I have family up there and it's close to home. It's a great program, that's moving on up. It has great facilities and a 100 percent graduation rate for football players.

All the hard work paid off. I can't wait to get started.

All the work paid off. Waking up at 6 a.m. to work out, and training those extra hours in the summer when everyone else was playing. It paid off. I can't wait to start working out with the [his new BC teammates].

The family had lost their home, everything in the flooding in southern New Orleans where they (once) lived.

I walk in here this morning, and I'm leaving my family at home, and I'm hoping and praying that I'll be able to walk out of here and not be carried out.

We've had this family plot since 1968 with a monument ready for him to come home.