I was excited to hear Mijo say that his lineman friend who is graduating from Crockett might be joining him at Southwestern University. This was Mijo's wrestling sparring partner his Junior and Senior year and they were pretty close since they met when Mijo was a Sophomore at Crockett. The kid is near the top of his class, last I heard he had around a 4.0gpa, so it should be no problem for him to succeed at the school. He wants to continue playing football as well, and this would probably be his best shot. A couple years ago, Mijo was thinking this kid could play at a D1 school possibly, he is 6' 2" and moves very well, but he has been obsessed with losing weight, and is now walking around at less than 200 pounds. This makes for a very light weight lineman, Mijo right now tips the scale at a beefy 273 pounds and of course, all things being similar, heavier is going to win most of the time when it comes to pushing each other.
Today was a good day for the kid though. He went to visit with both his parents who Wife and I like, they always come around and hug us and thank us for Mijo being such a good friend to their son. They just loved our boy. He also took the head coach which I thought was a cool move, and Mijo said he went and joined his tour, hanging with them when he was shown a short video showing the schemes they prefer to run and a tour of their facilities. Cougar coach thought the school was very nice and the place just reminded him of Crockett with its cozy feel. The kid's parents told the Pirate coaches giving the tour to expect their boy in the fall, they were sold. It also helps that his mom had told us that two of her sisters had graduated from Southwestern, so the family is a legacy of sorts.
Mijo has forged his own path and I think it has been great, now that football season is over, he is over there with all the husky linemen boys hanging out in their dorms playing video games. I think the campus is pretty chill, with only 1900 kids, but if there were to be any trouble, who wants to mess around with the bigger of the football players who seem to be a friendly unit that sticks together with their Thick Man Thursdays at Whataburger and their constant off season workouts? I like that this is the company he keeps. This new Cougar kid could fit right in, if he is willing to bulk up a bit, otherwise he might have to think about converting to possibly a defensive end, or maybe a tight end.
It would be exciting to me anyways that Mijo becomes an anchor and a steady stream of Cougars started following him to SU. They might not be the best team and I do think they're getting better, but the education will be a good one, and that is the reason people go to college.
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