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“I had to mature a little bit,” said Cobb, referring to the difference between his first two years at Minnesota and his last two. “I had too much fun off the field.”
As the Gophers were preparing for the 2012 Texas Bowl, Cobb was pondering his own future. He had one carry as a sophomore and watched classmate Donnell Kirkwood rush for nearly 1,000 yards that year.
Would he stay at Minnesota and work to be the best player he could be or would he take the easy route and transfer to a new school and start all over?
“I thought about transferring,” said Cobb. “I thought about it every day. But luckily I had good people around me, especially Nate Griffin. He is the main reason I am here today. A lot of people do not know it, but he pushed me and texted me every day. I owe him a lot.”
Nate Griffin is Minnesota’s offensive quality control assistant. He played college football at Idaho, but had his career cut short because of an injury, so he could relate to where Cobb’s emotions were.
“I told him that whatever you decide, it needs to be your choice,” said Griffin. “It cannot be a rash decision because you are angry. You need to think about it. You can listen to your family and get input from everybody but it needs to be your choice and what you want to do because you are the one who will have to live it.
“I told him that if he decided to stay here that the road is long and hard and it may not work out the way you wanted to, but at the end of the day you stayed and stuck it out. It is not going to be easy. You know you are a long shot. You got a lot of things you need to change.”
http://www.gophersports.com/sports/m-footbl/spec-rel/111914aaa.html
Go Gophers!!
“I had to mature a little bit,” said Cobb, referring to the difference between his first two years at Minnesota and his last two. “I had too much fun off the field.”
As the Gophers were preparing for the 2012 Texas Bowl, Cobb was pondering his own future. He had one carry as a sophomore and watched classmate Donnell Kirkwood rush for nearly 1,000 yards that year.
Would he stay at Minnesota and work to be the best player he could be or would he take the easy route and transfer to a new school and start all over?
“I thought about transferring,” said Cobb. “I thought about it every day. But luckily I had good people around me, especially Nate Griffin. He is the main reason I am here today. A lot of people do not know it, but he pushed me and texted me every day. I owe him a lot.”
Nate Griffin is Minnesota’s offensive quality control assistant. He played college football at Idaho, but had his career cut short because of an injury, so he could relate to where Cobb’s emotions were.
“I told him that whatever you decide, it needs to be your choice,” said Griffin. “It cannot be a rash decision because you are angry. You need to think about it. You can listen to your family and get input from everybody but it needs to be your choice and what you want to do because you are the one who will have to live it.
“I told him that if he decided to stay here that the road is long and hard and it may not work out the way you wanted to, but at the end of the day you stayed and stuck it out. It is not going to be easy. You know you are a long shot. You got a lot of things you need to change.”
http://www.gophersports.com/sports/m-footbl/spec-rel/111914aaa.html
Go Gophers!!