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per Chicago Football Magazine:
Brock garnered only two Division I scholarship offers: Minnesota and Stanford. Again, outsiders pressured him to choose Stanford, where he could play in the same conference as Shane had. But his parents – both college athletes at the University of Nevada Las Vegas – encouraged Brock to choose his own path, prompting him to choose to play at Minnesota.
“Coming in (to high school) I was definitely in his shadow,” Brock acknowledges. “The comparisons were there, but they weren’t that bad. But thanks to my high school coach, my parents and my friends, I was never Shane’s little brother."
Yet, there were those who kept insisting that would always be the case. Never one to outwardly show any frustration over the comparisons or constantly finishing second to his brother in the foot races and video game battles at home, Brock let football speak for him.
"I think that's why Brock hits so hard on that football field – he's making up for when he was a child," Venita says, laughing. "I think that's why he's such a harder hitter. He had to be."
http://www.chicagofootball.com/2014...reen-brothers-road-to-the-nfl/a4j68ud/?page=1
Go Gophers!!
Brock garnered only two Division I scholarship offers: Minnesota and Stanford. Again, outsiders pressured him to choose Stanford, where he could play in the same conference as Shane had. But his parents – both college athletes at the University of Nevada Las Vegas – encouraged Brock to choose his own path, prompting him to choose to play at Minnesota.
“Coming in (to high school) I was definitely in his shadow,” Brock acknowledges. “The comparisons were there, but they weren’t that bad. But thanks to my high school coach, my parents and my friends, I was never Shane’s little brother."
Yet, there were those who kept insisting that would always be the case. Never one to outwardly show any frustration over the comparisons or constantly finishing second to his brother in the foot races and video game battles at home, Brock let football speak for him.
"I think that's why Brock hits so hard on that football field – he's making up for when he was a child," Venita says, laughing. "I think that's why he's such a harder hitter. He had to be."
http://www.chicagofootball.com/2014...reen-brothers-road-to-the-nfl/a4j68ud/?page=1
Go Gophers!!