Tip to BBS, Robert Mathis martriculated
All the while, he was back in Huntsville working on earning his degree. He went back to school in 2006, completing the final 15 hours of undergraduate work one class at a time in the offseason.
“You never know what life holds for you in the future,” Mathis said. “A play here, a play there and it’s all snatched away from you. You have to have a safety net.”
If Mathis wasn’t inspiring enough as an NFL star, his legacy at Alabama A&M has perhaps been cemented by returning to school to get his degree.
“He didn’t leave the school and said to heck with the studies,” A&M coach Anthony Jones said. “We knew he was going to be drafted but he stayed in good academic standing, which is very, very important.
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