So playing basketball after the football season was just really good for me every day . Getting better , staying in shape and , yeah , my mentality every day just to show up and do the same thing over and over again and just sticking through the process . And a little over a year ago I had back surgery .
The best advice I'd probably ever gotten was my basketball coach , freshman year , a life coach of mine just to never give up . Just because like , you've been through a lot of hard times with the recruiting process and like going through high school , not getting recruited as highly as I wanted to , um , just to never give up and trust God and everything will work out in the end , just trust the process . I mean , I played basketball because it's really good for offensive linemen for their feet and stuff because I mean , I was a bigger guy so obviously I can't move as well as the other fast guys .
I play offensive line for the University of Michigan football . The best advice I'd probably ever gotten was my basketball coach , freshman year , a life coach of mine just to never give up . Just because like , you've been through a lot of hard times with the recruiting process and like going through high school , not getting recruited as highly as I wanted to , um , just to never give up and trust God and everything will work out in the end , just trust the process .
So that put me out for over a year . So just , um , showing every day like rehab and trying to get better every , every day , even though , like , I couldn't go to a meeting or a practice or even playing games , like , just sticking to the process and trusting that I'd eventually come back and play again . I kind of got stuck in that COVID era thing .
And then if you need like help with your classes at like your tutor or anything , then you go to our academic center and get help with that . Take advantage of every opportunity . I think that in high school , like , I didn't know much about recruiting , like when I started doing it .
