(Watkins) believed he could play at Division I all along, ... and it worked out great for him. |
He had a cast on his arm, his clothes were torn and tattered, and he probably weighed 140 pounds, |
I found out there are a lot of scholarships available out there if you're a good student and, in some cases, willing to go out of state, |
I make no guarantees, but if I see a good athlete with good grades and test scores who really wants an education, and wants to play football, and is willing to go away from home, I try hard to make the fit. |
It takes a lot of time, but the reward comes almost every night when at least one of the guys calls me or e-mails me. I don't get a lot of sleep, but I'm happy. |
Seven years before we played on the same San Diego City College team and he was a 6-2, 230-pound beast. He was all muscle. I thought he'd gone on to college or something. |
The knock on me is I only get players into Timbuktu State or mostly black colleges in the South, but that's just not true, |
The landscaping will be one of the final things that will go in. You won't see any planting or anything of that nature until the latter part of the project. |
They are working on what's called the Oval Park, where that water feature is. |