(S25) - PT 3 - Early Decisions

[ReverendOReily]

Ever since he was a young boy wrestling gators in the swamps of wherever Shrek is from Louisiana, Richard Leaking has been a big fan of the Stanford Cardinal. He was amazed that a world renowned school with such a rigorous academic program had an excellent academic program to match. You simply don't see the other top academic institutions in this country field such high quality football teams the way Stanford does; after all, how many Rose Bowls have Harvard or Massachusetts Institute of Technology won? That's right. None. Poor guys can't even qualify. Richard Leaking was a walk-on on the Stanford Cardinal football team, but he very quickly rose to the top of the depth chart, and by his final season at Stanford, he was a defensive captain in charge of shouting out random audible words with the best of them. Leaking actually did not even play linebacker in High School; he was two-way player who played fullback on offense, and strong safety on defense. Between the end of high school and the beginning of his first season at Stanford, however, he grew 4 inches and put on 35 pounds, which enabled him to switch from safety to linebacker with ease at the encouragement of his coaches. Leaking's hands had never been his strong suit, so he was glad to make the switch at the time.