Tag: Duke University

Good Enough Mother has decided she wants to go back to college. Not to learn or earn another degree. I just want to go back as an athlete – with a scholarship!

See earlier in the week, I escorted my very tall nephew to Duke University where he is a top prospect for their football team. I know, I know, when you think of Duke you think of basketball, but they have a football program too and one they are very serious about rebuilding. The coaches want Josh to be a part of that.

So off we went, leaving a ridiculously crowded JetBlue terminal at 8:30 bound for Raleigh Durham (RDU airport was a welcome change; it made JFK look like the floor of the New York Stock Exchange during a bear rally).

Our instructions were to meet at the football building as soon as we got to campus, which we did… after Josh’s auntie took a thousand pictures of him in the parking lot. Over the course of the day, Josh and I were carted all over the breathtakingly beautiful campus. At one point, we drove by admissions where about two dozen young people were waiting in the sweltering heat. “What’s going on over there?” I asked, as we zipped by, our padded bottoms cozy on the golf cart’s pristine leather seats. “Oh those are the students taking the tour.” Ohhhhhh.. The students who are going to pay through the nose to go to school there. That was my first real indication that Josh was going to be special to them.