluded to Boomer [inaudible] earlier
in the conversation that he was a quarterback, so,
>> You did.
>> Yes, yes, he's someone who obviously he's done very well for himself,
and had a fabulous NFL career, as well as done some great things for a, cystic fibrosis.
So we have those type of individuals that, I was able to interact with, and that helped me.
So I think, just being able to give back and watching others, and Boomer's just one of many.
During college in my, fourth year of playing football, I ruptured an achilles tendon, and,
that was early in the year, so I'm out basically until the next year.
>> Mmm.
>> Actually I didn't, I wasn't, I didn't actually start running again until like April.
So literally from September to April, no sports.
You know, so I was just basically a student at that time, so it gave me,
a segment of time during my day where I could do other types of things, so I could focus totally
on my academics, and I graduated consequently, in that spring.
And I was able to come back and play football, but, I got drafted the following year,
by the Kansas City Chiefs, and, I had a short NFL career, my first pass that I caught
in my NFL career, I run it down and out catch the ball in the sideline, and couldn't get up.
So I popped a groin muscle, so I'm thinking to myself, you know what,
this might not be the right thing for me, you know an achilles, a groin muscle, and,
and to be honest with you I didn't really like pro football that much.
It's just one of those things, it was kind of weird, I mean, what I didn't like about it was,
the difference between college and pros back then, it's a business.
And that's what you learn early on, it's completely a business and, you're the widget.