172- A Comeback Story w/ Maurice Clarett
Barbell Shrugged
Doug Larson
4.7 • 2.8K Ratings
🗓️ 8 April 2015
⏱️ 50 minutes
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Summary
Maurice Clarett is a former American football running back. During his freshman year at Ohio State University in 2002, he helped lead the Buckeyes to a national championship. In a widely unexpected move, Clarett was drafted on the first day of the 2005 NFL Draft with the final pick of the 3rd round (#101 overall) by the Denver Broncos. He is well known for unsuccessfully challenging the NFL's draft eligibility rulesrequiring a player to be three years removed from high school and for his tumultuous life outside of football, including his dismissal from Ohio State, several arrests, and later, imprisonment.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, this is Rich Froning. You're listening to Barbell Shrug. For the video version go to BarbellShrug.com |
| 0:14.7 | Welcome to Barbell Shrug. I'm Mike Bletsup sitting here with Chris Moore and our new co-host |
| 0:21.0 | AJ Roberts |
| 0:23.0 | And we have CTP behind the camera along with Charlotte. We have traveled up to Cormac, Ohio to the Arnold Sports Festival |
| 0:30.3 | As we try to do most years |
| 0:32.3 | And we're sitting here with Maurice Claret. He played for Ohio State, Denver Broncos and |
| 0:41.6 | Highest National Championship at the Ohio State. Yeah, I'm gonna watch them. I was still playing ball. I heard Ohio State football is pretty good |
| 0:48.4 | They won a championship again this year. Yeah, I had a Warren Maurice. I had a time on not much of a sports fan myself |
| 0:54.3 | I was like you start talking football. I'll just nod |
| 0:57.2 | Okay, I gotta do it the barber shop |
| 1:06.0 | You have a really amazing story |
| 1:09.0 | You played football you went pro and then you spent some time in prison and then |
| 1:15.0 | Came back out of that and made some huge changes in a really thriving now |
| 1:20.8 | I guess just take it away |
| 1:22.8 | Where did you because you were obviously |
| 1:27.4 | With your high school career at Ohio's part really big time you enter Ohio State as a |
| 1:31.9 | Blue ship prospect, right? Yes, so interdough. How stay will I |
| 1:35.7 | Want to congratulate you at high school. I was the number one rated football player in the world |
| 1:40.8 | Yeah, so just we know that's not the easiest thing to accomplish |
| 1:44.4 | Yeah, just I always say humbly say you know, I was I was blessed. We was on a real good team. I had a real great coach |
| 1:50.8 | But anything that you could want to accomplish in the intergarse high school football accomplice ran for a bunch of yards and budget touchdowns |
| 1:57.6 | And at that moment in that moment of time it was it was a big deal on how because I was the biggest thing in football |
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