@moscott
UF isn’t exactly a reach for me and I feel I could do better. I’m not lowering myself whatsoever. I simply want to get into the best school I can since I worked very hard my whole life for these numbers. As for the captain thing since you really want to know, no I wasn’t a captain for one game. We sometimes changed captains and I was on the rotation practically every week. I was our objectively best offensive and defensive lineman the whole junior year despite playing with a torn meniscus, a concussion, and whiplash during the course of the season. I could ask my coach tomorrow who was the most influential player last year and he’d say me or this one linebacker (I’m not trying to build myself up, I’m just stating what it was). Over the off season I lost a lot of fat (bad for a lineman) and tore my same meniscus again, so going into this year I’m not quite the player I was. I literally have no padding left (due to the two tears) between my knee, can’t get close to a 90 degree bend, and feel burning pain from my cartilage/bones rubbing every time I run. Despite that, I still start as a lineman and I really can’t explain to you why I’m not a recurring captain now. I guess my physical abilities have fled due to the injuries and weight loss so my coach doesn’t see me fit for the job. I still humbly consider myself influential on the team and would say the only thing I’ve lost from last year was my physical abilities (due to a personal choice of weight loss and an unctrollable and painful injury).
I hope that did not come off arrogant by the way, I was just stating the facts. I did write some of my essay on football, hence the lengthy explanation haha. It’s an area that has a plethora of both negative and positive influences in my life.