“The thing I like about Prince is – the Bible says you enter into the kingdom as a little child,” Brown said, “and Prince is a big, strong, fast, athletic, one of the great athletes in the country in college football. But with all of that, there’s this humble, gentle spirit – childlike almost – about him”
- Not long before Prince Amukamara, the 2010 First-Team All-American cornerback from Nebraska, was drafted Thursday evening by the New York Giants with the 19th overall pick in the first round, Nebraska assistant coach Ron Brown gave Amukamara and Eric Hagg, one of Amukamara’s teammates, something to think about.
“‘Guys, you know what, it all looks great on the front end,’” Brown recounted for The Christian Post, “‘Always, it looks great on the front end, but 2-3 years down the road, it’s usually quite a different story. And so the question is, what’s your story going to be?
Is it going to be circumstance-based or circumstance free? Which means no matter what the circumstances are, in Christ, you are going to be a man of integrity. Which means, you can’t be talked out of things and you can’t be up and down and all over the place. It means you are rooted.’”
He went on to tell them the devil doesn’t change his schemes or game plan. He’s out to sidetrack them, or worse, with toys, prestige, pride, alcohol, girls or whatever it takes and it is us up to them to make the right choices.
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