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Article: OPTION ROUTE LOCAL GRADS LAUD JUNIOR COLLEGES.(SPORTS)
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- The Cincinnati Post (Cincinnati, OH)
- Article date:
- February 6, 1996
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Byline: Richard Skinner Post staff reporter
Low grades cost Moeller High School's Troy Tuck a Division I college football scholarship coming out of high school in 1994.
It left him with few choices for his future: go to a smaller school and play football; sit out his first year at a Division I school and pay his own way; or go to work.
''I wanted to play Division I football,'' Tuck said.
Moeller head coach Steve Klonne suggested to Tuck, a standout linebacker on Moeller's 1993 Division I state runner-up team, that he take a look at junior colleges, something that few area prep players consider.
''I didn't know anything about ...