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per CBS' profile on Garden City Community College:
Garden City HC Jeff Sims loves hungry. In 2007, Robert McField was kicked out of Minnesota after being convicted of armed robbery. He did five years in a St. Louis prison. Near the end of his sentence, his mother sent out 30 emails to coaches.
One responded -- Sims.
"I'm in an orange jump suit with handcuffs on," McField recalled. "I'm looking him in the face, 'You don't understand. I don't have anywhere else to go.'"
McField starred at Fort Scott, got a Division II scholarship to Pittsburg (Kan.) State. With the NFL in his future, the last play of McField's life turned out to be the catch of a two-point conversion pass to send a playoff game into overtime. A week later McField found out he had been playing with non-Hodgkin's lymphoma.
"Had a tumor that almost cut off my windpipe," he said.
Today, he is in remission, pursuing a master's doing motivational speaking.
"Coach Sims," McField said, "saved my life."
http://www.cbssports.com/collegefootball/feature/25535393/opportunity-usa
Go Gophers!!
Garden City HC Jeff Sims loves hungry. In 2007, Robert McField was kicked out of Minnesota after being convicted of armed robbery. He did five years in a St. Louis prison. Near the end of his sentence, his mother sent out 30 emails to coaches.
One responded -- Sims.
"I'm in an orange jump suit with handcuffs on," McField recalled. "I'm looking him in the face, 'You don't understand. I don't have anywhere else to go.'"
McField starred at Fort Scott, got a Division II scholarship to Pittsburg (Kan.) State. With the NFL in his future, the last play of McField's life turned out to be the catch of a two-point conversion pass to send a playoff game into overtime. A week later McField found out he had been playing with non-Hodgkin's lymphoma.
"Had a tumor that almost cut off my windpipe," he said.
Today, he is in remission, pursuing a master's doing motivational speaking.
"Coach Sims," McField said, "saved my life."
http://www.cbssports.com/collegefootball/feature/25535393/opportunity-usa
Go Gophers!!