Bump and I were both happily stunned yesterday afternoon when Sportscenter told us one of the 32 Rhodes Scholarships had been awarded to a Florida State football player.
A defensive back.
You’d expect this kind of thing from an offensive lineman at an Ivy. But a third-season starter at a real football school?
You might also expect it from a pre-med student who’s graduating in two-and-a-half years. A guy who “won an award for his research on the metabolic profile of stem and cancer cells and studied last summer in London” or who “developed a program on diet and exercise for children at a Seminole Tribe reservation in Florida.” Not sure how he found time for all of this while serving on “many university committees” and playing Division I football.
I’m guessing that if any of the other candidates had to miss the first half of the game against Maryland for the final interview, it just meant they had to tune in late or arrive in the stands during the third quarter. I assume those other candidates are not weighing studying medical anthropology at Oxford against signing with the NFL.
According to the Seminoles’ website, this starting defensive back/pre-med major also played the lead role in his high school’s production of “Fiddler on the Roof.”
Dear Myron Rolle,
For the sake of balance in the universe, I hope you are at least an assshole. Or maybe not much fun at a party. A bad driver, perhaps? Please give the rest of us something so we can feel better about ourselves.
-Love Lumpyheadsmom
P.S. How many of your teammates thought you were going to be a “Road” scholar and would only be able to play home games from now on?
I agree. This kid is amazing in about 50 different ways.
Maybe he was Mother Teresa in his last life.
Too old?
Ghandi?
Simon Zealot?