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Stay in school kids!!!  Matt Leinart is staying at USC for a senior season despite winning the Heisman trophy last year and pretty much a lock for being the #1 pick in the draft. 

But..he is staying in school....risking injury and a ton of cash.  Congrats.  What an example. 

Well...he is only taking one class.  Ballroom dancing. 

Ballroom dancing.

Ballroom dancing.

Leinart and his girlfriend are taking ballroom dancing....the lone course on his USC schedule this fall.  No math.  No science.  No botany.  No Introduction to TV.  No golf.  No business law.  No communications.  Not even a P.E. class.  Ballroom dancing. 

But why?  He's got all the credits he needs to graduate.  And like I said, he's got a Heisman and would have had major cheese in his pocket if he went to the NFL.   So why go back to school...risking it all...for ballroom dancing?

I read somewhere that Leinart is a different kind of cat.  He likes the college lifestyle.  He lives in a brokedown apartment with his roomies, scrounging up some change to get some grub.  This is a guy who's more famous that nearly half of the NFL right now.  If he would have bolted....he'd be more famous that 75% of the league.  If he came out this past year...he could have been up the coast in San Francisco...or in beach lovely Miami [um, or Cleveland or Chicago].  He likes chillin' out and the laid back college feel.  Kind of reminds me of someone.  But who?

Ricky Williams.

Williams was the same kind of cat.  Like the expressive college atmosphere and didn't really care for the riches and fame that come with the NFL life.  We all know that from his little escapade this past year.  When Ricky entered the league...he did so in a wedding dress, wearing his helmet at interviews and blowing potsmoke rings at the establishment.  Then he abruptly quit on his team to spend time and money sleeping in a van in Australia [or was it India?].  Now his body is back in the NFL...but where is his mind and heart?

Trust me.  I'm not saying that Leinart will follow Ricky's path.  Leinart may just be an "aw-shucks" guy that just wants to stick with his girl in school for one more year and delay being an adult.  And going for an impressive 3rd straight National Championship is nothing to sneeze at either.  Nothing at all wrong with that.  But I guarantee this could throw a teeny flag up there to teams that may look to draft him next year.

At least he shouldn't have a problem staying eligible.

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• #1 Comment from monponsett 
  8/18/05 1:11 PM | Permalink

  I had to take a sole Human Sexual Awareness class one summer in order to get my doctorate..... and I was pregnant at the time.